[Businessmtg] Funds Over P.R.

Sat Feb 23 14:50:20 PST 2013

Hi everyone-

With respect to Newcomers Packets.... the Steering Committee had a 'skeleton Crew' for some time.  This means,  no secretary, no webmaster and no greeter chair for most of the last two years if not longer.  As a consequence, the former list administrator and Anne were pulling double and sometimes triple weight just to keep things running day to day-  gratefully!   In fact with the recent election of Raine we finally have a fully loaded SC for the first time since I have been a member 3 years.  Additionally the member who had volunteered to handle the packets is no longer active.

The only reason newcomers packets fell off the priority list was lack of bandwidth to keep up with an average 40 new members per month and most certainly not any financial irresponsibility and it was never an intention to hoard the funds for this service with no intention of re-establishing the program.

Thank you,
Cyndi

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From: logmark at comcast.net
Sent: Sat Feb 23 16:45:54 EST 2013
To: list_administrator at asp-afg.org
Cc: asp_biz <businessmtg at asp-afg.org>
Subject: Re: [Businessmtg] Funds Over P.R.

James, 

Thanks for your note. You can go to our Members Page (see below - way below 

at the bottom of all (most?) of the ASP letters we receive.) 

There there find the button for "Seventh Tradition." Then look for "Financial Reports." 

By going there you and any member can access every financial transaction ASP 

has ever made, line by line. Completely transparent (and much appreciated by the WSO.) 

It starts from the month that ASP became self supporting - when Steve turned over 

the reigns and his sole financial support - and is updated every month. 

Don't get me wrong - Beginner's Packets are wonderful. (I just found my original one 

yesterday! Yipee !) For some reason, though, they haven't taken off with our newcomers 

here at ASP. So as we address our Prudent Reserve and the resulting Excess Funds 

we're now talking about, accurate info is important to the discussion. 

Hugs, 

Jerry 

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----- Original Message -----

From: " JamesToo " < jamestoo @ runbox .com> 
To: logmark @comcast.net 
Cc: "ASP Business" < businessmtg @asp-afg.org> 
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2013 4:23:58 PM 
Subject: Re: [ Businessmtg ] Funds Over P.R. 

Jerry, 

Please show down a bit. There was a lot of info you've just provided. 

I'm visual so I need to see perhaps a cash flow or profit and loss statement. Is that available somewhere? 

A P&L sheet will be very helpful in looking at the current situation and in creating a budget for the year ahead. It will also force us to look into sending people to those events you mentioned and other future expenses. For example, I didn't know that we don't give out packets to newcomers anymore although that was the group conscience in the past. 

James. 

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