[Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update

[jamie storm]

Ditto.  Jamie


>From: "Niloofar Shambayati" <Nilu at insightbb.com>
>To: "Sandra Ahten" <sandra.ahten at gmail.com>,"BTP" 
><bookstoprisoners at lists.chambana.net>
>Subject: Re: [Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update
>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:29:19 -0600
>
>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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