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

[Mike Rylander]

Big +1 from me. Thanks, Kathy!

Regards,

Mike Rylander

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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 5:12 PM Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org> wrote:

> 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
> (508) 343-0128
> klussier at masslnc.org
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