Newsletter Report

Hi All,

I regret I will not be at the Annual Dinner Meeting tonight. I am again down with a cold, have been doing a lot of coughing and sneezing today, and do not want to infect any of you, my good friends, with this misery.

I want to thank everyone for getting the submissions in to Liz on time this month. I appreciate the hard work, co-operation and teamwork that you have all put forth for the good of our Folk Project. And I especially appreciate Liz for all her hard work and dedication. I know, everyone will continue to expend their energies in an effort to get everything to Liz on time for the December Newsletter, and I thank you all in advance for that. This Month, we had 400 copies of the newsletter printed up. We mailed out 276 newsletters, including ten we sent to Rick for new membership. and the ten we sent to Morris Council of the Arts.

We did well for printing costs this month. With the discounts, and half of the $200.00 credit from the error made on the water bottles, we were able to lower the printing costs from $348.00 to $95.85 for a savings of $252.15. The postage costs came to $132.00 for 300 Stamps . So our newsletter costs this month were $95.85 from Staples and $132.00 from the Post Office for a total of $227.85 for this month.

In total, then, I need to be reimbursed $227.85 to bring the newsletter account up to its working level.

Now for the Recap figures for 2011:

Month Postage Cost Printing Cost Printing Savings

January $132.00 $332.00 discounted to $83.60 for a savings of $284.40

February $140.48 $366.00 discounted to $285.95 for a savings of $80.05

March $136.82 $366.00 discounted to $212.48 for a savings of $153.52

April $139.54 $366.00 discounted to $192.00 for a savings of $174.00.

May $139.74 $372.00 discounted to $279.34 for a savings of $92.66.

June $141.12 $372.00 discounted to $165.45 for a savings of $206.55

July $141.54 $386.00 discounted to $258.80 for a savings of $127.20

August $141.20 $386.00 discounted to $258.80 for a savings of $127.20

September $141.20 $379.23 discounted to $303.38 for a savings of $75.85

October $176.00 $264.00 discounted to $147.84 for a savings of $116.16

November $132.00 $348.00 discounted to $210.90 for a savings of $137.10

December $132.00 $348.00 discounted to $95.85 for a savings of $252.15

Totals $1693.64 $4285.23 discounted to $2494.39 for a savings of $1790.84

Hopefully I won’t be sniffling, sneezing and coughing by Friday, and will see some or all of you at the Minstrel. In any case, See you next month.

All the best

Carl Croce