At 18:10 05/10/2005 -0700, Neil Schneider wrote: > >Stewart Stremler said: >> begin quoting John H. Robinson, IV as of Tue, May 10, 2005 at >> 02:50:30PM -0700: >> [snip] >>> Now, if elections are postponed until after the SDMUG separation, >>> then >>> things get interesting. As Neil pointed out, board members must >>> remain >>> members of a SDCS. There are a few ways to be an SDCS member. One is >>> regular membership, the other is via membership via a SIG. I would >>> tend >>> to read that everyone is a member via a SIG, unless dues were paid >>> directly to the SDCS. There are also lifetime, honourary, and >>> corporate >>> members. These I do not think apply to the current set of SDCS Board >>> members. >> >> Paying the local SIG for a "year membership" in SDCS and then losing >> that membership when the SIG leaves would seem to be a bad thing to >> do... either prorate the membership and issue a refund, or leave 'em >> be as members until the membership expires. > >IMNSHO SDMUG has gotten all the special breaks they deserve. A little >history lesson is in order. SDMUG was given special dispensation, >allowing them to pay only $6 per member, from the $30 they collected,
The actual amount collected is $36 per member. $6 goes to the SDCS treasury. The remaining $30 goes to SDMUG. >to SDCS. This was by a special amendment to the SDCS bylaws. SDMUG was >allowed to use the remaining $24 per member to publish their MAC >magazine. SDCS had trouble even collecting the $6 per member from >SDMUG. Then SDMUG stopped publishing their magazine, because the >member who was producing it quit. Suddenly SDMUG's treasury ballooned, >since they were no longer spending large sums to produce a slick >covered MAC magazine. By rights, they should have started paying SDCS >dues of $30/year like all the other SIG members did. Which brings up the interesting point. If they are collecting that much money and not spending it on the membership or on other non-profit activities, they are no longer non-profit as defined by the law. A rule of thumb is that you can get away with about 10% over your budget without incurring risk of loss of your non-profit status. Usual disclaimer IANAL or a tax advisor. Which might also makes previous boards liable, because they never did anything about it either. [snip] Gus "Time for a KPLUG party" Wirth -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
