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Rappers, Researchers, Readers, Rehashers, and Writers Needed
Workers Needed - Teamsters Local 681 Election
General Meeting - Concurrence on Reproductive Choices
Dollars and Sense (Marian Heidel)
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Conference - Environmental Risk Assessment

$ and Sense

Whiile Wall Street may have recently been jumping with joy as trading mounted, what you saw down at the League office as a case of the jitters. Your treasurer had shocked a lot of the powers-that-be by severely depleting the savings account. "Is it true....is it true....we don't have any money?!" No, it's not that bad; but we are cutting it pretty tight.

Aside from approximately $1200 per month expenses (office, staff and program), we have two large pledges we make. One is our PMP (per member payment) to LWVUS from whom we receive so many good publication and who lobbies and litigates and educates for us, and $2500 to LWV Hawaii which carries forward so many of the terrific programs we identify with: Juvenile Justice Study, Natural Resources, Campaign Spending laws, etc. Of course, some of that money returns to us in the form of shared expenses for a good portion of the overhead. These obligations average out to about $440 a month.

SO WHERE ARE WE GETTING NEARLY $1650 IN INCOME EVERY MONTH?

Dues do not begin to cover it.

National Per Member Payment

$12.00

State LWV

10.40

Aloha Voter

-5.60
 

28.00

Your dues

20.00

But they are an important part. WE DEPEND ON:
 1982-1983
Budget
Monthly
Average
 
Dues:$4700/yr$390

$950 Because you pay your dues on the anniversary of joining, each month's income is not a steady amount. Anyone who wants to pay her dues early is very welcome to do so!

Contributions:
 Non-members (Corporate Drive, Direct Mail)
1500
(LWV-Honolulu's portion)
152
(Thus far)

Usually the bulk of these contributions come toward the first of the calendar year, and thus far, we have $910 (they're feeling the pinch out there, too).

 Members50062
(Thus far)

Or, $370 the first six months As you can see, thus far, our membership is being more generous than anticipated, but KEEP IT UP, KEEP IT UP!

Sharing of Overhead by LWV-HI and LWV Ed Fund: 346
(Thus far)

The contribution is actually somewhat larger, because they share a portion of postage and supplies, which are not included in these figures.

THAT LEAVES US WITH A DEFICIT OF $700 A MONTH. WHERE DO WE GET IT?

  1. Fundraisers We have one coming up in February. Our budget is based on our raising $2000 from that.

  2. Vote counts and Elections We have been so successful the past two years with great numbers of vote counting jobs, that this year, we based our budget (conservatively, we thought) on receiving $4000 in income from this source. But that is where the rub is---there has been a dearth of such, and our savings account is bearing the brunt of our "economic recession."(When this happens, we lose a lot of expected interest income, too.) Luckily, we have a big big job coming the first of the year, the Hotel Workers' Union and two smaller ones; the Nursing Association and a Teamster's local. The Board, in their October meeting, voted to send out letters advertising our skills and availability in an attempt to solicit more vote count jobs. This is one way you can really help the League financially, so volunteer eagerly to help with these jobs when the call goes out. It's fun: (P.S. We're looking for a Vote Count Coordinator and for head honchos for specific counts.)

Prospectus: The next couple of months may be a bit precarious. We can get through November and December without drawing on savings as long as the dues and membership contributions keep pouring in. Our final quarterly pledges to State and National League may have to wait for that big vote count. As of this date, our savings account holds $2,288 and our checking account, $342.

We do look forward to a more Profitable spring, but we would certainly appreciate some help in the meantime.

Marian Heidel
Treasurer, LWV-Honolulu

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