[Bookstoprisoners] Book sale update

[Jay Schubert]

I agree with lots of the suggestions and also have some thoughts and
questions.

Will we be able to meet on Saturday to discuss these ideas in person?
Suzanne and I are available to meet at any time on Saturday afternoon.  I
think that if we can all sit down and we have at least some rough financial
data at that time, we'll be in a better place to make some of these
decisions together.

- Jay

On 11/12/06, Sandra Ahten <sandra.ahten at gmail.com> 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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Jay
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