Cyberspace Communications finances for October 2002

Nov 1 14:32 UTC 2002

Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc. finances 
through October 31st, 2002.

Beginning Balance     $5,093.51

Credits                 $462.00         Member contributions
                          $4.57         Interest on our savings account
                         $25.00         Commissions from sales via CafePress
                          $2.17         Miscellaneous donations
                          $5.00         Repayment of bounced check fee
                   ------------
                        $498.74

Debits                   $76.58         Pumpkin Rent for November
                         $45.97         Electricity for October
                        $175.94         Phone Bill
                        $135.00         DSL October 15 through November 15
                          $4.44         Paypal fees (income = $122.17)
                         $12.00         Check that bounced last month
                          $5.00         Fee for bounced check
                          $2.09         Error in cost of backup tapes
                   ------------
                        $457.02

Ending Balance        $5,135.23

Our current balance breaks down as follows:

$3,898.24               General Fund
  $152.99               Silly Hat Fund
   $60.00               Spare Parts Fund
$1,024.00               Infrastructure Fund

The money is distributed like this:

  $794.50   Checking account
$4,340.73   Savings account earning approximately 1.30% interest annually

We had one new member in October (dvm).  We are currently at 80 members, 
76 of whom are paid through at least November 15th.  (The others expired 
recently and are in a grace period.)

Notes:

- Grex is in the black this month!

- One of the checks I deposited at the end of last month bounced.  The 
person who wrote the check graciously replaced it with a money order, and 
included an extra $5 to pay the fee our bank charges when a check bounces.

- I made an error on the cost of the backup tapes last month.  I think the 
salesman must have told me one number over the phone, but charged us a 
slightly different one.  It's not worth fighting over, but the actual 
amount we paid was $110.73 rather than $108.64, thus I included an extra 
$2.09 in this month's debits.

- The board directed me to stop reporting the Grex store totals every 
month, seeing as how the Grex store has basically been replaced by the 
CafePress store.  Suggestions for what to do with the (small) remaining 
inventory are welcome.

Thanks to everyone who contributed in October:

bruin, devnull, dvm, eskarina, gull, mnac, robh, steve, witling, and two 
people who asked to remain anonymous.

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.

response 2 of 23:

Nov 1 15:17 UTC 2002

Do I need to include id if I pay via paypal?

response 4 of 23:

Nov 1 18:52 UTC 2002

The board authorized Sylvia (bhelliom) to do whatever she
thought appropriate to dispense with what stock remains
in the Grex store.  I'd contact her if you wanted any of
it or had an idea of how to, er, get rid of it.

response 6 of 23:

Nov 2 02:04 UTC 2002

BLACK INK!  WOOHOO! 


(figuratively "speaking", figuratively typing...)

response 8 of 23:

Nov 4 15:59 UTC 2002

Can I take a digital picture of it and send that to you?

response 10 of 23:

Nov 5 02:39 UTC 2002

When is the next board meeting?  It is November already.

response 12 of 23:

Dec 2 16:07 UTC 2002

I noticed that our "Certificate of Assumed Name" (a form which we file in
Lansing that allows us to use the name "Grex" in transactions) was due to
expire at the end of the year, but I haven't received a renewal form.  So I
called the State, and it turns out they still have my old address as the
address of record, so they've been sending things there.  Arrgh!  I *know*
I told them both our new registered address (my house) and our mailing
address (the P.O. box) back in January of 2001, the last time I realized
they were sending things to the wrong place.  (See oldcoop item 230.)

So the upshot is that Cyberspace Comms is delinquent in filing its
Corporation Info Update forms, again.  They'll send them to us, and we'll
owe a penalty on the 2001 form (and possibly on the 2002 one as well, I'm
not sure.)  Last time the regular fee was $10 and the penalty was $5, so
expect to see an extra $25-$30 on the December treasurer's report.

I apologize, I should have noticed that we hadn't sent in that form
recently.  But I was *sure* I had fixed the address problem.

response 14 of 23:

Dec 3 03:03 UTC 2002

Sounds like a good idea.

response 16 of 23:

Dec 11 18:40 UTC 2002

I sent the forms off to Lansing, along with an extra letter requesting
that they change our addresses in their records.  I called to ask if we
owe any penalties, and according to a woman named Sharon we don't.  So the
cost was $30 ($10 for each year's corp info update and $10 for renewing
our assumed name). 

response 18 of 23:

Dec 14 19:30 UTC 2002

($10 for the 2001 form, $10 for the 2002 form, $10 for the renewal...
looks OK to me, but I'm a math minor and accustomed to making wrong
answers look right.)  ;)

response 20 of 23:

Dec 15 03:16 UTC 2002

Possibly he assumed for some reason some number of years other than 2?

response 22 of 23:

Dec 22 17:54 UTC 2002

It's $10 for each of the corp. info. update forms (2001 and 2002), and $10
for the renewal of assumed name, which is good for 5 years.