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Cyberspace Communications finances for January 2001
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Feb 9 05:25 UTC 2001 |
Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc. finances
through January 31st, 2001.
Beginning Balance $3,608.32
Credits $624.00 Member contributions
$9.00 Miscellaneous donations
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$633.00
Debits $69.46 Pumpkin Rent for February
$54.34 Electricity for January
$321.48 Phone Bill
$35.00 CardService fee for December
$6.48 PayPal discounts for January
$44.00 Renewal of P.O. Box
$45.00 Filing fees for Corp Info Update
$36.00 Bounced check from October
$5.00 Fee for bounced check
$70.00 Renewal of cyberspace.org for 2 years
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$686.76
Ending Balance $3,554.56
Our current balance breaks down as follows:
$3,354.70 General Fund
$139.86 Silly Hat Fund
$60.00 Spare Parts Fund
There was no activity in the Grex store this month, so the balances remain:
Cash Stock
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($6.60) $280.20
We had 4 new members in January (jambo, ktrotter, mera, and micklpkl). We
are currently at 100 members, 79 of whom are paid through at least February
15th. (The rest expired recently and are in a grace period. I will begin
removing expired members in earnest probably, oh, next week.)
Notes:
- As of this month, we are back to a system where the balance on the
treasurer's report matches the balance in the checkbook. So "what you see
is what we have."
- I went through our phone bills for the last year and discovered that we
are still paying for our ISDN lines. I called Ameritech on Tuesday,
February 6th, and the woman I talked to verified that Greg had called in
September to ask that they be dropped. She will drop the lines, effective
October 4th (5 business days from when Greg called, which is apparently
their standard lag time). So we should get a big refund.
- I reconciled the 2000 treasurer's reports with the checkbook, the bank
statements, the database, and the groups file. Everything is in agreement
now.
- The "Nonprofit Coroporation Information Update" is a form which we are
required to file each year with the Michigan Department of Consumer and
Industry Services, Corporation, Securities and Land Development Bureau.
(That's a mouthful.) It lists our officers and board members. Also, all
corporations are required to submit the name of a real person who lives at a
real address (not a P.O. box), called the "Resident Agent" of the
corporation. I have been the resident agent for Cyberspace Communications
since 1996.
Unfortunately for Grex, I moved to a new house in the fall of 1998, and
forgot to tell the State about it. They sent our 1998 form to my old
address, and somehow it never found me. So, to make a long story short,
Grex was 3 years behind on its Corp Info Update forms. We owed the regular
$10 per form plus $5 penalty per year. I called the State, got the forms,
and filled them out and sent them in. I note that the new form has separate
lines for "address of registered office" and "mailing address", so I am
hopeful that we won't have this problem again.
- One check we were given in October was returned unpaid. The $5 penalty
we incur in such situations was paid as part of the miscellaneous credits
above. I still have to contact the donor to try to get a replacement check.
- On my list of things to do soon:
- Print some handbooks and send them to 5 people who are waiting for
them.
- Call Voyager and get them to start sending us bills for DSL service.
- Send mail to everyone who donated $75 or more last year, asking if
they want a recaipt, and sending receipts to the ones that want one.
- Fill out our 2000 Sales and Use Tax form
- Clean up member.html and memfaq.html to better explain how to send
money to Grex via PayPal.
- Summarize just how big a bath we took on the credit card fiasco, so
the board can decide whether to dump our CardService account or try
to find another front-end provider.
- Decide if we have enough money to make it worth opening a money
market
account.
Thanks to everyone who contributed in January:
bmoran, bruin, coyote, danr, dpc, eeyore, flem, jambo, kami, ktrotter,
madgey, mera, micklpkl, mnac, mooncat, quail, rcurl, and tomaso.
Thanks everyone!
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. I 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.
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