SURVEY RESULTS ONLINE
Log on the P.E.O. International website to see and hear the results of the 2007 survey of membership. Go to “What’s New” at peointernational.org, click on membership survey and learn what nearly 14,000 members think.
PAYMENT OF DUES
Time to Pay Dues
Local chapter dues are payable February 1 for the 2009-2010 year. If you are going to be out of town and unable to attend meetings, please remember to mail your check to your local chapter treasurer. Although dues are not considered delinquent until March 1, as a courtesy to the treasurer, please pay them as soon as possible.
Treasurer: Remember to send dues notice six weeks in advance to non resident members and to those unable to participate regularly.
Local Chapters – Consider advancing dues for active members
A chapter may advance dues for a member whose dues have not been received before March 1. At the last regular business meeting in February, the chapter votes to authorize the treasurer to advance state and International Chapter dues. Payment of these dues maintains the member’s active status. Following March 1 the member reimburses the chapter for all dues: local, state and international.
Local Chapters – Consider helping a member in need by assisting with her dues
When local chapters have members who need financial relief, as well as loving concern and attention, the chapter is encouraged to place the needs of these members first when planning the use of local chapter funds. Local chapters should consider “caring for their own” a top priority. A member who cannot participate in local chapter life for reasons of health, financial difficulties or advanced age may be given special consideration upon recommendation and vote of her local chapter.
Local Chapter Involvement:
- She may be exempt from local chapter dues and;
- Local chapter pays state and International Chapter dues;
- Local chapter pays state dues and member pays International dues; or
- Member pays state dues and local chapter pays International dues.
The member retains all privileges of active membership and may resume all or any part of payment of dues and assessments at any time. The local chapter is permitted to designate its own classification, or name, for members granted this “special privilege.” If desired, the local chapter may include this privilege in their standing rules.
INTRODUCING WOMEN WHO ARE NOT P.E.O.S
A member may obtain this form from her local chapter president or on the website to introduce one who is not a member of the Sisterhood. Local Chapter presidents are listed in the Directory of Presidents on the members’ section of the website.
For areas where there are no P.E.O. chapters, Form FR may be sent to the organizer of the state in which the woman resides OR, if she lives where there is no state organization the form should be sent to the organizer of International Chapter.
The chapter (or organizer) receiving Form FR is under no obligation to contact the woman being introduced, but it is a courtesy to your P.E.O. sister to detach the bottom section of the Form FR and return it to the sender.
The P.E.O. Record on Tape
For information regarding The P.E.O. Record on tape, please contact Anne Vaeth, 11321 Craig, Overland Park, KS 66210.; akv@everestkc.net. This service for our visually impaired sisters is provided free of charge by Chapter DO, Kansas City, Missouri.
