Eligibility for Plants:
To be eligible for a club plant in May 2008, members must have paid their dues for 2007 and 2008. Dues are to be paid by April 30 each year. If not paid by then, you lose eligibility for a club plant. Also, members must do two of the following:

• Attend 2 club meetings.
• Assist at club functions (Spring or Fall Sale, Tour, Banquet), write articles for the Newsletter, or give a club program, etc.
• Donate plants to a club sale.
• Bid in the Silent Auction.

A club plant is a reward for being an active CVIDS member. The club uses portions of our funds to buy some choice daylilies. They are distributed to eligible members by a lottery system to grow for two years. At the end of this time, the member keeps a plant equal to the size (i.e. number of fans) that they received. The increases are returned to the Club for the Silent Auction and Sale in late summer.

There are always more plants purchased (or bonus plants) than the number of members eligible for a club plant. These are auctioned after the distribution. Everyone has a chance to acquire some choice daylilies. All members may bid on the extra plants. These become the property of the highest bidder and are not returned to the Club two years later for the Silent Auction.

Guidelines for Proxy Bids (adopted 1/12/08):
Members wishing to have a proxy represent them at the Club Plant Distribution in May should: (a) provide the proxy with an ordered list of their preferred choices, and (b) notify the Treasurer of their choice of proxy. If no proxy is identified, the absent member’s name will be placed at the end of the drawing process, and a plant will not be chosen prior to the auction of remaining available plants.

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