Budget 2009 q3

concerns for q3 and onward

• Income is about $40k more per quarter than previously budgeted
  • Recycling income
    • NCER reimbursement is outright more than anticipated, about $3500/mo
    • Other recycling income is up largely due to increased gold shipments, primarily because we are getting more stuff donated, also increased steel and better price for it. Liane anticipates a dip in donations in september, followed by a bump back up in october. She thinks 12,000 per month is a reasonable and conservative estimate (up from $10,500).
    • per Dave, there are arrangements in the works which could more than make up for a dip in donations
  • Sales
    • per Tony, sales numbers (around $49k) were high in april and may because of laptop ramp-up which got a large backlog into the store. More recent number around $44k is more reasonable for ongoing, but he thinks a reasonably cautious estimate is more in the $40-42k range. Additionally, online sales may add something but it is too early to say.

• adding max headroom
  • adds 2250-2400 to monthly budget with same staffing
• adding one prebuild intern
  • cost - $1,317.56 $12.67/hr $12.75 to round up
• add on the side - one collective member with all the trimmings
  • cost - $2,622.06 $15.13 $15.25 to round up
• if we do a single fulltime americorp position, what is the annual cost??
  • Ali says it was $10k 2 yrs ago
  • George is currently looking into Americorps info and will get back with the number

• 6 months to get 200,000 in reserve
  • need $60k moved to reach this goal
  • could move $40k now
  • net for this year so far is $65k but we were uncomfortably low at the beginning of the year.

• adding a committed?
  • if hours-neutral would add $367.40 for health care in a typical case.
  • changing a nother to a committed would also mean they would get health care, which means that effectively their cost would go up but in an indirect way.

Production

add $500/ quarter for power supplies.