With her husband's "success" with his Scrip program I'll bet she thinks it's a good idea to restart it!
I'd ignore her unless she's really yammering, in which case I'd show her the paperwork, coorespondence with the congressman and IRS bills, then tell her she'll need to tie up all the loose ends with the previous program before you can launch another paper one [img]tongue.gif[/img] .
People never cease to amaze me--they can be positively scary sometimes!
To heck with working out details with her on a scrip program!! Show her the paperwork and kindly point out to her that it shows that the scrip and other fundraisers were not as successful as what you are currently using. When she sees those numbers I'll bet she backs down. After all, how is she going to explain the "loss"?
It's great when someone comes in with new ideas and wants to try to make the group more successful, but that doesn't sound like that's her goal. She's trying to shove something down your throat that you have proof would not be in the best interest of your organization.
Lost scrip IS money. If there is no accounting to what happened to the "unsold" scrip, it is quite possible that "perhaps, and maybe" it was used by a certain someone.....you may already know. You know.. no ACTUAL money was taken but something else was...
Our current treasurer went back in the quicken records she has and found a balance sheet from when the husband of our newcomer was treasurer. It looks really bad, but we have no way of knowing whether it's accurate or not. It shows that they paid almost $72,000 for scrip but only took in $36,000 in payments for it. We have no idea what happened to the scrip and/or the extra money. We also found that all of the fundraisers she claimed she made so much more money on actually made about half of what we are making.
We told her we would consider doing scrip in the fall, but that we would have to work out details with her. At that point we would have to put in checks and balances so that she never handles money.
The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating-in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life. --Anne Morris
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