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The Alano Club is supported soley by donations from individuals, meeting rent, book sales and coffee counter sales. The most important piece of support is membership. When individuals were supporting the club with membership either monthly or with annual dues the club was able to manage daily expenses and the occasional unexpected large maintenance expense.
Today the monthly Treasurer's report regularly shows the operating fund checking account with less than a hundred dollars in the account. While it may be appropriate for a 12 step meeting to have low account balances, the Alano Club is a business that you expect to be open and to remain open. The club survives on the occassional grant or donation to carry though particular bad spots but the economy is affectng those sources too. If the club is to remain open and the meetings are to have a consistent place to meet we need to step up and support our club.
To show the true nature of our finances the Board of
Directors authorized the publication of our monthly financial statements.
The dates of the financial statement reflect the first day after the last
deposit of the previous month to the last deposit of the current month.
Because the treasurer often has to wait till there are enough funds to
pay the VISA bill one month may show what seems to be a great profit only
for the next month to show a thousand dollar loss. You do need to look
at all the months to see the downward spiral of the club finances.
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