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FROM THE PRESIDENT Gale Hankel Tel. 225-1177E-mail: hankel@pvnet.com.mx
Here we are winding down yet another VERY SUCCESFUL SEASON. The Elections were held at our March 12th General Assembly Meeting, and I want to welcome our newly Elected Officers, Al Ward as our newly elected President, Leon Rolnick as our Vice President, Al Badner as our Treasurer, Kitty Leonard as our Recording Secretary, and Evelyn Clark as Corresponding Secretary. By the way, in the March Newsletter I had Evelyn Clark as Recording Secretary, and Kitty Leonard as Corresponding Secretary. The above Elected is the way it was presented by the Election Committee. I want to thank all the members of this Election Committee. This past March 13th my wife and I had a wonderful experience in going to the Refugio Infantil Santa Esperanza (R.I.S.E.) Orphanage and presenting them a check from the Steffen Middle School, with matching funds from the International Friendship Club. The Orphanage has at this writing 31 children of which 4 are infants 6 are 1 ½ to 2 yrs old and the rest up to 13 years old. Pre-arranged visits are available.
I also want to take this opportunity to thank the many Board Members (too numerous to mention) of which have served with me during my term as President of our International Friendship Club and to all of the Volunteers, who have helped to maintain our role in the community of helping those less fortunate in the Bahia de Banderas. Personal THANKS to our Club Administrator Kirsten, for her dedicated work in handling the front office. Here’s hoping that all of you that are leaving our Beautiful Paradise for a while, will return full of energy and ready to volunteer and serve in any and all parts of our Club de la Amistad. Those of you remaining here, I want to see you at our April 9th General assembly Meeting for the Installation of the New Officers and the adoption of the Budget for the up-coming year.
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TREASURERS REPORT Allan Badner email: abadner@attcanada.ca
I am pleased to report that our finances as of March 18 are in absolutely great shape. We have today about $634,116 pesos in the bank, which now places us in a very comfortable balance. Home tour revenues are really coming in strong with NET increased revenues of $131,954 pesos to date over last year. As of March 18, 2002 we have deposited the following:
As of March 18 we have paid out the following:
*As of this date we now have spent less than what we have taken in so far this year, and the bulk of our revenue is now flowing in. We will no doubt end up with significant surplus plus reserve funds to carry us through the summer months. We will require this surplus to purchase new cookbooks. We are well within our budget.
The new budget for 2002/03 will be presented at the April 9th meeting for approval. We predict a significant surplus again and will be increasing our program allocations. |
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