Submitted by: Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana
To amend the Credentials Section of the Blue Book of Basic Documents, Membership Dues and Procedures for Registration as follows:
| Current Wording | Proposed Amendment | If adopted, will read |
| The National Board of Directors must obtain approval from the National Council whenever a planned dues increase will result in dues increasing more than a total of 25% in any one triennium. | The National Board of Directors must obtain approval from the National Council whenever a planned dues increase will result in dues increasing more than a total of |
The National Board of Directors must obtain approval from the National Council whenever a planned dues increase will result in dues increasing more than a total of 15% in any one triennium. |
Rationale of the originating council, National Council Session Advisory Team, and National Board can be found in the Alert on pgs. 20-21. Download the Alert here: 58th_National_Council_Session_Alert
In a world struggling to afford food, ANY increase in dues will discourage girls from joining, however, this proposal seems fair. The national board should NOT be allowed to raise dues without the consent of the membership
This may be outside of scope but someone should amend this to have a dollar amount increase, not a percentage ($15 instead of 15%, for example). Eventually the dues are going to get high enough to warrant this.
Any increase when people are struggling financially would definitely deter joining/renewal, but I do agree that the lowered percentage is a step in the right direction.
Obviously GSUSA needs to increase the dues, so they can increase their salaries… CEO alone makes nearly a million dollars that is off the back and the hard work of our children. They bust their butts to give money and give money and give money to the GSUSA and, for me, GSGLA. It gets harder and harder to see the program I once loved turn into a corporate machine that pats itself on the bac, during the annual meeting and can’t answer any simple questions about why they are continue to get astronomical raises while they fire the local staff that helps the leaders and troops on a day to day basis while asking us to donate and our daughters to sell more products for less exciting rewards. I find it hard to continue to stay peppy and ask the troop families and girls to continue to feed the corporate ladder….