[Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update

[Susan Porter Bruce]

I sent this last night but I believe it bounced. Apologies if it's a  
repeat and irrelevant now.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Susan Porter Bruce <susanpbruce at yahoo.com>
> Date: November 12, 2006 8:36:01 PM CST
> To: Sandra Ahten <sandra.ahten at gmail.com>, BTP  
> <BooksToPrisoners at lists.chambana.net>
> Cc: "Bertram C. Bruce" <chip at uiuc.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update
>
> Since I'm just back in town and did very little to help with this  
> sale, I'll start by saying the obvious:  Thanks, many thanks to  
> Sandra. She knew that book sales could be a burnout and still she  
> took this on.
>
> We survive as a group by all this volunteering. Rather amazing how  
> we pull it off, but at times it can be too much, and each of us  
> jumps forward or pulls back as we can. But it's true that as we  
> grow it would help to have someone designated as a slightly-paid  
> coordinator. The risk is that we will all think that this slightly- 
> paid person can take care of everything. But I hope that we'll  
> remember that concern. So I would jump in and say that contributing  
> $100 to insure 3 months would be fine for Chip and me. It's  
> understood that we can't pay someone without a regular stream of  
> revenue, but I would suggest giving it a try.
>
> I am also not averse to naming as Director an obvious Director. A  
> consensus model still works well, given all the personalities  
> involved, but I think it would help. There can always be a coup, or  
> a lot of argument to keep things moving along for our constituents.  
> No one reminds us better about our constituents than our current  
> sort-of-acting director, and I am always willing to defer to her,  
> or argue with her as needed.
>
> I think the plan about saving books is fine. I was going to suggest  
> a culling tomorrow of the 45% best, but that might be hard and take  
> too much time. When I'm there I'll recycle anything i think should  
> be tossed.
>
> Susan
> On Nov 12, 2006, at 7:16 PM, Sandra Ahten wrote:
>
>> 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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> Susan P. Bruce
> 1501 N Coler Avenue
> Urbana, IL 61801
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>

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Susan P. Bruce
1501 N Coler Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801
217-384-2002
217-840-9120 (portable)


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