Hello everyone and welcome to my final report as VPF,
First, let’s take care of business. I am currently trying to close all director budgets as the term is coming to an end, so if any of you have receipts that you have not yet submitted, then please do so. Also, if you are no longer require any more funds from your budget, please tell me so I know and can possibly use that money to help other directors that have gone over budget. Right now, we look like we are going to end up about $3000 under budget (that is ~$1000 in the black). I doubt this is truly where we are at, so please submit receipts ASAP so I can get final numbers sooner rather than later, and all you lovely EngSoc members can be informed.
I would also like to thank all the lovely directors that were amazing at getting me budgets on time. Everyone was awesome at discussing their requirements with me when needed so I could fit everyone into the budget. I tried supplying previous budget information to new directors to help them figure out how much money they need, and my goal over the coop term is to compile the spending information from this term and previous terms in order to include it in a budgeting guide for new directors.
That is all I have to report from finances, so I would like to thank everyone for making this a great experience for me. As exec, I was able to see another side of the Engineering Society and I would like to convey a message to all readers. Exec members are students just like everyone else here, and aren’t super students, and don’t get breaks from school work to do what they do, and yet still try their hardest to maintain this juggling act. I have also seen that, perhaps, our biggest weakness is our advertising. It truly is difficult advertising events and services when our generation is so desensitized to advertising, and it is easy to be lazy about it when no-one seems to acknowledge any form of publicity. So all I ask is, while we try to figure out better ways to get information out there, if you want to know what’s going on, just ask. Anyone involved in the Engineering Society would love to tell you all about what is happening.
Arrivederci,
Mina
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