Hi, Dave.
With respect to Minute 9, I suggest a wording
change. Instead of " . . . the budget, which calls for a positive bottom
line for the year", I offer ". . . the budget, which calls for revenues and
other income sufficient to cover operating expenses".
Rationale: When a member has a complaint, I
sometimes hear the opinion that the League is only interested in the bottom
line, a charge usually levelled at for-profit companies. We are a
non-profit, and even our published financial statements label the difference
between revenues and expenses as "change in net assets", not as profit, net
income or any other term usually associated with "bottom line". By
avoiding that term, which is slang and has no technical validity anyway, in
favor of language that more closely portrays our nonprofit objectives, we can
help defuse some of those "bottom line" accusations.
73,
Marty N6VI
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Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 11:05
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Subject: [arrl-odv:19206] Draft Board
Minutes
Here are draft minutes of last
week’s Board meeting. I acknowledge the assistance of
Dan Henderson, N1ND in preparing the first draft.
These minutes may be shorter than you expected.
Robert’s Rules provides that withdrawn motions are not
included in the
minutes. I have followed
that provision, although I did have to note Saturday
morning’s discussion of a
motion that ultimately was withdrawn
in order to explain what we were doing between reconvening at 9:00 AM and the first break.
If you would like your name
rendered differently or you have suggested corrections, additions or deletions, please let me know.
73,
David Sumner,
K1ZZ
Secretary
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