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| the essence OF PASA MEMBERSHIP
The Pike-Adams Sportsmen's Alliance is not a sportsmen's "club" in the ordinary sense. Instead, it is a community service organization, dedicated to the promotion of all forms of the shooting sports, hunting, and safe outdoor recreation. Its members are a gathering of community-minded individuals from the full spectrum of society, working together to bring a wide variety of recreational and economic benefits to the entire Western Illinois/Northeast Missouri region. All PASA club facilities and programs have been built and are staffed by volunteer help. The PASA club has no paid employees, and no PASA club Director or club officer receives any compensation for their efforts.
PASA as a club is a not-for-profit corporation, registered in the State of Illinois. It is affiliated with the National Rifle Association (NRA), the United States Practical Shooting Association (USPSA), the International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association (IHMSA), the United Shooting Sports (USS) and a variety of other national and regional sport and community-service organizations.
The PASA Sportsmen's Park is internationally recognized as one of the finest outdoor shooting sports facilities in the world. As a PASA club member, it is now open to you at all times--just like it was your own back yard. In addition to major events like the annual Masters International Shooting Championship and the USPSA National Championships, PASA's regular schedule of club activities currently includes a variety of shotgun, rifle, and handgun matches, firearms training and education courses, hunter sighting-in days, picnics, barbecues, and all types of shooter and hunter services.
As its name implies, the PASA club is an "Alliance" embracing many different member-organized, semi-independent Divisions which pursue widely varied activities--Pistol Division, Rifle Division, Action-Shooting Division, etc. (see accompanying sheets). New PASA club Divisions are developing all the time. If you and other members share a particular interest in a specific activity, PASA's club officers and staff will be happy to help you establish a new Division to promote that activity. Our organization is only as good as we, the members, make it, and we welcome your input.
While most PASA club programs are related to the shooting sports, the PASA Park facility itself is administered independently, and is also open for organizational or business meetings, picnicking, sport fishing in the bass pond (catch and release), and a variety of other outdoor activities.
For example, if you would like to use PASA Park or S&W Hall for a family reunion, group barbecue, wedding reception, company picnic, or similar activity, this can be easily arranged subject to scheduling with the PASA Park office. An information package detailing S&W Hall rental rates, guidelines for use, and a rental contract is available on request from the PASA Park office, or from the PASA Park’s General Manager at (217) 335-2504.
For current general information about scheduled activities at PASA Park, call the PASA 24-hour information line at (217) 335-2251.
PASA CLUB GOVERNMENT
The legal governing body of the PASA club is a seven-person Board of Directors, elected by PASA's voting membership to overlapping three-year terms (at least two seats are up for election each year). The PASA club’s voting membership consists of all PASA Life Members and all PASA Annual Members who have been members for five continuous years. As of May 2000, PASA had 270 Voting Members out of a total active membership of 542.
The PASA club Board of Directors has direct supervisory authority over all the affairs of the Alliance and elects the PASA club President, who serves a five-year term as chief executive officer and is operationally responsible for the overall administration of the organization and its facilities. The President appoints PASA's three Vice Presidents (Administration, Operations, and Member Services), who must be approved by the Board. The President also organizes PASA's Division structure, and appoints the Division Directors who conduct PASA's many different scheduled programs. The President is directly accountable to the Board of Directors, which has veto power over his actions and the actions of the Division Directors.
The Division Directors are accountable only to the President and the Board of Directors, and otherwise organize and administer their Divisions as they deem appropriate to the activities their Divisions pursue. Most Division Directors organize their Divisions as if they were clubs in their own right, with their own officers and governing committees that plan and direct the Division's programs according to the interests of the participants. Thus, the majority of PASA club members who participate in regular PASA programs do so in the context of a particular PASA Division, where they are in the company of fellow members of similar specific interests, but are nonetheless part of an overall whole.
PASA CLUB FINANCIAL STRUCTURE
As an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, the PASA club and all its Divisions operate on a "break-even" system. Each PASA Division sets its own independent annual budget, based on its projected operating costs and prize payback schedule (if applicable). Each Division contributes 50% of the net proceeds from each activity it conducts to the PASA club General Fund, which helps PASA contribute to the overall operational expenses of PASA Park (electricity, mowing, fuel, office supplies, range and building maintenance, etc.). Bigger Divisions with many activities thus contribute more toward PASA's overall expenses than do smaller Divisions with few activities.
Under this system, each PASA club Division ends each operating year with only enough cash on hand to carry it forward to its next scheduled event. There is no "profit" in any PASA Division, and there is no money "left over" anywhere (unless, of course, a Division is saving to fund a major project, like the Rifle Division's ongoing construction project for the William Robinson Memorial Rifle Range Complex.)
In addition to the 50% share it receives from PASA's operating Divisions, the PASA club General Fund also administers members' dues revenue. This income pays the balance of the PASA club's contribution to PASA Park’s overall operating expenses, continuing development, and expansion of the PASA Park facilities and physical plant. PASA also allots money from its General Fund to support individual PASA club Divisions or activities that operate at a loss, and contributes to individual Division projects--like the new Rifle Division ranges. The club General Fund operates on an annual zero-balance "break-even" budget, just like each PASA Division.
No PASA club Board member, officer, Division Director, or match official receives any pay of any kind for their services to the club. Period. All PASA club officers and staff are unpaid volunteers. The 150-acre PASA Park facility is leased from the Russell Metcalf Estate Trust for exactly $1.00 per year. Nobody connected with the PASA club "makes money" from club activities--except those who win prizes in competition.
Calendars OF EVENTS
PASA as an overall organization distributes an annual summary calendar sheet to its members each January, but things always change throughout any year, and the only completely reliable way to know the exact schedule of events planned by any PASA Division at any time is to contact the Director of that Division and request to be put on the Division's mailing list. Each PASA club Division maintains and distributes its own annual calendar of events to those people who sign up to be on that Division's mailing list. For example, the Rifle Division has its own calendar, the Action-Shooting Division has its own calendar, the Pistol Division has its own calendar, and so on.
PASA also provides announcements about events scheduled at PASA Park each month on its 24-hour information line--to the extent this information is provided to the PASA Park office by the Directors of the various club Divisions. Call (217) 335-2251.
PASA CLUB Membership fees
Annual Membership $ 25.00 Family Membership 50.00 Junior Membership 10.00 Life Membership
300.00 Guest Fee
10.00
PASA club members pay no additional range-use fees once their membership dues are received. However, PASA club Divisions sponsoring competition shooting events do charge match entry fees appropriate to their particular activities.
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Pike Adams Sportsmen's
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