Executive Committee Liaison: Lisa Kunst Vavro

Chair: --

Members: Adam Supplee, Aaron Richardson, Tom McLane, and Rich Rauso

Purpose:

The Membership Committee is responsible for recruiting new members and for maintaining current members.

Tasks:

The Membership Committee has been charged by the Chapter Executive Committee to perform the following tasks:

Short Term:

• Have each Section identify non-ASLA practitioners; the Committee should develop a master list for the Chapter.

• Develop proposals for a new membership incentive programs.

• Try to pinpoint the “leak” in why students do not join ASLA after graduation.  Develop a plan to get ASLA more visible to students.

• Target recent graduates for membership.

Long Term:

• Obtain support documents and a list of prospective and new members from National ASLA.

• Obtain list of registered landscape architects from Education Committee; use list to identify prospective members.

• Disseminate prospective and new member lists to each Section.

• Assist, monitor and coordinate Section efforts in contacting prospective and new members.

• Make sure National ASLA is getting promised information to new members.

• Make sure membership applications are available at the Chapter Executive Office and at all major Chapter functions.

• Keep updated listing of ASLA and Chapter benefits.

• Develop "welcome package" to be sent to each new member.
  

Committee Representation:

Members should include one member from each Section.