{news} proposal to reimburse Chris Reilly for rent payments
edubrule
edubrule at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jun 14 00:34:29 EDT 2005
I have already e-mailed this proposal (which I wrote) to many State Central Committee members, but I figured I'd post it to the News (and Forum) listserves as well, so that people within the Party could discuss it and comment on it. It is attached to this e-mail and pasted below.
Please do not comment on this proposal on the News listerve--use the Forum listerve instead. (To join the Forum listserve, go to www.ctgreens.org and click on "listserves" at the top left of the home page.) Alternatively, you can send comments to me (edubrule at sbcglobal.net).
I'm hoping to find cosponsors (individuals or chapters) of this proposal and to have it considered by the July or August SCC meeting.
--Ed DuBrule
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Green Party Meeting Proposal Form
PRESENTER: cosponsors being sought
CONTACT: Ed DuBrule, 39 Outlook Ave, West Hartford CT 06119-1432, 860-523-4016, edubrule at sbcglobal.net
SUBJECT: Reimbursement of Chris Reilly for rent payments he made
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
The SCC on 11/14/2000 agreed that the Hartford chapter would pay half the rent and half the utillities of the Hartford office, and that the CTGP would pay the other half of the rent and utilities. (The April 2004 SCC meeting decided that the CTGP will no longer pay half the rent and utilities of the office.)
In 2003-4, during the period when Bruce Crowder was treasurer, Chris Reilly paid $2,650 of his own money to the landlord of the Hartford office, New Britain Ave. Real Estate, LLC.
The reasons Chris made these payments have been explained in the minutes of the August 2004 and October 2004 SCC meetings, written by secretary Ed DuBrule (Appendices 1 and 2). In e-mails to Ed dated 9/8/04 and 11/7/04, Chris Reilly stated that these minutes extracts are accurate. Bruce also commented on the accuracy of the August SCC minutes extract, saying, in part, "This seems fairly accurate, except that I don't think I ever 'asked' Chris to cover any bills. More like he offered and I agreed, but that's not an important distinction." Bruce's complete comments are in Appendix 3. (Ed did not request that Bruce comment on the accuracy of the October SCC minutes extract.)
The dates and amounts of Chris' rent payments are in Appendix 4.
In brief, the reasons why Chris chose to pay the landlord from his own pocket are:
(1) For months previously Chris had handled the rent payments.
(2) There were problems transitioning from the former treasurer (Chris Nelson) to Bruce. Among these problems were an inability of Bruce to write checks because he hadn't gotten the Party's checkbook and because of problems with bank paperwork.
(3) Often in the past Greens had spent thousands of dollars of their own money and had been reimbursed later by the CTGP.
(4) Chris expected that the CTGP would send out an annual fundraising letter to thousands of Connecticut Greens, as in past years, and that this letter would bring in many thousands of dollars, as in past years, enough to reimburse him. (Despite this expectation, a fundraising letter to only 1000 Greens was sent out, many months after Chris had made most of his rent payments, and it netted only at most $500.) In past years about $2,000 in postage and printing costs had been required to send out the annual fundraising appeal, and one reason Chris paid the rent was so that the CTGP checking account balance could be preserved and used for these costs. (When Bruce took over as treasurer, the CTGP checking account held only $2000 or less.)
Six of the seven rent payments made by Chris were made in the period April 2003 through September 2003. One additional payment toward the rent was made by Chris in March 2004; Chris explained this payment as follows: The GP/CT, for whatever reason (perhaps financial?) only sent a check for $350. Because the rent was $500, I needed to make up the difference with $150 of my own money". [E-mail response to Ed, 5/27/05.]
During 2003-4 Chris also paid money from his own pocket to cover CTGP envelopes, postage, printing, and domain name registration expenses. The October SCC decided to reimburse Chris for these expenses at a rate of $74.24 per month over twelve months.
PROPOSAL:
(A) The SCC should state that the CTGP will pay back Chris for the entire amount of the rent payments he made ($2,650).
(B) Payments from the CTGP to Chris for the rent expenses should start at the rate of $75.00 per month when the twelve monthly payments of $74.24 for the postage and other expenses have been finished. The $75 monthly payments should continue without interruption until the entire rent-associated expenditures of $2,650 have been paid to Chris, except that if the financial status of the CTGP improves the SCC may decide to increase the monthly payment amount to Chris.
