[Lnc-business] scheduling an LNC budget review session

[Rich Tomasso]

A few things stood out to me looking at the proposed draft budget.

1) The ~$500K for membership dues. I checked the 2014 numbers and that's 
about what we're at, but it is much higher than prior two post-election 
year budgets. Given that we did not set membership growth as a strategic 
goal for this term, I'm wondering if it's a realistic number. I 
certainly hope we can do it and am willing to help.

2) We're going back to only 4 issues of LP News. We did 6 issues this 
year and the Policy Manual calls for more. This is the main avenue of 
communication to members.

3) We have a rather high (IMO) expense to revenue ratio for direct mail 
fundraising. I think I asked this last term, is anything being done to 
refine our mailings with better targeting, A/B testing, etc to get more 
bang for our buck?

4) Once again we're spending more on tele-fundraising than we bring in. 
Total 4040 Revenue $19,100 and total 7070 Expense is $39,200. I assume 
work is not on a commission basis for these calls.

5) We have nothing allocated for ballot access lobbying. I firmly 
believe spending money here will save us multiples of it down the road 
in petitioning expenses.

Is it possible to get a more detailed breakdown of section 8100?

A question of how board fundraising will be accounted for. If I do some 
fundraising for a project I care about, is that counted for the general 
board solicitation or would it go into that project line item?


~Rich
  Region 8 Rep