[Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update

[Sandra Ahten]

Well, we are winding down. We made $1980 between the booksale and Romp Stomp
Slam Jam. We will have the give-away "by donation" tomorrow.... so we could
make a little more. This amount has deducted from it: $80 for food and copy
expense for RSSJ, $87 for IMC, and about $120 for laminate signs (that we
will re-use). It also has deducted from it the 10% ($219) that we agreed to
pay for the booksale coordinator.

As the booksale coordinator, I am however donating that amount back to the
BtP with the hopes that it will be used to help fund the BtP Volunteer
Coordinator position. So that bring the total to $2199.


Workers today decided that the responsible and logical thing to do with the
remaining books is to save the leftovers for a future sale. There are just
too many high quality books to re-cycle. We discussed donating them to
various organizations, but decided that, it made more sense to just keep
them as seed for the next sale. Now that the sale is at the IMC and is more
of a fine tuned machine (smile) we might be able to have them more often.

Lincoln's Challenge will be there tomorrow at noon to start packing books.
They will need supervision to get them neatly packed and the boxes labeled.
If you can help, please come by. Deb, Jane and I will be there. Susan and
Jamie are working the give-away from 8-noon.

I am still convinced that we (more than ever) need a BtP Volunteer
Coordinator. I probably have about 8-10 hours worth of book-keeping work to
do to get reports to you that will show our accounting ... so that we can
make a decision on it. But I would like to ask that you be thinking about
this approach....

If we could find 12 people to donate $100 each toward the $1200 needed to
hire someone for 3 months, we could just get moving on this. I am willing to
donate $100 and find one or two others. Would you do the same?

I would also like to have there be a job of "coordinator" or "director" be
spelled out and defined.I am, very possibly, willing to be that person on a
volunteer basis. I would like to have the BtP Volunteer Coordinator report
to the Director (whether it be me or someone else). I am however unwilling
to keep working sort-of-as-the-acting-director. I  alway feel like I need to
get permission/consensus on everything....or else feel guilty becuase I
don't. This is not effecient and is uncomfortable for me. So we are going to
need to formalize this arrangement.


Peace,

Sandra
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