At the 2009 Fall director’s meeting a modification to the member registration was passed. This modification was in response to a need to better define when a member becomes a non-member. This modification stipulates that membership in an MO is to run from April 1 to March 31. If you don’t renew your application then you become a [I forget the term they used I’ll call it dormant] dormant member after 12 months as dormant you become a non-member and your personal information (address, birth date etc.) are wiped from the CMS. Your membership number stays as does your training and operations records. If you subsequently rejoin you cannot use your old member number. There was no specific provision in the motion to deal with extending your membership. IE in January you update your membership to March 31 of the following year. (I think it might have been better to specify that membership is for a maximum of say 14 months and is to terminate on March 31. This would have made it easy to see that membership needs to be renewed every Feb-March.) These are from my notes, the policy manual changes and meeting minutes should be consulted for the details.
December 18, 2009
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I do not understand “If you subsequently rejoin you cannot use your old member number.”, and need to know the rational. To me, a member number designates the person, and must be re-used for that one person, no matter how often he/she retires and rejoins CASARA. Personal information (not training and operations records) will be deleted when a member is deleted, but will be re-entered when a member rejoins.
Comment by Bill Dunn — December 23, 2009 @ 21:09 |
It’s my belief the member number always remains the same for a volunteer, retired, re-instated, etc. Creating a new number seems unnecessary.
Comment by airsar — December 23, 2009 @ 22:33 |