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<p>[quote user="IRONROOSTER"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">betamax</div> <div class="quote-content">The budgets are published, and are available. They are part of the financial documents, if you look. I just saw 2016, since the reports for 2017 haven't been completed yet. The proposed 2017 budget is also in that document.</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>What they show are high level summaries only.</p> <p>Paul</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>What specific information do you want?   Generally you can figure out how most of the money was spent by looking at form 990s.   Which are available to all members, and probably the public.  </p> <p>Go to the NMRA website, click on the search box in the top right hand corner and type "IRS".  First result should be the Form 990s from the past 8 or so years.</p> <p>Not publishing in the magazine is called good business, why waste the advertising space on something that can be published on the website?  It costs money to use up space in the magazine, which most readers I would image would not care about, in fact would probably complain to the board that they are paying for useless information that could be placed elsewhere and available at no cost. </p> <p>If they were to publish the budget in the magazine, members would complain that they have to buy the magazine to see the budget.   </p> <p>Dues increases are explained accurately in the budget, and are only allowed to be reactionary.  They cannot be made in advance of expected cost increases, only as a result of past actual costs.  The most recent increase in dues was attributed to inflation.   The delta between 2012 and 2018 being $3.94.  Actual membership cost increase was $3.</p> <p>Inflation is only one factor and is indirectly related to the increase in costs of running an organization.</p> <p>Edit:</p> <p><a href="https://www.nmra.org/members/presidents-car/february-2016-matter-cost">https://www.nmra.org/members/presidents-car/february-2016-matter-cost</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
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