[Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update

[Niloofar Shambayati]

Hello & thanks to everyone for the book sale.  I can pitch in $100 and would like to start the process of hiring someone.  And I would love to have Sandra as the  formal director of BTP.  Can  we have a formal meeting any time soon to go over these issues & rethink our book sale strategy & tactics? 

Peace, 
Niloofar 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Sandra Ahten 
  To: BTP 
  Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:16 PM
  Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update


  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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