This topic can be debated till the cows come home. I would like to know 3 things to put things in perspective:
1) How many permits the Port Perry club sold last year.
2) How much money was spent on grooming. (Not very much I would imagine)
3) How many of those permit buyers went north to find snow.
We all rave about the trails in northern Ontario (the Soo to North Bay & north), but how many of us actually buy permits up there? After we were up there last season, they got dumped on & I think the clubs got overwhelmed. Do you think the permit sales the Kap & Moonbeam clubs, for example, cover grooming expenses. These aren't the most heavily populated areas.
The matrix that IndySKS mentioned (maybe he can explain it for us) determines how much of the permit price the selling club keeps. You may complain that your club isn't grooming, but somewhere there IS a club grooming.
My concern is with the revenues that the OFSC receives & does not enlighten us in a sound financial manner as to how this money is spent. Maybe Arthur Andersen is doing the books for the OFSC. Could be because until the insurance fiasco last year, everything was rosy at OFSC HQ.
I agree with gt800xcr about the bureaucracy at the HQ. On another forum, (Indy was there too
) things got quite heated when some people criticized the OFSC
The posters who got upset with the criticism seemed to be of the opinion that we should blindly go along with the way the OFSC informs the membership on financial & operating matters.