Public Fields

[ronlock at comcast.net]

Agree, having such procedures in your by-laws is appropriate.
I believe as of the 2003 charter year, AMA was strongly encouraging
(or requiring?) new club charters to include that kind of thing.

There is a sample on the AMA web site document list.  

My club has procedures, happily, they are un-tested.

Later, Ron Lockhart
> I can tell you from firsthand experience in another endeavor, that you 
> had better have your club by-laws in total order before denying 
> admittance, or having to eject a member.
> If you need more specific info, feel free to contact me off list.
> Bill Glaze
> 
> Weimer, Claude wrote:
> 
> >I have a question to all that have a city or county field that is managed by a 
> club.  Have you ever had to remove a troublemaker from your club and not allow 
> them to fly at the site?  Our club is in a city park and the site is leased to 
> the club but we have allowed nonmembers to purchase field permits and fly 
> without being a club member.  We are going to change the rules this coming year 
> and there are some people that are not going to be allowed in the club.  I would 
> like to know if anyone has experienced this problem and how it went.
> > Thanks Claude Weimer
> >	Omaha NE
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: ronlock at comcast.net [mailto:ronlock at comcast.net]
> >Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 1:21 PM
> >To: discussion at nsrca.org
> >Subject: Re: Public Fields
> >
> >Our club has a no cost lease for a county field.
> >The lease agreement provides for the club to provide
> >insurance, management and supervision of flying related
> >activities, to include layout of parking, pit, fly, no
> >fly areas, frequency control, flight line
> >procedures, etc.  In short- the normally desired stuff.
> >
> >To have authority comensurate, we asked that the agreement
> >specify that all flyers be memebers of AMA, and our local club.
> >We wanted that to help avoid the sort of problems Gray Fowler
> >noted.
> >
> >The county provides a rough cut of the entire field a few
> >times a year, sprays for mosquitos, and helps (but not enough)
> >to maintain a dirt/gravel/wood chiip road.  The club does
> >everything else, including runway cutting.
> >
> >Later, Ron Lockhart
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