Appendix 5 discusses the question of the Hartford chapter's financial responsibilities in this matter.
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Appendix 1. Minutes extract of August 2004 SCC meeting.
3. Budget (Appendix 5)
(a) Budget item relating to unreimbursed expenditures made by Chris Reilly. One line of the proposed budget is payment of $900 to Chris Reilly. Chris distributed a handout (available from the Secretary) showing amounts he spent from his personal funds which were never reimbursed. The budget entry says "this is partial re-payment; balance to be repaid in future budget years".
The handout begins with a check for $800, paid by Chris to the landlord of the Hartford office on 4/1/03 for April and May rent. It includes 5 other rent checks paid to the landlord of the Hartford office ranging from $150 to $500. The sum of the rent checks is $2650.
The handout also includes 10 checks, ranging from $6.29 to $370, for envelopes, postage, and printing; these ten checks sum to $855.82. Finally, the handout includes one check for $35 for domain registration renewal for the CTGP website. The sum of the rent checks, envelopes/postage/printing checks, and domain name check is $3,540.82, and Chris is requesting reimbursement from the CTGP of this amount. The last check on the handout was written 3/12/04.
Chris explained how these unreimbursed expenses had come about. He said that the November 2000 SCC meeting had decided that the state Party should pay half the office rent and utilities; he was one of two people at this meeting to vote against this decision. He was Party treasurer for several years and had gotten in the habit of paying the rent.
Bruce Crowder became treasurer as a result of the February 2003 internal elections. There were problems transitioning from the former treasurer (Chris Nelson) to Bruce. Among these problems were "problems with the accounts" and an inability of Bruce to write checks because he hadn't gotten the Party's checkbook. Bruce, Chris continued, asked Chris to pay the rent.
Chris described how for several years he did the bulk of the work in getting the annual CTGP fundraising letters out. These letters had cost, each year, about $2000 in printing, postage, and related expenses. Greens had donated, as a result of these mailings, about $8000 each of these years, for a net gain to the Party of about $6000 each year. During the period May to September 2003, the SCC repeatedly affirmed that it wanted a fundraising letter to go out, as in previous years. Chris continued to pay the office rent out of his personal funds, expecting that he would be reimbursed from the proceeds of the fundraising letter. The fundraising letter finally went out in September 2003; the handout includes, as noted above, expenditures Chris made for envelopes/postage/printing for this mailing. [Note from the secretary: it appears, from the dates on the handout, that Chris also spent money for envelopes/postage/printing for the mailing associated with the March 2004 internal elections.]
Chris said that he stopped paying the rent when proceeds from the fundraising letter came in to the Party.
Lynah asked if the Executive Committee during this time (co-chairs Tom Sevigny, Justine McCabe, and Mike DeRosa; Bruce as treasurer; Ed DuBrule as secretary) had known of these facts. Tom said that Bruce never informed that Executive Committee of this situation. Justine said that she hadn't known of this situation.
Elizabeth Horton Sheff pointed out that Chris said that Bruce had asked Chris to pay the rent. Elizabeth believes that expenditures authorized by a treasurer are legally binding on a Party. Chris said he agreed with the latter statement; the state Party is therefore responsible for reimbursing him. Justine pointed out that the SCC had agreed to pay only half the office rent and half the office utilities--how does that affect this situation? Chris pointed out that the Hartford chapter should have gotten 30% of the proceeds from the fundraising letter.
Justine said that it would be desirable for Bruce Crowder to come to an SCC meeting to explain what happened. Chris pointed out that Bruce used to report chapter balances to the SCC, including the large negative Hartford chapter balance which related to this situation.
Lindsay and Jean asked why Bruce hadn't reimbursed Chris from the proceeds of the September 2003 fundraising letter. Ed DuBrule pointed out that the proceeds of that fundraising letter were much smaller than previous fundraising letters. (Ed attributed this, in part, to Chris not being involved in many of the details of getting the letter out in 2003--others Greens merged chapters' mailing lists and made the arrangements for postage and printing, details that in the past Chris had handled.) (Ed and Chris spoke of many bags of bad-address envelopes returned from that mailing; per the mailing plan selected with the post office, each of these bad-address envelopes required the Party to pay a 92 cents fee to the post office.)
