I personally don't understand why we would want to change our logo in the first place. It's been our world-wide standard for over a doZen years and is literally known around the world. More than 800 CTZCC members recognize it as our identity. Our Club decals appear on Z cars in many states and foreign countries. All our old hard-earned trophies bear our well-known logo as well.
We are living in an era where it's considered "good" to change everything, simply for the sake of change. I strongly disagree. If it ain't "broke", don't "fix" it.
What we do need (as we initially discussed at our final meeting last Zeason) are new decals, caps, T-shirts, jackets, windbreakers, thongs (  ), hoodies, and collared Polo shirts with our existing Club logo on them. Since Keith honorably retired from his position as Merch Czar, we have simply worn out our existing supply. They are becoming threadbare and unserviceable. We need to find a supplier(s) to replace our wardrobe.
Further, the Club Kitty was fronting Keith with a small fund which let him order these items in past years. Selling them to the members repaid that investment and built a slow positive cashflow into the Kitty. Keith never took a nickel for himself; all profit went to the Club. At that time we were also holding annual Z car shows which charged $20 per car to enter, and constituted our major Club income. The Club Kitty grew slowly over the years, enabling Keith to maintain a slow constant flow of new clothing items bearing our established Club logo, provide trophies at the Z Car Shows, pay for the Annual Fall Outing picnic, send flower memorials to Club funerals and keep our Cholesterol high during the monthly meetings. We also accepted some individual donations, and parted-out some gift Z cars at bargain prices for Club members. That way we remained the largest, most-popular, best-known DUES-FREE Z Club in existence.
Today those forms of income no longer exist, so we don't have the wherewithal to front $1400 for new "stuff". Forty-piece orders are outside our reach at this moment until we rebuild the Kitty. (Keith seldom had more than a doZen different items for sale at a time). I don't see us affording new artwork and 40-piece orders at this time, and doubt we will ever have need for such a large order at once.
I feel we need new suppliers (or the old ones!) who can begin trickling-in fresh items at a reasonable rate, so we can rebuild our small-profit Merch program and outfit our Clubbies in fresh gear. Keith's old contacts may still have our original artwork, and the new Merch Czar(s) should be put in touch with them to resume our old process of supplying new MerchandiZe at the volume we had before.
Just my 2 cents. We'll see what the Vote says.
Frank T
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