Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc. finances
through February 28, 2005
Beginning Balance $3,226.84
Credits $336.00 Member contributions
$34.28 Micellaneous contributions
$3.03 Interest on our savings account
$0.70 Error on Paypal fee in December
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$374.01
Debits $84.43 Pumpkin Rent for February
$61.02 Electricity for January
$61.02 Electricity for February
$91.44 Phone Bill for January
$166.73 Phone Bill for February
$270.00 DSL January 15 through March 15
$9.93 Paypal fees (income = $264)
$38.00 P.O. box renewal
$200.00 provide.net colocation (Through 3/22)
$0.10 Error on check to Radio Shack
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$982.67
Ending Balance $2,618.18
Our current balance breaks down as follows:
$2,361.64 General Fund
$173.99 Silly Hat Fund
$60.00 Spare Parts Fund
$22.55 Infrastructure Fund
The money is distributed like this:
$726.88 Checking account
$1,891.30 Savings account earning 0.55% interest annually
We had no new members in January and February. We are currently
at 71 members, 54 of whom are paid through at least March 15th. (The
others expired recently and are in a grace period.)
Notes:
- This report combines both January and February activity. Sorry it is so
late - there has been so much going on with Grex that the treasurer's job
fell through the cracks.
- I made an error recording the Paypal fees in December. They were $5.15,
not $5.85.
- Joe bought two DB25 to DB9 adapters at Radio Shack, so we could plug the
modems directly into Grex and avoid using the terminal server.
Unfortunately, they didn't work, so he took them back. Through some fluke
of accounting, we lost $.10 on the deal. Go figure.
- We renewed our P.O. Box through February 2nd of next year.
Thanks to everyone who contributed in January and February:
charcat, dang, jep, mbroggy, micronix, srw, vxjester, witling, and one user
whose login we don't know yet.
If you or your institution would like to become a member of Grex, it
only costs $6/month or $60/year. Send money to:
Cyberspace Communications
P. O. Box 4432
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432
If you pay by cash or money order, please include a photocopy of some
form of ID. We can't add you to the rolls without ID. (If you pay
with a personal check that has your name pre-printed on it, we
consider that a good enough ID.) Type !support or see
http://www.cyberspace.org/member.html for more info.
24 responses total.
So, uh, these people who contributed during the months of January or February are not new membres ?
Right. Some of them may become members, though. For various reasons, their formal membership is on hold.
Oh. I was thinking it was just a random act of kindness on their part; i.e. randomly deciding to send money.
Random acts of kindness are of course welcome, and are reported as miscellaneous donations.
I will tell jdeigert that his 10 hours of recycling activity count as a donation. He already put out six bins of steel and has taken out the greenboard, copper wire, aluminum, and mixed metals to bring elsewhere, and we threw out the plastic. The really big boxes will get driven to Friedman's, I hope some time soon so we can work on the porch again.
Thank you Jim and Sindi. 10 hours. Wow.
Wow.
Two more bins today. He has somehow been managing to flatten the metal cases. Probably closer to 20 hours if you include my time. We never got to look inside a T1 box before, or the box the modems plugged into. PCs were not a big treat. It is the drives that take a long time and need special tools. My artistic neighbor likes the little boards with copper coils for making flowers from. You can see his work at Big City Bakery on Miller. Wire sculpture animals. If we were to take all the steel 10 miles or so we could get 3 cents a pound for it instead of putting it at the curb but that wastes fuel. How many tons of grex landed on the porch? Last call on the SUN terminals before they go to Kiwanis or get picked up with the Kiwanis computer junk to take to a place on Jackson Rd.
I moved $1000 from our savings account over to our checking account, to cover the current bills. I also deconstructed the last phone bill, and found that it cost us a total of $109.50 to move the two lines to provide.net. Our bills in the future should be approximately $45/month.
("Deconstruct" has a very specific technical meaning in the field of critical
theory, and is no doubt inapplicable to petty accounting.)
No doubt.
How do projected bills for provide.net (rent and broadband connection) compare with projected income from only about 50 paying members? Plus the $45 phone of course. Any other ongoing expenses that I forgot? No insurance, electricity, or property tax now.
Well, we should be OK. I'll need to do some work to detail all the expenses. You named the major ones, but there are some minor ones which add up.
Mark (and Joe), could you have a rough breakdown of typical monthly or quarterly income and expenses for the Board meeting on Friday, 3/18?
Dave - there's a breakdown of our 2004 income and expenses in coop item 228. You can replace the top 5 debit items with $100/month for colocation and $45/month for phone. That's the best estimate I know how to come up with; I really don't know what our income is going to be.
I realized that we did have a new member in January, and I forgot to acknowledge him. He is vxjester.
Do I take it that that $900+ in expenses was a one-time spike, and things should be back to normal and maybe even better in the months ahead?
Yes, things should be even better in the months ahead.
Why is Aruba still posting the treasurer's reports and handling the books when he is no longer on the board or the treasurer? is that legal?
Yes, but only in the states of Nevada and New Mexico. Guess we should do something about that, eh?
He just can't stop working; the pay is so good
Mark is now an official assistant treasurer, by board action. He has generously agreed to help out, as needed. Joe is point person on staff and has his hands full. Thanks, Mark, for jumping back in.
thanks mary !
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