Newly applied members have their "member since" date set to the day they apply, but they aren't really members until the Board approves their membership application.  To aid in identifying which memberships require approval (and to help filter these "Awaiting Approval" memberships from lists of properly "Current" members) a flag is set on a custom field attached to the membership.

Here's what happens:

There are five basic status types with significant meaning and functionality:

A bit of history:

RMHA ID #s have been assigned under a number of different schemes.  Thus the numbers themselves range from "21" to "2021287"  The number itself and the size of the number have no particular meaning.  Further, these were treated as "membership" numbers initially, so one number was given for family memberships... and thus, yes, two adults have one number.

With the transition to the Drupal 9 site in November of 2021 the following decisions were made: