Thinking outside the box here why not lobby to use some of the 10 million dollar ntc trail fund money for paid representation of a legally trained professional on matters of off road recreation rather than expect a part time volunteer enthusiast member of BCORMA to take care of the future of dirt biking in BC
K
the executive director of BCORMA is already a paid position, last I heard something like 70K plus expenses.
The entire board of directors is all part time volunteers, ie President, VP etc
NTC funding has very strict restrictions, what you propose would not come near to the criteria of NTC funding. Something I have learned about counting on any kind of government funding is, YOU CAN'T COUNT ON GOVERNMENT FUNDING. Besides who wants our representatives to be beholding to the government?
What do I think you ask? (oh you didn't ask, I will tell you anyhow)
BCORMA has some money (not much) but is putting all (well most) its eggs in one basket, in the form of wages for an executive director. This is not a bad thing but we all expect that BCORMA does everything for every off road rider, right? We all have real jobs out here and we all know we cant be everything to everybody, we all get support from someone or somewhere else and those support people get paid too. As a former insider now looking in from the outside, the executive director is not getting the support he needs, he pretty much works on his own.
What about the rest of the BCORMA BoD's, they could do the support work you ask? Thats unlikely as they are the executive directors boss, they already volunteer their time to sit on the BCORMA Board. Whats more is that all those who sit on the BCORMA board come from their own club or association where they volunteer their time on that board and probable are volunteering on other projects. There is no way that we could expect our own representatives we send to BCORMA to do even more volunteer work.
BCORMA is political in nature, they have to deal with politicians and government bureaucrats. You can't get much more political than that? All I ever hear from off road riders it "I don't like the politics, so I don't support xyz association/club" BCORMA has, had and will continue to have a very difficult uphill battle. Presently BCORMA is operating more like a club than the association they claim to be. BCORMA has spread itself too thin by believing they are the
only association that can do anything for off road riders. BCORMA has alienated many of its member clubs over the past few years, they need to learn why and what to do about it, the get all the clubs back into the fold. They might have to eat a little crow (I eat lots of it, you get use to the taste)
What would I do if I were king? Oh right I was king for a couple of years.........Its not a one man job, it requires a dedicated group of people with a clear vision and a road map. COMMUNICATION do I need to say more?
T