Cyberspace Communications finances for December 2005

Jan 2 00:31 UTC 2006

Here is the treasurer's report on Cyberspace Communications, Inc. finances 
through December 31st, 2005.

Beginning Balance     $3,684.29

Credits                 $261.00         Member contributions
                          $1.00         Miscellaneous donations
                          $1.02         Interest on our savings account
                   ------------
                        $263.02

Debits                  $100.00         Provide Net colocation (thru 1/22/06)
                         $45.60         Phone Bill
                          $5.79         Paypal fees (income = $144)
                         $29.90         Renewal of grex.org and cyberspace.org
                         $30.91         Winter Personal Property Taxes
                   ------------
                        $212.20

Ending Balance        $3,735.11

Our current balance breaks down as follows:

$3,561.12               General Fund
  $173.99               Silly Hat Fund

The money is distributed like this:

$1,833.28   Checking account
$1,901.83   Savings account earning 0.65% interest annually

We had two new members in December (acer and vortayne).  We are currently
at 66 members, 47 of whom are paid through at least January 15th.  (The
others expired recently and are in a grace period.)

Notes:

- This should be our last personal property tax payment to the City of Ann
Arbor.  Grex moved its equipment out of Ann Arbor last February.

- Our domains are now paid through January of 2007.

Thanks to everyone who contributed in December:

acer, dpc, garrigan, keesan, robh, tod, vortayne, and witling.  Thanks!

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.

response 2 of 7:

Jan 2 07:22 UTC 2006

Someone who believes in Grex, obviously. :)

response 4 of 7:

Jan 8 18:55 UTC 2006

We recived a personal property tax form from the City of Ann Arbor for 2005,
so I wrote to Mike Courtney in the Assessor's Office.  He was the one who
was so helpful to us back in 2001, when we first were required to pay taxes.

I explained that Grex had moved all of its equipment out of Ann Arbor, and
he deleted us from the tax rolls, with no fuss at all.  Very painless!

response 6 of 7:

Jan 10 03:04 UTC 2006

The next question being whether Ypsi (or whatever municipality Grex is
currently actually housed in) has personal property taxes ...