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I have been having discussions with Bob Koch and other members of DPETCA regarding the future direction of the organization. One disclosure point I need to provide up front is this site (P15-d24 & Pilot-house.com) has no official connection with DPETCA other than providing this complementary forum for the club and it's members. Second I own Pilot-House. com and it is not directly associated with DPETCA other then the common interest in Dodge trucks. The reason I bring this up is DPETCA is incorporated as non-profit organization and this site is not. Because of this their may be some issues to address if changes are made to DPETCA. Currently DPETCA is like being in neutral, engine is running but no direction forward or back. The recent recession has had it toll on these types of organizations. The question is what do the members want to do with DPETCA? I will post a poll so we can get an idea on the direction. And please post your comments/ideas as this discussion is wide open to other ideas. 1. One choice is leave it as is and don't do anything. Continue to collect memberships and maybe we will get additional interest later. Their are ongoing expenses the club has such as maintaining the non=profit incorporation, and domain and hosting fees that will need to be paid annually. 2. Let it expire. Instead of renewing the non-profit paperwork let it expire, then figure out how to redistribute any assets (I'm sure their is some legal guidelines to follow) and let the web site and domain expire at the end of their contracts. 3. If number 2 is chosen, an option is to move the web site content over to this site so it is not lost. Pilot-house.com will continue into the future as I'm building additional content for the site. 4. Recruit additional volunteers (As in a Board of Directors) to set a new focus and direction for DPETCA and a plan to implement it moving forward. 5. Create a new a Pilot-House.com "club" as subscription service here which would provide additional functionality for members like individual blogs and additional online storage capacity for documenting their projects. Also at as a clearing house for organic activities like meets, BBQs or social events. 6. You have a better idea then post it in the thread! Let's get some discussion started on this so we can agree where we want to go!