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The housing fund was started a long time ago with the ask every alum for a few dollars and it built up quite well, a bunch of chapters used it and abused it like said before, and now after a couple of houses got bailed out recently from debt, there is no money. (that and collections for AMFs and insurance aren't at 100% yet)
Kevin Meyaux is doing ALOT to get the collections % up there, he's raised them i think about 10% now so their in the high 80-low 90%s in the past year or two, which makes alot more money for TKE.
there's also talk about when the TEF gets realigned very soon, it will have a chapter focus instead of an international focus. i.e. your alum gives $100, $100 goes to the chapter that he wants it to go to in the form of scholarship, programming, housing, support that kinda stuff for that chapter instead of international base.
Getting pretty close to HQ this past year or two, there's alot that their doing, but when you look at 270+ different chapters that all need help, and you look at the support staff, there's no possible way. BUT THEY ARE WORKING ON IT.
the new idea is to really push provinces. you got a GPA and hopefully a few PAs that are already within a few hours of your chapters, we boost the number of volunteers and get them trained in the right areas, it'll do alot more good than hiring another person for staff or a loan on a house.
the Grand Council and HQ are working really hard to get things changed, in the RLCs they are finding out alot of what undergrads want, problem is, if we don't tell them that there's a problem, it's hard for them to find out. i.e. visits, when a CMC comes around, most chapters hide their problems to look better, and so the CMC doesn't see the problem and can't address it.
basically, if there's something you want, tactfully tell HQ you want it. it'll go alot farther than yelling or namecalling.
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