[vox] [fwd] LUGOD Treasury Position And Financials

[Rod Roark]

Just a thought: Consider a credit union instead of a bank.  I think of 
credit unions being to banking much as open source is to software... 
like not constantly inventing new ways to soak you for fees.  I recently 
opened an account with Travis and am very pleased with it so far.

Rod

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> Greg's apparently not subscribed to 'vox' (or at least, wasn't when he
> tried posting this).
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from vox-bounces at lists.lugod.org -----
> 
> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:13:21 -0700
> From: G Fitzgerald <gfitzgerald1024 at gmail.com>
> Subject: LUGOD Treasury Position And Financials
> To: vox at lists.lugod.org
> Cc: vox-officers at lists.lugod.org
> 
>    All,
> 
>    The purpose of this e-mail is to inform the group and officers of the
>    latest information related to the group's financials, and Treasury
>    position.
>    For those not in the loop, I was recently elected Treasurer of LUGOD, and
>    have been tasked with getting the group's finances back in order.
> 
>    Our outgoing Treasurer has closed LUGOD's account with his local bank, and
>    provided me with a check, made out to the group, for the account balance.
>    Additionally, I have learned that the group's mailing address has been
>    closed.
> 
>    I met with our President, Bill Kendrick, during this week's social, and
>    discussed our next steps.
>    Bill is in full agreement with the plan below, and I wanted to communicate
>    it to the group.
> 
>    The plan is as follows:
>    1) Using the check provided to me by our outgoing Treasurer, I will
>    re-establish a bank account in the group's name.
>    Both Bill and myself will have full privileges on the account, primarily
>    for the purposes of depositing collections, and writing checks for
>    expenses.
>    Bill has indicated that he will likely be unavailable to accompany me to
>    establish his signature authority on the account this month, but we will
>    do this when our schedules permit - in the meantime, Bill has agreed that
>    the account should be established.
> 
>    2) Once the funds have settled, I will use the funds to re-establish a
>    post office box for the group, which is important for tax purposes.
> 
>    3) Once the bank account and post office box have been established, I will
>    contact the IRS and provide them with the new address, and verify if there
>    is any outstanding correspondence (perhaps sent to the old address) which
>    requires our attention.
> 
>    I'll keep the group informed (via e-mail and updates at our official
>    meetings) of our progress on these, and any other
>    Treasury/financial-related issues.
> 
>    If there are any concerns with the above plan, please let me know.
> 
>    Thank You,
>    Greg FitzGerald
> 
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----