Chris agreed with Ed that over time the quality of our mailing lists have deteriorated. Ed said that the Executive Committee, at its August 2004 meeting, had spoken of a desire to get the 2004 fundraising letter out the third week in September. He wondered if that was a realistic goal, in view of the deterioration in quality of the mailing lists.
Tom noted that last month the SCC passed a set of financial policies for the CTGP and that the SCC at tonight's meeting was discussing a budget. The CTGP has never had such financial policies before, nor a budget; these deficiencies may have allowed the situation of Chris' unreimbursed expenditures to arise.
Elizabeth Horton Sheff said that in her opinion Chris should be reimbursed, for both legal reasons and because he acted with the best interests of the CTGP in mind. She hoped that the issue of whether or not to reimburse Chris would not become reduced down to the legal issue of whether Bruce had approved each check written by Chris from his personal funds. Elizabeth Brancato said that it is the opinion of the Executive Committee that this is a true debt owed to Chris. Elizabeth also said that Bob, our current treasurer, has done excellent work; he should be protected from any legal issues arising from the failure of the CTGP to reimburse Chris.
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Appendix 2. Minutes extract of October 2004 SCC meeting.
Unreimbursed expenditures of Chris Reilly. The Executive Committee requested that Chris make a presentation to the SCC tonight on his unreimbursed expenditures. During his presentation, Chris responded to the questions raised in the Women's Caucus proposal on those unreimbursed expenditures (Appendix 1). That proposal includes the following questions:
"1) why Chris Reilly, founder of the GPC and former treasurer, did not communicate the presence of the loans to at least two of the co-chairs (Tom and Justine), despite his obvious knowledge of GPC process;
"2) why Chris wasn't repaid (if the loans were regarded as short-term and 'informal' by Bruce and Chris) once there was income from a fundraising letter;
"3) why half of the rent for the Hartford office wasn't paid by the Hartford chapter, even if the SCC half was paid through a loan from Chris."
Chris passed out an Excel spreadsheet listing expenditures he made and for which he has not been reimbursed. The spreadsheet lists 17 expenditures; the earliest is dated 4/1/03 and the latest is dated 3/12/04. Six of the expenditures are rent payments for the Hartford office. The rent payments range from $150 to $800 and total $2,650. Ten of the expenditures are for envelopes, postage, or printing. They range from $6.29 to $370 and total $855.82. Finally, there is a $35 check made out to Network Solutions for domain registration renewal for the CTGP website. The total of the unreimbursed expenditures is $3540.82.
Chris passed around, for viewing by all SCC attendees, a cancelled check, cash register receipt from OfficeMax, receipt from the US Postal Service, or similar documentation for each of the seventeen entries on the spreadsheet. Tim, the facilitator, asked if any attendees had any questions relating to the receipts and cancelled checks that Chris had passed around--no one did.
Chris said that the November 14, 2000 SCC meeting had decided that the state party would pay half the rent and half the utilities for the Hartford office. At this time the rent was $400 per month. For months after that the CTGP treasurer wrote a check for the entire rent for the office and made an accounting entry for the Hartford chapter's half of the rent (this accounting entry was made in the Hartford chapter's "setaside" account, also known as the "chapter balance"). During this period Chris sent the treasurer a reminder that the rent was coming due, the treasurer sent Chris the check, and Chris brought the check to the landlord.
Then in February 2003 Bruce Crowder was elected treasurer. In early April 2003 Chris learned from Bruce that the rent hadn't been paid for two months. Due to problems with bank paperwork, Bruce had been unable to sign CTGP checks. Bruce agreed that Chris should pay two months' rent ($800--March and April), and Chris did this. Later the landlord informed Chris that they had received a $400 check from Chris Nelson, the former treasurer, so that the $800 paid by Chris became rent for April and May. Chris straightened out the problems at the bank with the paperwork.
Chris said that in 2000 the CTGP had raised over $25,000, including nearly $9,000 from the annual fundraising letter. In 2001 almost $15,000 had been raised, including close to $10,000 from the letter. But in 2002, after Chris had stopped being treasurer, a fundraising letter did not go out. Thus in early 2003, when Bruce took over the treasurer position, the party checking account held only $2000 or less. It required about $2,000 in postage and printing costs to mail the annual letter, so Chris proposed paying the office rent for a month so that CTGP funds could be used for the mailing. Some progress was made toward putting together the maiing--Ed Savage worked on merging the chapters' lists. The next month Chris e-mailed Bruce and again offered to pay the office rent.
