Plant sale figures and a renewed member

The plant sale figures are in:

Cash in the box was 672.00

minus starting cash -150.00 = 522.00

plus plants sold at Pam's + 127.00 = 649.00

minus potting soil - 57.24 = 591.76

minus advertising - 20.00 = a grand total of $571.76

This is our main fund raiser. According to our newly adopted 2012 spending plan, we hoped to add $800.00 to our coffers in 2012. Membership dues totaling $240.00 were collected in 2011 for 2012 giving a total of $811.76. Yippee!!

We (I) did not remember to include the expenses of the plant sale in our 2012 spending plan and so will want to remember to plan for about $60.00 for potting soil in 2013.

Our 2012 spending plan estimates yearly adverting at $30.00 so we have used up 2/3 of that and may wish to adjust that in our 2013 spending plan.

We did have a new site this year and with the persistently sluggish economy I think we did quite well.

Some suggesting mentioned for next year:

• We need to take better care to know what we are potting up. (We had a lot of iris and other plants that we labeled as mixed colors because we weren't sure of the colors).
• We also need to try to get a bigger variety of plants to sell. We had requests for more vegetables. Other requests?
• We should also have knowledge of the plants we are selling to advise the purchasers. We saw a lot of return customers and hope to get them back again next year.
• Anyone with suggestions about how to improve our next year sale should send them in to me or Kris.

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Renewing member Kim McDonald has been very busy this past year taking courses to become an EMT. She has passed all her tests including carrying 120 pounds up a flight of stairs!!

Kim also enjoys motorcycling and you may have seen her at Family Foods working the counter and registers. Congatulations and welcome back Kim!