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On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:11 PM Matthew Thode |
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<prometheanfire@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 18-07-12 12:02:14, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 11:52 AM Matthew Thode |
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> > <prometheanfire@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > The board has been unable to raise monies to effectively pay for correct |
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> > > operation of the nonprofit. |
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> > > I'm not sure what you mean, but we receive a bit more money than we |
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> > > spend every year... |
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> > Sure, but you're not operating correctly. |
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> Also arguable. But that was not the claim. |
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The claim was that you don't have enough money to CORRECTLY operate |
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the nonprofit. |
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The fact that you have enough money to INCORRECTLY operate the |
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nonprofit doesn't really do much to shake this... |
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> > > The other points have some validity to them though. Currently our tax |
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> > > burden is unknown (because of the CPA moving unfortunately). |
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> > This is hardly a recent development. |
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> Yes, we should have moved faster, not arguing that. |
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Sure, my point is just that this isn't a case of us having a CPA doing |
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their job all along, and six months ago something came up and it is in |
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the process of being fixed. |
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As far as I'm aware we've never filed a tax return in over a decade. |
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Now, I don't know exactly where the gap is, but this is a serious |
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problem. |
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> There will be at least a first pass election no mater the candidate |
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> count. The second election, if we don't have enough trustees above the |
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> re-open nomination option, will be run. |
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Not exactly a sign of a healthy org. I'm torn on accepting the |
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nomination on the "antarus platform" but it feels like we're just |
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doing it wrong. I'd very much want to see us more more towards a |
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model that doesn't require much in the way of overhead to operate. An |
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umbrella org is one approach. I guess the other alternative is to |
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give up the trademark and go with a zero-infra design, but the latter |
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at least would take some effort and a lot of change. |
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Rich |
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