[Eg-oversight-board] Request from Outreach Committee for merchandise purchase

[Sharon Herbert]

+1 Great idea, thanks!

Quoting Timothy Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org>:

> Could the remaining members of the board vote on this?
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> +1 from me
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> <http://www.cwmars.org>
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> Tim Spindler | Executive Director | CW MARS
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> tspindler at cwmars.org | 508-755-3323 x120
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> http://www.cwmars.org
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> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:17 PM, Holly Brennan <haderhold at ci.homer.ak.us>
> wrote:
>
>> +1 from me. I like having those lower-cost/useful items for sale.
>>
>> -Holly
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: eg-oversight-board [mailto:eg-oversight-board-
>> bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of Kathy Lussier
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 1:12 PM
>> To: eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org
>> Subject: [Eg-oversight-board] Request from Outreach Committee for
>> merchandise purchase
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In the Outreach Committee budget the Oversight Board approved in May, we
>> had allocated $1,500 to go towards merchandise purchases. The allocation
>> was based on what we anticipated the cost would be to replenish stock from
>> last year and to possibly add one or two items.
>>
>> At the time, we had not planned on offering the conference t-shirts that
>> were recently sold through the web site. Although those t-shirts are
>> already paid for, the cost does need to be considered as part of our total
>> merchandise expenditures and brings us above the $1,500 approved allocation.
>>
>> The following Google doc shows what we plan to purchase for merchandise to
>> sell at the Evergreen booth this year - https://docs.google.com/
>> spreadsheets/d/1rNIfqjvxsPp1qafN4wnXKVlZt4Z4goFY6iXKB9ci62E/edit?usp=
>> sharing.
>> We have already ordered the quote t-shirts, the conference t-shirts, and
>> the hats (the hats were very popular last year) at a total cost of about
>> $1,383.
>>
>> We have held off on purchasing one of our new items - Evergreen bottle
>> openers / keychains - because we don't want to exceed the budget.
>> However, we would like to proceed with this purchase because our
>> experience last year tells us that lower-cost items sell very well. It
>> gives people an opportunity to buy something with an Evergreen logo without
>> too much of a financial investment. We propose buying 150 of these bottle
>> openers at a total cost of about $489.16. We expect the actual cost to be
>> slightly lower since the shipping quote was based on shipping another item
>> we ultimately decided against selling. We plan to sell them for $5 apiece.
>>
>> As a further note, we have already collected $650 from the pre-orders for
>> the conference t-shirts. There will be a few extra conference t-shirts
>> available for sale for those who did not get their pre-orders in.
>>
>> The conference committee was also successful in selling the $2,500
>> merchandise sponsorship to help us stock the store and ship the items.
>> Thank you PaILS for your support!
>>
>> We need to order the bottle openers / keychains by Friday to ensure they
>> arrive at the conference on time. I'm hoping the EOB will consider an
>> e-mail vote to increase our merchandise line item to $1,872 to support this
>> purchase.
>>
>> Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!
>>
>> Kathy
>>
>>
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>> Kathy Lussier
>> Project Coordinator
>> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
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