[Imc-finance] Global Bank Account Balance:

[Sascha Meinrath]

Hi All,

Here's information on the Global Indymedia Account.  Also, remember that
we have a summary wiki webpage of our proposals at:
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/ImcFinance

--Sascha

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:02:12 -0600 (CST)
From: Sascha Meinrath <sascha at ucimc.org>
To: Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net>
Cc: "sheri at speakeasy.org" <sheri at speakeasy.net>, imc-finance at ucimc.org,
     finance at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: Re: [Imc-finance] Global Bank Account Balance

Hi all,

I'm back in the states and getting caught up on things.

The Global Indymedia account currently has $21,679.15 in it -- but there
are several proposals that still need to be processed (e.g., funding
disbursed and allocated for).  The following are still
outstanding/yet-to-be-reconciled internally:

Proposal 2003-H: $450 to IMC Beirut.
Proposal 2003-I: $50 to CMI Brasil (São Paulo).
Proposal 2003-K: $500 to IMC Chiapas (Cancun).
Proposal 2003-M: $3275 to CMI Brasil.
Proposal 2003-N: $500 to IMC Bolivia.
Proposal 2003-O: $300 to IMC Beirut.
Proposal 2003-P: $579 to IMC Chiapas.

For a total of $5654 (plus disbursement expenses) in additional
allocations.  And there are also 2 proposals:

Proposal 2003-J: $2,144 Loan to IMC St. Louis. STATUS: PENDING.
Proposal 2003-L(revised): $100 to CMI Argentina.

Which are still pending.

Thus, at best there is around $16,000 left in the Global Indymedia
account (and probably closer to $15,000).

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Mike Lehman wrote:

> Sheri,
> I'm the one who can write checks in Sascha's absence. However, I don't
> keep the books, so we'll need someone elses's assistance to determine
> what the global finance account has in it.
>
> Russ, are you around and can you answer Sheri's request?
>
> Sheri, I do know that several hundred dollars have come in to help
> global over the last few days. A group of the notifications from PayPal
> was posted here to the UCIMC finance list this mroning, so if you're on
> it, you should have seen those.

These are earmarked for the Global Tech.

> Zach, do you know how long it takes for those funds to be deposited with us?
>
> Sheri, sorry I can't help more right now. We should receive some replies
> in the next day or so. I know Sascha will be back at the end of the
> week, which will answer all, so I hope that this will hold until then if
> we can't come up with some answers right away for you.
> Mike Lehman
> UC IMC
>
> sheri at speakeasy.org wrote:
>
> > hi everyone,
> >
> > would like to say thanks for all the assistance and support and energy
> > you have all individually and collectively put into the global
> > indymedia network over the past few years.  thank you!
> >
> > i know there's going to be another proposal soon to the global finance
> > list and i think it's a good idea for everyone to know what the global
> > bank account balance is when making decisions about disbursing funds.
> > i'm supportive of this proposal, that's not the issue.  just we need
> > to get in the habit of awareness of our financial situation and one
> > way to do that and to "train" people to do that is by giving them the
> > critical information about where we are financially.  especially since
> > the global network lacks any kind of comprehensive or even
> > non-comprehensive plan for raising money for the network.
> >
> > if you could provide that and post an email to the imc-finance list
> > for global, that would be great.
> >
> > i know sascha is away to ireland on vacation and i didn't know which
> > person was overseeing that aspect of his work.
> >
> > also, is there a place to find the urbana's lists?  they aren't on
> > lists.indymedia.org and i couldn't find an easy way to find them off
> > your website.

Our lists are located at:  http://lists.cu.groogroo.com (which is our
community webserver that we run).

--Sascha

> > peace and happy new year!!!
> >
> > sheri
> > seattle imc