I will follow up with Krissy and Forrest, re rent due.Forrest moved out in July, but is responsible for long distance and phone charges his campaign incurred.Krissy is paying $100 per month, and we started using the office in August, so we owe for this month.On a related note, Jane Kim is announcing campaign mobilizations out of our office. Did anyone clear this with us? I don't recall any discussion about continued use.I can follow up with her campaign about this, since it puts a lot of folks in the office during the weekends, when we are all going to be very busy.I'll report back on the conversation with Jane's campaign.What do we want to ask campaigns for rent if they want to make occasional use of our office? Also, how do we coordinate this with our current sub tenants- long term- Our City (who will start canvassing this fall), short term- Krissy for Congress, using the office days and some eves for phone banks.peace,susanOn Sep 6, 2006, at 9:35 PM, christine mcclintock wrote:Hey, all...
A quick financial update:
I picked up four checks from the office today, for a total of a $640 deposit. John-Marc also got some more sustainer donations to me last night. Right now we're in the black, and I'll be mailing off the rent of the bills tomorrow. I wanted to give those checks a day to clear. I haven't been able to get in touch with the company about the server bill. I've called twice now, and only gotten a voicemail - I obviously didn't want to leave the credit card number on a voicemail, and still don't know how much the bill is, though I think we'll have enough to cover it (we're about $242 in the black). I will try again tomorrow afternoon to get in touch with them, but I'd rather speak to a live person - I might just be calling at an odd hour or something.
As for the internet service - I tried to get in touch with them months ago about giving them the new credit card number (the old one was attached to Dave's now cancelled account), but there's no contact there. I talked to Micheas about this a while ago (do you remember this - one Saturday in the office?) You said that you had hoped (or expected) they'd get in touch with us about it.
The long distance bill will be coming up soon - this hit us hard last time because of the calls out of campaign offices, and they really don't give us much time to pay it since it comes from Sacramento - there's usually only a week payment due date (fyi).
Also, I'm not clear on rent that is supposed to be coming in from Krissy's and/or Forrest's campaigns. How is that being handled? Are they responsible for the phone bill, and how is that being decided?
That's all the news for now.
Thanks!
Christine
From: "susan_e_vaughan@juno.com" <susan_e_vaughan@juno.com>
To: chrismcclintock@hotmail.com
CC: finance@sfgreens.org, cc@sfgreens.org
Subject: Re: [SFGP CC] Our Financial Situation
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 05:39:11 GMT
Hi CHristine and everyone,
Susan King took $100 dollars out of the cooler the other day and is going to write a check to
the SFGP which she will put in your box. We figured it was easier to get a check to you than to
try to figure out how to make the deposit ourselves.
Sue
Please note: message attached
Hi, All...I just wanted to give you all a heads up on our financial situation, and more specifically why I have not been able to pay the rent and other bills.(Please read the whole email before commenting - thanks!)As of this moment - our accounts balances are:Checking (Business): $767.32Checking (Account tied to the Credit Card Service): $51.57I don't want to transfer the entire $51.57 over to the other checking account just yet... I've been trying to keep at least $25 in there because I'm still unclear on the timetable of fees and surchages from the Credit Card company. I think it's in our best interest to stay on their good side, as they are the current holder of all of our credit card data, and I don't want to get into any kind of battle over that.John-Marc has been working on getting more sustainers and credit card donations, and while this is going to be a great help, there's still a lag in getting that money to our bank account. The credit cards that he got on Wednesday have been charged, and the money is in our account with Merchant Services. The problem is the transfer to our Wamu account from them. Based on the time lag from the other transactions, they should be in our account today. Actually, they should have been in that account on Saturday, but I'm presuming there's been some delay because of the holiday.I know that John-Marc has some more credit cards for me, and I'll be home and available tonight if you want to give me a call. Also, I guess you are still having problems with the password?? I can give that to you again - I had no problem logging on.The credit card charges are pretty hard to predict, and I thought that we would be a lot closer to the amount needed for the rent and other bills than we currently are (see below).I went by the office on Saturday morning, ready to pick up the rent check from Our City - who are usually extremely prompt about payment, but there was no check from them. Also, John-Marc told me that he thought that Sue was going to be there in the afternoon to pick up the Grow cooler, and that there was some cash in there that I should take for a deposit. I looked and looked and didn't see the cooler (this was about 10) - so I'm guessing that Sue might have come by the day before (?) or just earlier than I got there... Or it is all together possible that I just didn't see the cooler, but I looked all around for it.I guess with the Our City rent and that cash paying the rent should be the first priority, though I honestly don't know what our agreement with Our City is, or if this is the month that their rent is going up.I had the rent check and other bills ready to go on Saturday, but figured I'd hold off until I got the check from Our City and/or the actual transfer takes place from the Credit Card transactions. I made the decision to hold off on the rent because *if* they charge us a late fee (a lot of times landlord will just let it go over a holiday weekend), it will be $25 - the same amount as a bounced check from Wamu... and I'd rather give that fee to the Howard Street Association than Wamu for a bad check.Other bills that need to be paid:AT&T: $161.90 Due on September 5th (though it's $164.33 if paid after September 15th, so there's a little time to get that together)PG & E: $140.72 Due September 5thThe Server Bill: Micheas I don't know how much this is, nor have I had a moment to call them about it. I'll try today, but don't know if they'll have any support in on a holiday.Micheas: $25 for freelance work (?) I still don't know what this invoice is about - does this go directly to you?So - that's where it all is at the moment. This has been kind of rough, and I honestly don't think that next month is going to get any better.Please advise me on what my next steps should be.Thanks!Christine
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