If you don't have members who are paying, and they leave after the school year without getting current, that is as much the chapter's fault as well as the individual for allowing that situation to go on that long without resolution. If you put someone on a payment plan arrangement, as a chapter/executive committee, you need to be willing to immediately suspend a member as soon as a payment window is missed, without exception.
One idea we used at a chapter around here was to lock the members door at night, and they had to sleep in the chapter room, or at another location outside the house. After 30 days of this, we then cleaned out the room and suspended the member of all rights and priveleges until payment was made.
Some people think that is such a hard line to take on a "brother" (or sister) - but, the reality of the situation is reversed - what kind of "brother" will not be current, and force the chapter to carry his delinquency on their backs. Plus, don't members almost always take an oath/commitment to pay their bills on time?
------------------
Don't be your brother's keeper; rather, be your brother's Brother.
|
Threaded Mode