Chris distributed an excerpt from the minutes of the 7/21/03 Executive Committee meeting. Chris' handout included, in part, the following:
5. Hiring of staffperson(s). A proposal submitted by Tim McKee to the Executive Committee is appended ....
The Executive Committee will need to write a job description ... Due to the Connecticut Green Party's low bank account balance, it would make sense to hire this person, perhaps, as an independent contractor, though reservations were expressed as to whether progressive organizations should be using independent contractors ....
The Executive Committee would post the position opening/job description .... The Executive Committee would interview candidates and make a recommendation as to hiring to the SCC. ... A proposal will be submitted by the Executive Committee to the July SCC meeting.
6. Fundraising. The annual fundraising letter (sent out in September last year) might bring in $2500 (a guesstimate). Perhaps, because of the low bank account balance of the Connecticut Green Party, postage could be spent on sending the letter initially to 1000 names. With donations received from this initial mailing, the rest of the names could be mailed to. Or a loan from a Party member could be sought for postage costs.
Chapters should be encouraged to hold fundraisers, sharing revenues with the state.
Chris pointed out, in particular, the sentence above which reads "Or a loan from a Party member could be sought for postage costs."
Chris distributed an excerpt from the minutes of the June 24, 2003 SCC meeting. The attendees at that meeting included all members of the Executive Committee (co-chairs Mike DeRosa, Tom Sevigny, and Justine McCabe; secretary Ed DuBrule, and treasurer Bruce Crowder). Chris' handout included, in part, the following:
5 Treasurer's report. The Party bank account has holds $2,200; $1200 is owed in debt. In a typical month, there is $400 in operating expenses but only $300 comes in.
Chris said that the $1,200 owed in debt referred to the rent payments he had made thus far. At this meeting, much to Chris' embarrassment, Mike publicly thanked Chris for paying the rent. Other minutes from this period also mention a debt in the Treasurer's report, Chris said, though a calculation may need to be made. Tom read the Treasurer's report in one of those minutes.
Eventually a mailing was done to 1000 names. It had a poor financial return. It raised at most $1500 but cost nearly $1000 to do. No follow-up mailing was done. Therefore Chris did not ask for reimbursement at this time.
Bob Eaton was elected treasurer in March 2004. By this time the office rent had risen to $500 per month. One of the rent checks on Chris' spreadsheet is for $150--Bob wrote a check for $350 and Chris wrote a check for $150.
Ed DuBrule said that he had sent an e-mail to Bruce a few days ago, asking if Bruce could come to tonight's meeting, but received no reply. Bruce had told the Executive Committee previously that he is now very busy with graduate school and a new job. Ed said that he has multiple copies of an e-mail from Bruce relating to these matters which he could distribute.
Question 1 above asks "why Chris Reilly ... did not communicate the presence of the loans to at least two of the co-chairs (Tom and Justine), despite his obvious knowledge of GPC process". Chris said there has never been clear process in the CT Green Party; there has been talk of putting together a policy-and-procedures manual, but no one has ever done it. (Elizabeth reminded us that the July 2004 SCC meeting passed a proposal on financial management.) Chris pointed out that he worked with the treasurer, Bruce, in these matters. Andy asked if Mike and Ed, who had been on the Executive Committee during these events, had known about Chris' spending his own money. Mike said that he had been generally aware of the situation. Ed said that he had been aware that there was a problem involving Chris' spending his own money, though he hadn't understood the details. Lynah said that the Executive Committee had failed in its responsibility to inform the SCC of the situation.
Mike said that often in the past Greens spent thousands of dollars and were reimbursed later by the Connecticut Green Party. Chris agreed with this statement.
Question 3 above asks " why half of the rent for the Hartford office wasn't paid by the Hartford chapter, even if the SCC half was paid through a loan from Chris." Chris said again that the Hartford chapter's share of the rent was paid for (in some sense) by an accounting entry in the "setasides" account (Hartford chapter balance). The Hartford chapter balance is now large and negative. Chris further noted that per an SCC decision, 30% of donations made to the CTGP are sent back to the chapter of the donor--the failure during 2003 to do a fundraising mailing which included Hartford chapter members had left the Hartford chapter low on funds.
