SWATA Dues Unchanged for 7 years!

What does the Executive Board do in their meetings at the Annual Meeting?

A couple of the (many) things we do in the course of these meetings is review the last few years' expenditures and revenues, approve a budget, and then set the SWATA Member dues for the year.

The budget process takes about 4 or 5 hours. The Finance Committee reviews previous years' expenses and revenues and then prepares and presents a budget to the Board. The Board reviews the Finance Committee's report and (often) makes minor revisions to accommodate SWATA's overall goals and anticipated activities for the upcoming year approving the budget.

Without getting into detail (although we have details for days if you want them), the Board also voted on your District Dues for the upcoming year (2008-2009) in Corpus. This year, we voted to set District dues at $90, which means that your District dues have not changed since the Membership set that amount at the 2001 Annual Meeting. Thus, your District dues have not increased since 2001. The last several SWATA Executive Boards (going back before my time) have worked hard to increase Membership value without increasing Member costs, and I think they (we) have been successful.

As a reminder, your District dues are part of your NATA dues that you pay in December. The NATA portion is $150. Of the District portion ($90) $40 goes to the District (SWATA) and $50 goes to pay your membership dues to the state associations (TSATA and AATA).

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