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

Garry Collum Garry.Collum at kentonlibrary.org
Thu Apr 5 13:32:09 EDT 2018


I'm late to the party.  +1 from me.


Garry

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From: eg-oversight-board <eg-oversight-board-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org> on behalf of Kathy Lussier <klussier at masslnc.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2018 9:09:45 AM
To: Timothy Spindler
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Subject: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Request from Outreach Committee for merchandise purchase


Thanks everyone!

Kathy

On 04/05/2018 07:51 AM, Timothy Spindler wrote:
Kathy,

It looks like you have approval from the board.



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On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 7:39 AM, scott.thomas at sparkpa.org<mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org> <scott.thomas at sparkpa.org<mailto:scott.thomas at sparkpa.org>> wrote:
I approved of this.

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: eg-oversight-board [mailto:eg-oversight-board-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:eg-oversight-board-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org>] On Behalf Of Sharon Herbert
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 5:24 PM
To: eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto:eg-oversight-board at list.evergreen-ils.org>
Subject: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Request from Outreach Committee for merchandise purchase

+1 Great idea, thanks!

Quoting Timothy Spindler <tspindler at cwmars.org<mailto:tspindler at cwmars.org>>:

> Could the remaining members of the board vote on this?
>
> +1 from me
>
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> <http://www.cwmars.org>
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> Tim Spindler | Executive Director | CW MARS
>
> tspindler at cwmars.org<mailto:tspindler at cwmars.org> | 508-755-3323 x120
>
> 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<mailto: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-<mailto:eg-oversight-board->
>> bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org<mailto: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<mailto: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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