Chris said he hoped that a successful annual mailing could be done soon. He said, however, that he was concerned about the condition of the mailing list.
The facilitator asked if the secretary could put into the minutes that Chris had addressed all the questions in the Women's Caucus proposal to the best of his ability. There were no objections to this request. Elizabeth said that the intention of the Executive Committee was that Chris should not have to spend his time at future SCC meetings addressing this issue; the hope was that all questions chapter members had could be addressed tonight. Chris had also explained the unreimbursed expenses at the August 2004 SCC meeting.
The meeting turned to the proposal from the Executive Committee on partial repayment of Chris (Appendix 2). Mike, Ed DuBrule, and Elizabeth explained that this proposal divided Chris' unreimbursed expenses into two categories: expenses related to the rent payments for the Hartford office, and other expenses (envelopes, postage, printing, and website domain name registration). The Executive Committee feels that consensus may be reachable tonight on repaying Chris the "other expenses"; more discussion among SCC members and chapter members may be needed before consensus is reached on reimbursing Chris for the rent-related expenses. This proposal totals the "other expenses" ($890.82--see proposal) and proposes paying back Chris this amount at the rate of $74.24 per month for twelve months.
SCC DECISION: By consensus the SCC passed this proposal.
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Appendix 3. Bruce Crower's comments on the minutes extract of the August SCC meeting:
e-mail from Bruce to Executive Committee members sent 9/16/04:
Hi Ed. This seems fairly accurate, except that I don't think I ever
"asked" Chris to cover any bills. More like he offered and I agreed,
but that's not an important distinction. I think it was awfully
considerate of him to do this. I would agree with EHS that these were
authorized expenses -- authorized by the chapter -- and we have a
commitment to reimburse Chris. I'm pretty sure we did discuss this at
exec meetings and I know at least Tom was aware of the situation but
perhaps my memory fails me.
One thing to note is that half of the rent for the office comes from
the Hartford Chapter. At some point after I took the rent payments
back over from Chris, I began the practice of only paying the SCC
portion because the Hartford's balance was in the red. If Chris
covered the rest of those particular payments out of his pocket, it
seems to me that he should get his reimbursement from the Hartford
chapter. If the Hartford chapter cannot reimburse him for those
payments, then the SCC may decide to increase the Hartford debt to the
SCC by that amount.
I'd say the chances of me coming to an SCC meeting are pretty small. I
just started graduate school and a new job and any spare time I devote
beyond that comes out of my sleep. Hope things are going well.
-Bruce
On Sep 13, 2004, at 9:40 PM, edubrule wrote:
> Hi Bruce: how are you?--long time no see! The SCC is now considering
> a one-year budget for the CTGP--one line of that proposed budget would
> pay back $900 to Chris Reilly for unreimbursed expenses. Future
> years' budgets would pay off the rest of Chris' unreimbursed expenses.
> Over the past couple of months, the Executive Committee
> (Elizabeth Horton Sheff, Elizabeth Brancato, Mike DeRosa, Bob Eaton,
> and I) has set aside time to learn about the circumstances of Chris
> having spent so much money without being reimbursed. We asked Chris
> to submit the details of those unreimbursed expenses--he submitted a
> spreadsheet (attached to this e-mail.) We have concluded that
> we believe that Chris be should be reimbursed the entire amount
> ($3540.82). One reason we believe this is because we believe that
> expenses authorized by a political party's treasurer are legally
> binding on the party.
> This issue was discussed, as part of the discussion on the
> proposed budget, at the August SCC meeting. A section of my minutes
> for that meeting--not yet "published"--is pasted below. During that
> SCC meeting I proposed that Chris explain the circumstances of his
> expenditures, and Chris and the SCC agreed that Chris should make that
> explanation. We, the Executive Committee, feel that it is proper that
> you should be given the opportunity to comment on what Chris said and
> what I have written. Further, we ask that you do submit written
> comments on what Chris said (e-mail response fine); we propose to
> bring those comments to the SCC, as information related to the
> decision to be made by the SCC as to whether the budget should include
> $900 to begin reimbursing Chris. Chris reviewed the minutes extract
> below and said that they are an accurate representation of what he
> said at the SCC meeting.
> I believe you have had some discussion of these matters with Bob
> (860-379-0632). I'm sure he'd be willing to talk further with you, as
> would I (860-523-4016). I have cc'd this e-mail to the members of the
> Executive Committee, and to Chris.
