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

[Terran McCanna]

+1 from me!

Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 5:42 PM Gagnon, Ron <gagnon at noblenet.org> wrote:

> Yes!
> Ron
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:19 PM, Timothy Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Could the remaining members of the board vote on this?
>>
>> +1 from me
>>
>>
>> <http://www.cwmars.org>
>>
>> Tim Spindler | Executive Director | CW MARS
>>
>> tspindler at cwmars.org | 508-755-3323 x120
>>
>> http://www.cwmars.org
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kathy Lussier
>>> Project Coordinator
>>> Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative
>>> (508) 343-0128
>>> klussier at masslnc.org
>>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kmlussier
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