[Vision2020] Chamber President and FirstBank

[Scott Dredge]

Joan,

I can also look up my bank and brokerage accounts
online - and even my Alaska Airlines Visa account -
and get my balances to the penny.  However, if I were
talking to a reporter and for some reason I felt the
need to quote balances for any of these accounts I
would likely be off by a fair percentage.  We're
ratholing on this issue.

I'm not overly concerned about ballpark numbers that
come up in the course of a conversation with a
reporter.  My question is this...is the Chamber in
financial dire straits and, if so, why?

-Scott



--- Joan Opyr <auntiestablishment at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Dan and Tom:
> 
> I have exactly $153.75 in my checking account.  A
> quick look online at my bank record shows that they
> believe I have much, much more.  That's because some
> checks have yet to clear, some checks have yet to be
> mailed, and some balance transfers have yet to post.
>  Nevertheless, I know that my figure is accurate,
> right down to the penny.  How?  Because I practice a
> little something called double ledger accounting. 
> It isn't hard to do, and I'm not a CPA.  Double
> ledger accounting can be done electronically using
> any number of commercial software programs.   
> 
> But listen -- all of this is beside the point.  The
> Chamber of Commerce's finances should not be run
> like Jane Jetson's checkbook.  (George!  George! 
> Where's your wallet?  Astro has spaceworms!)  There
> is absolutely no excuse for the Chamber's books to
> be in disorder.  They have a bookkeeper.  They have
> an executive director.  They have a board
> responsible for financial oversight.  They should be
> able to accurately track money in and money out.  If
> they can't, then they need a new bookkeeper and/or a
> new director.  If the board isn't interested in
> arranging for those changes, then they clearly need
> a new board.  Let's make a few phone calls to Texas,
> see if we can get Sherron Watkins up here.  Remember
> her?  She's the accountant who figured out that
> Enron was money in, air out.
> 
> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> 
> PS: Just in case my checking account balance strikes
> some of you as sadly low, let me assure you that
> there's no need to stage an Auntie Establishment
> telethon.  I hate Jerry Lewis.  Also, I have a
> couple of savings accounts which I use to "hide"
> money from myself.  How's that for tricky-dicky
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