> I hope to "publish" my minutes later this week. They are long
> overdue (they're supposed to be published within one week of the
> 8/31/04 SCC meeting). The September SCC meeting will be, as usual,
> the last Tuesday of the month (9/28/04); we plan to hold it in
> Middletown or Portland (location still being worked out).
> --Ed
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Appendix 4. CTGP finances during the period Chris made the rent payments from his own funds.
[Word file created from Excel file month-by-month 2003-4 rents payments.xls.]
month
rent charged
Chris paid
Hartford chapter paid
CTGP paid
Sheff campaign paid
Totals
charged to Hartford chapter balance
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Apr-03
$400
$400
0
0
0
$400
0
May-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Jun-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Jul-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Aug-03
400
400
0
0
0
400
0
Sep-03
500
500
0
0
0
500
0
Oct-03
500
0
0
1,000
0
1,000
500
Nov-03
500
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dec-03
500
0
0
500
1000
1,500
250
Jan-04
500
0
0
0
0
0
0
Feb-04
500
0
0
350
100
450
100
Mar-04
500
150
0
0
0
150
0
Totals
5,500
2,650
0
1,850
1,100
5,600
850
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Appendix 5--the question of the Hartford chapter's financial responsibilities in this matter.
During consideration by the SCC of this proposal, questions about the Hartford chapter's responsibility for repaying Chris all or part of the $2,650 will undoubtedly discussed.
At least two approaches to the issue of the Hartford chapter's financial responsibility are possible:
(1) One view is that Chris' rent payments were authorized by the CTGP treasurer (Bruce), and that expenditures authorized by a treasurer are legally binding on a Party.
(2) A second view might be that since the Hartford chapter was supposed to pay half the rent each month, perhaps the Hartford chapter should be held responsible for paying Chris half the $2,650, with the CTGP responsible for the other half.
$1,100 was contributed to the office rent during the period April 2003-March 2004 by the Elizabeth Horton Sheff campaign for Hartford City Council. (The Sheff campaign made use of the office.) (See table in Appendix 3.) If viewpoint (2) is adopted, how (if at all) does this $1,100 contribution alter the amount that the Hartford chapter should pay Chris?
The concept of a "chapter balance" (also known as a "chapter setaside account") arose from an SCC decision that when a donation is made to the CTGP (at least in response to an annual fundraising letter) 30% of the donation should be given back to the chapter in whose geographic territory the donor resides. Chapter balances arose when these donations were not immediately distributed to the chapters; in this case the chapter balances were considered positive (the CTGP owes the chapter money). When the Hartford chapter failed to pay its half of the rent on many occasions, the rent was paid from CTGP funds, with an accounting entry made debiting the Hartford chapter balance for the amount of the rent it owed. (At least this is the way the system worked in theory; as column H in the table in Appendix 4 shows, during the period April 2003 through March 2004 the debits to the Hartford chapter balance account were made erratically.)
The cosponsors of this proposal believe:
(a) Chris should be fully reimbursed from some source. The basis of this belief is ethical, and/or to maintain interpersonal cohesiveness and trust among Party members, and possibly legal (see view [1] above).
(b) The reimbursement should be made from CTGP funds. The basis of this belief is pragmatic (the CTGP historically has done better at raising money and paying debts than has the Hartford chapter), and possibly legal (see view [1] above). If the reimbursement is made fully from CTGP funds, this matter can be conceptualized as a series of loans from Chris to the CTGP. (Chris made his checks out to the landlord, but he could have made them out to the CTGP.)
The cosponsors of this proposal also believe that if the CTGP pays Chris $2,650, the Hartford chapter must be required to pay back the CTGP half of this amount (i.e. $1,325). Work must be done to properly compute the current Hartford chapter balance, in light of the problems seen in column H above. The process of properly computing the Hartford chapter balance must also ensure that the Hartford chapter was properly credited in the past (30% of the donation) for donations to the CTGP made by people living in the geographic territory of the Hartford chapter. Over time the Hartford chapter could reduce its chapter balance to zero. (If the Hartford chapter balance remains negative after corrections are made, it can only reduce its chapter balance to zero by making payments to the CTGP.) If the problems seen in column H above are corrected, the Hartford chapter will pay back the CTGP its share of the rent payments in the course of reducing its chapter balance to zero.
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