<div dir="ltr">Because 2017 is an odd year. <div>Hope springs eternal?</div><div>In 2015 we raised about $22,500 for the building fund. Keep in mind that some of that expenditure was on things that also served other purposes, though. </div><div>It appears to me that the proposed budget has $12,900 for 2017 building fundraising expenses.</div><div>I'm not going to speculate on that line at the moment. However, I have a question of my own about the compensation line, although it is possible that I am just confused. It is my understanding that we have a time-sheet policy for the purpose of allocating staff time to the budget lines on which work is done. Shouldn't we be funding staff pay, in the budget, at least in part by budgeting money to those lines, rather than to compensation? </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Joshua A. Katz<div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Caryn Ann Harlos <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:carynannharlos@gmail.com" target="_blank">carynannharlos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">This is my first time with the yearly budget, so I apologize if I have dumb questions, and also if these are better to just ask at the meeting let me know, but I do have some basic questions about the first page for now:<div><br></div><div>Why are 2013 and 2015 given as baselines to compare, but not 2014?</div><div>What is the basis for thinking recurring gifts will be higher in 2017? (line 22)</div><div>What is project program revenue? (line 25)</div><div>I see building fundraising costs for 2015 of $15,304.00 (line 37)- anyone know how much we raised from those efforts? (and I note we have a $0 for that this year even though our PM says this is a priority)</div><div>What is causing the big jump in compensation?</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div><br class="m_8653728322464747888gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>In Liberty,</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#666666"><b>Caryn Ann Harlos</b></font></div><div><font size="1">Region 1 Representative, Libertarian National Committee </font><span style="font-size:x-small">(Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Washington) - <a>Caryn.Ann. Harlos@LP.org</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Communications Director, <a href="http://www.lpcolorado.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party of Colorado</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-small">Colorado State Coordinator, <a href="http://www.lpradicalcaucus.org/" target="_blank">Libertarian Party Radical Caucus</a></span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:10 AM, Tim Hagan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timhagan-tyr@yahoo.com" target="_blank">timhagan-tyr@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531"><div id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yui_3_16_0_1_1480251139392_20182"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px" id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yui_3_16_0_1_1480251139392_20181"><div dir="ltr" id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138863"><span id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138864">The draft budget to be considered at next month's meeting is attached. Some notes:<br id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138865" clear="none"><br id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138866" clear="none">The
Operating Budget worksheet, column F (highlighted in blue) is the budget to be considered. Its numbers
are derived from the yellow-highlighted column in the Acct Detail worksheet. The footnotes at the bottom
of the Acct Detail worksheet explain how we came up with the 2017
numbers.<br id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138867" clear="none"><br id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138868" clear="none">Many
of the numbers are based on the 2013 and 2015 numbers. We are predicting that
membership will be 19,583 in January, dropping to 15,000 at the end of next year. This gives an average throughout the year of 17,292, which is
28% higher than the average of 2013 and 2015 membership. Some revenues
and expenses are increased 28% to account for this increased membership.<br id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138869" clear="none"><br id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138870" clear="none"></span><div id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yui_3_16_0_1_1480251139392_46396" dir="ltr"><span id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138864">Because of our accounting method, the value of the office shows up as a fixed asset with the mortgage as a long-term liability, and paying down the mortgage's principal is a transfer from checking to the mortgage. Likewise, the bequest held in a trust is also an asset, which gets transferred to Cash in the books when we receive a check. Rows 46 and 47 on the Operating Budget worksheet show these transfers so the spreadsheet can show the surplus or deficit of the cash. For the cash flow, the
draft budget has a net deficit of $154,900.</span></div><span class="m_8653728322464747888HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr" id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yui_3_16_0_1_1480251139392_46397"><br><span id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138864"></span></div></font></span></div><span class="m_8653728322464747888HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div dir="ltr" id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138881"><span id="m_8653728322464747888m_3321497964385351133yiv2454116531yui_3_16_0_1_1480089045329_138882">Tim Hagan<br></span></div></font></span></div></div></div></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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