<div dir="auto">+1 from me</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 4, 2018, 5:12 PM Kathy Lussier <<a href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org">klussier@masslnc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
In the Outreach Committee budget the Oversight Board approved in May, we<br>
had allocated $1,500 to go towards merchandise purchases. The allocation<br>
was based on what we anticipated the cost would be to replenish stock<br>
from last year and to possibly add one or two items.<br>
<br>
At the time, we had not planned on offering the conference t-shirts that<br>
were recently sold through the web site. Although those t-shirts are<br>
already paid for, the cost does need to be considered as part of our<br>
total merchandise expenditures and brings us above the $1,500 approved<br>
allocation.<br>
<br>
The following Google doc shows what we plan to purchase for merchandise<br>
to sell at the Evergreen booth this year -<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rNIfqjvxsPp1qafN4wnXKVlZt4Z4goFY6iXKB9ci62E/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rNIfqjvxsPp1qafN4wnXKVlZt4Z4goFY6iXKB9ci62E/edit?usp=sharing</a>.<br>
We have already ordered the quote t-shirts, the conference t-shirts, and<br>
the hats (the hats were very popular last year) at a total cost of about<br>
$1,383.<br>
<br>
We have held off on purchasing one of our new items - Evergreen bottle<br>
openers / keychains - because we don't want to exceed the budget.<br>
However, we would like to proceed with this purchase because our<br>
experience last year tells us that lower-cost items sell very well. It<br>
gives people an opportunity to buy something with an Evergreen logo<br>
without too much of a financial investment. We propose buying 150 of<br>
these bottle openers at a total cost of about $489.16. We expect the<br>
actual cost to be slightly lower since the shipping quote was based on<br>
shipping another item we ultimately decided against selling. We plan to<br>
sell them for $5 apiece.<br>
<br>
As a further note, we have already collected $650 from the pre-orders<br>
for the conference t-shirts. There will be a few extra conference<br>
t-shirts available for sale for those who did not get their pre-orders in.<br>
<br>
The conference committee was also successful in selling the $2,500<br>
merchandise sponsorship to help us stock the store and ship the items.<br>
Thank you PaILS for your support!<br>
<br>
We need to order the bottle openers / keychains by Friday to ensure they<br>
arrive at the conference on time. I'm hoping the EOB will consider an<br>
e-mail vote to increase our merchandise line item to $1,872 to support<br>
this purchase.<br>
<br>
Feel free to let me know if you have any questions!<br>
<br>
Kathy<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Kathy Lussier<br>
Project Coordinator<br>
Massachusetts Library Network Cooperative<br>
(508) 343-0128<br>
<a href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">klussier@masslnc.org</a><br>
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