10 Things that I would like to Accomplish at GSLBAA
Jeremy R.C. Cox, Board Member at Large on Monday, April 13, 2009
1. Increase the Membership with emphasis on Technicians.
2. Hold a Quarterly Business Breakfast to promote Business Aviation to local Business Leaders.
3. Increase the Membership Benefits to include: ‘Loss of Licence Insurance’, Discount at Flight Safety/Simu-flite/Sim-Com, Benefits Credit Card, Hotel Discounts, Jet Fuel Discount through CAA, etc.
4. Create a ‘Preferred Member Vendors Directory’ both in hard-copy and electronic. This will help our much needed vendor member companies to promote themselves, and to also remind operator members that they should try and spend their money within the association.
5. Create a Monthly Email Newsletter (Notices-News-Views-Issues-Birthdays-Jobs- For Sales, etc.)
6. Organize a formal Association Christmas Dinner/Dance on a Saturday night near Christmas.
7. Organize a Tri-State Business Aviation Association Fly-In.
8. Organize a Tri-State Business Aviation Association Meeting (remember KCBAA and GSLBAA at Tan Tara in 2002.)
9. Organize a GSLBAA Family Outing (Cardinals, Zoo, Science Centre, whatever.)
10. Create a Presentation on Business Aviation as a Career, for presentation to Local Schools.
The Future of the Greater St Louis Business Aviation Association
The Greater St. Louis Business Aviation Association (GSLBAA) was formed as a way to better the future of the business aviation industry, at the local level, right here in the St. Louis region.
As a member of GSLBAA, you belong to a unique organization found in very few cities across the U.S. and one that should allow you to grow professionally with other pilots and associates in the aviation industry. GSLBAA is one of the oldest local professional aviation organizations in the country. Many other cities have patterned their organizations after us.
GSLBAA is intended to have a voice at the local, state, and regional level, allowing the organization to be more proactive, and effective, when issues are presented. A major goal of this organization is to be more in-tune to what is going on at the local level, and therefore, have the opportunity and resources to act in a more efficient and effective manner. The resources and industry positions of our members GSLBAA to achieve many goals in the future when issues are presented that can adversely, or positively, affect general and business aviation causes.
As it stands now the membership of GSLBAA sits at just over 200 people, which is down from around 240 people last year. GSLBAA meeting attendance runs between 35 to 80 members. We generally have a monthly luncheon meeting for 9 months of the year and the charity golf tournament highlighting the end of meetings until Fall. The attendance in golf tournament has gone down in the recent years, which might be a reflection of the economy, or it might be a reflection of the changing demographics of the membership. Either way it is vital for the Association to gauge this, understand this, and then to act accordingly, hence this Blog/Message-board.
Please use this space to input your own feelings, thoughts, ideas and suggestions on what GSLBAA means to you and what you would like it to mean for you. This is your opportunity to better define our organizations benefits and goals.
As the lottery say’s: “you can’t win, if you don’t play”, so lay it all out here so we can get this Association to the next higher level.
Sincerely,
John Henke
Vice President
As a member of GSLBAA, you belong to a unique organization found in very few cities across the U.S. and one that should allow you to grow professionally with other pilots and associates in the aviation industry. GSLBAA is one of the oldest local professional aviation organizations in the country. Many other cities have patterned their organizations after us.
GSLBAA is intended to have a voice at the local, state, and regional level, allowing the organization to be more proactive, and effective, when issues are presented. A major goal of this organization is to be more in-tune to what is going on at the local level, and therefore, have the opportunity and resources to act in a more efficient and effective manner. The resources and industry positions of our members GSLBAA to achieve many goals in the future when issues are presented that can adversely, or positively, affect general and business aviation causes.
As it stands now the membership of GSLBAA sits at just over 200 people, which is down from around 240 people last year. GSLBAA meeting attendance runs between 35 to 80 members. We generally have a monthly luncheon meeting for 9 months of the year and the charity golf tournament highlighting the end of meetings until Fall. The attendance in golf tournament has gone down in the recent years, which might be a reflection of the economy, or it might be a reflection of the changing demographics of the membership. Either way it is vital for the Association to gauge this, understand this, and then to act accordingly, hence this Blog/Message-board.
Please use this space to input your own feelings, thoughts, ideas and suggestions on what GSLBAA means to you and what you would like it to mean for you. This is your opportunity to better define our organizations benefits and goals.
As the lottery say’s: “you can’t win, if you don’t play”, so lay it all out here so we can get this Association to the next higher level.
Sincerely,
John Henke
Vice President
