The Indralaya (Orcas Island Foundation) Board of Directors met in the camp library on Saturday and Sunday. This was the initial meeting of the new Board. Meg Sather and Lin Bauer were welcomed to their first meeting (see the week of Oct. 25-31 for some background on Meg and Lin), and in the wake of her six months as kitchen manager, Crystal Mossman was welcomed back and reappointed to the Board.
After these and other formalities, the meeting continued with a morning retreat. The retreat was intended as a time for Board members, along with Leonie and me, to establish a foundation for working together in the coming year by setting aside the usual business of a board meeting to spend some time collectively attuning to the deeper rhythms of camp.
The first order of business after the retreat was the election of officers. For the coming year, Jeannie Chamberlain will serve as Chair, Kim Erickson was elected to be Vice Chair, Laurie Rotecki, Secretary, and John Levey, Treasurer.
A key agenda item for this meeting was the adoption of an operating budget for 2011. The approved budget estimates operating income of $226,000 for next year. Operating income is composed of program income (estimated at $151,000 for 2011), donations ($35,000), member dues ($8,500), bookstore sales ($5,500), and investment income ($26,000).
There are six operating expense categories: program, outreach, hospitality, facilities, management, and administration. The 2011 budget estimates operating expenses of $254,222, which would result in a projected net operating deficit for the year of $28,222. Major expense line items are food (budgeted at $30,000), building, grounds and equipment maintenance ($26,500), part-time maintenance staff ($22,500), depreciation ($33,200), manager stipends ($28,800), and insurance ($17,000). $5,000 has also been allocated for the acquisition of new bed mattresses, as we begin to establish a regular schedule for mattress rotation.
Going once, going twice ...
Friends of Indralaya member dues will be increasing in 2011. The dues for membership were last changed in 2004. Dues for an annual membership will be $40, a family membership will be $80, and life memberships will be $400. These changes will become effective on January 1, so now is the time to consider renewing your annual membership or becoming a life member at the current level.
Kitchen Manager & Garden Coordinator
If you or someone you know is interested in living and working at Indralaya for several months as either the kitchen manager or garden coordinator, please contact us for more information about these core staff positions.
It’s back!
The blue dinghy that washed up at Near East Beach several weeks ago (see Oct. 25-31), and was last seen heading north, has returned to Indralaya’s shores. It is now set upon the rocks south of Near East, perhaps on its way back to wherever its journey began.
Two roads diverged ...
In the aftermath of last week’s winter weather, we’ve learned that driving over snow on the Indralaya meadow leaves tell-tale evidence of the Gator's presence ... and as Robert Frost might have added, ‘though as for that the passing there had worn them both about the same...’
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