Originally Posted by
RED DOG
Just FYI - On behalf of this Crossfire event, Gary Wemple (Valk) requested some financial support / assistance for these group meals from CICCI. His request was quickly and firmly rejected! The most recently available CICCI financial information (from June 2016) indicated there was $6,783.71 remaining in the CICCI treasury. It seems, however, that the CICCI Board of Directors has decided they would rather donate those remaining monies (which of course all came from Crossfire owners) to a charity rather than use it to provide any support for this (or any other) Crossfire event . . . Go figure . . .
While there is plenty I can say about my personal experience with CICCI . . . enough said for here. The Board of Directors is planning to shut down CICCI by the end of February 2018.
Seems really strange that CICCI would disapprove of using the remaining funds to support upcoming major events in 2018. It should be easy for them to allocate those funds to an event leader in 2018 and then provide a posting to all members where & to whom the monies were distributed. That way we know the specific distribution of the monies and which individual is responsible for using the money appropriately for event functions. They could do this all by the deadline they have for closing CICCI in FEB.
As a member of CICCI, I personally object to not having a say in how the remaining funds get disbursed.