Larry's comments, fyi. He starts out showing excellent insight then the s.o.b. disagrees with me. Ho well. sh --- Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:55:21 -0700 (PDT) > From: Larry Lampert <l_lampert@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: Treasurer Report 1st 6 months 2004 > To: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com> > > The attached report is excellent. It accurately > describes the financial "state" of the AGA. I can't > find anything to really disagree with, although I > think valueing the PAMs at zero and taking all of the > loss in a single year may be a little aggressive but > looking at past years AGA PAM sales, which are a > periodical as noted, probably justifies it. > > The only thing missing was a report on where the > Tax-Exempt Status is in the process. I understand that > it would not be found on a typical corporate BOD > Report but since basically everything else is based on > it....it is certainly a question that came to mind. > > I like your financial risk paragraph. I do think we > may have a little more exposure on the convention just > because a lot of our revenues came from DFW folks > working the vendors to get as much as we could. As > already discussed, and even with Phil's able > assistance, I am not sure GWAPA will do as well. > Hopefully, I am dead wrong, I have been so before. > Quite often in fact, if you ask my wife. ;-) > > Anyways the report looks great. By the way if we are > forced to dissolve and reform how about we call > ourselves "The Aquarium Gardeners Association" You > know the AGA ;-). > ===== Want to get dirty but stay clean? Diana Walstad, author of _Ecology of the Planted Aquarium_ will discuss soil supplemented aquarium substrates at the 2004 AGA Convention. Convention Details/Registration at aquatic-gardeners.org & gwapa.org _______________________________________________ AGA-sc mailing list AGA-sc@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/aga-sc