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Thursday Mar 2, 2017 #
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OUSA work continues apace, though more sluggishly than I had hoped. The barriers are both institutional and personal: whether because of our timidity or process, taking actions seems to require time and meetings. I also have not been as dedicated and persistent as I need to be to push our agenda forward.
The budget and our current limitations at monitoring our financial state continue to occupy a lot of attention. Barb, Pat, and I have been auditing the tracking of team funds - which are maintained in a separate spreadsheet based on exports from our official accounting.
Apart from addressing budget concerns and transparency, my two biggest priorities are communications and advancing our growth agenda. Communications has a committee (CommComm), and we are working towards a comprehensive internal communication and publicity strategy for better communicating within OUSA, with the membership, and with clubs. Our growth agenda - largely bereft of unrestricted funds for 2017 - has the 50th anniversary fundraising money to support some of its goals. But we as the Board haven't yet arrived at a SMART (acronym) set of objectives for this money. I hope that results from how we allocate it in 2017 will inform how we budget for 2018; my deepest concern is that we'll blow through the ~30k without a lasting impact on the community.
The budget and our current limitations at monitoring our financial state continue to occupy a lot of attention. Barb, Pat, and I have been auditing the tracking of team funds - which are maintained in a separate spreadsheet based on exports from our official accounting.
Apart from addressing budget concerns and transparency, my two biggest priorities are communications and advancing our growth agenda. Communications has a committee (CommComm), and we are working towards a comprehensive internal communication and publicity strategy for better communicating within OUSA, with the membership, and with clubs. Our growth agenda - largely bereft of unrestricted funds for 2017 - has the 50th anniversary fundraising money to support some of its goals. But we as the Board haven't yet arrived at a SMART (acronym) set of objectives for this money. I hope that results from how we allocate it in 2017 will inform how we budget for 2018; my deepest concern is that we'll blow through the ~30k without a lasting impact on the community.
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Considering renting this guy for a US team+friends haus for team trials:
https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/8460191?locale=en
https://www.airbnb.ca/rooms/8460191?locale=en