Brian
You’re absolutly right, we got a book in black and white. But at what cost? Last year, we had 144 racers who took points in the CSC. I assume that in order to get points, you needed to join the CSC and SKUSA. Now I know that some of those racers did double duty so lets knock off 10%. That means we most likely had around 130 racers who paid.
130 X $50 = $6,500 to the CSC. Thats $6,500 that went directly to the CSC for running the races. That is money that gave us the very thing that impacted the quality of the racing. It was money very well spent.
130 x $75 = $9,750 to SKUSA. That is almost $10,000 we sent out of state to buy a rule book. Since I’ve showed the sources of the rule book, might we have been better off to pay some one in state to download the information, format it and publish it? I bet we could have gotten it done for $3,000 and had a better quality of a rule book.
That would leave us with almost $7,000 to buy additional staff for our events! If we could double our staff, wouldn’t that make the races better still.
We can have our black and white rule book and we can double our staff with out spending one more dime than we did laast year. We just have to spend our money wisely.