[Businessmtg] 7h Tradition - Passing Those Baskets!/Prudent Reserve

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Biz-Pals,

The 7th Tradition basket:

I think there's little question that reminding our members that we have group operating expenses and service arms to support which need member donations. Like Steve, I, too, as treasurer saw the correlation between making announcements and the money coming in.

Regular 7th Tradition announcements in the topic meeting is essential. Every two weeks should do the trick.

The Prudent Reserve:

A bit of a sticky wicket.

On the one hand we're not to have dues or fees. On the other we gotta have money. As expenses rise up goes the amount we set as our Prudent Reserve (PR).

Fine and good until it grows to a point where donations fall short - the point where we become unable to show excesses which allow us to donate to service arms.

In theory raising our PR to $2,000 to save money on bank fees sounds prudent, but at the same time we'd be moving further away from an ability to support our service arms.

I'd suggest some cheerful notes of encouragement along with our bi-monthly basket passing to get our balances regularly above the $2,000 mark before we set a higher PR level.

In service,
Jerry
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