RE: money for meals | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Rob Sandelin (robsanmicrosoft.com) | |
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 10:51 CDT |
I could tell you this at lunch, but then nobody else would hear so: Sharingwood * charges a flat fee for meals * Collects money monthly. You mark off your name if you are not going to attend, otherwise you get billed for that meal. Weekly sign up sheets are kept by the mailboxes. * Cooks buy some food and give receipts to treasurer for credit towards meal account * Meals cost $2.00 per adult, $4.00 for non-cooking adult, $1.00 for kids. Guests are charged same as adults, although most the time we forget to ask. * If someone only occasionally has a meal, and they do not cook in a rotation they pay more. If they do cook, they pay the regular price for any meal they eat. * No we have one bank account for the whole association and meals are just added to your monthly assessments. We have one person who is bookkeeper and keeps all the numbers straight. She has set up a spreadsheet for each household and keeps a separate line item for dinner accounts and then just adds that total to the regular monthly assessment and bills us. * We don't pay income tax that I am aware of, we just hired an accountant who reviewed our books and filed our taxes for us. I don't believe we had to pay any money, we just filed the papers. I recommend using an accountant to do your association tax filing, we didn't and made some mistakes and had to pay some penalties (we are appealing these). * we buy food together in bulk from a wholesaler once a month. Everyone can get in on this order and we often buy big quantities of things (like flour, rice, toilet paper, etc.) and save big over retail. They even deliver our order right to us. (Nutrasource) * We don't pay sales tax on meals. Paying sales tax on community dinner is not acceptable. * We have probably re-invented community dinner more than anything else we do. We try out a system and if it doesn't work,we just try something else. I heard from the folks at Nyland that they started off using a token system for meals but they found that keeping track of tokens was too much work. We are lucky that we have several service minded people who volunteer for big jobs like bookkeeping. I imagine if we didn't have such a dedicated bookkeeper we would have to use some other system. Rob Sandelin Sharingwood
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