My gut feeling is that we should be trying to increase revenue, membership levels, and other forms of income.
The numbers on the "cash-out" part of that PDF don't seem like they can really get any lower. We are really not paying very much for the services we are receiving. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:15 AM, Michael Kozakewich < mkozakew...@icosidodecahedron.com> wrote: > I'd trust your numbers more. Mine were just taking yours and adding some > estimates. > What I did do, though, is give numbers for selling the back rooms (at > least the two that made up the war room and the old elevator room) which > amounted to $200 or $280 (if we also got rid of the wood-working room). We > could also estimate keeping that $80 room and charging a couple members > $100 for pieces of it. > These numbers would adjust our income by a few hundred, which is enough to > bring us into usable levels again. If that large company donation goes > through, there go all our immediate worries. > > -----Original Message----- From: Mark Jenkins > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 1:04 AM > > To: discuss@lists.skullspace.ca > Subject: Re: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Lease Numbers > > Here my latest crunch: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/**16487130/skullspace_budget.pdf<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.pdf> > Though I haven't looked super closely at what you've posted Micheal to > find any differences. > > Changes since my last post of this: > * $83 per month "welcome back" fee, $3000 over 3 years added > * Removed common area electric rebate (cash in) and equal amount > electricity expense cash out, as we'll no longer be directly involved in > that flow of cash in and out > * Adding $60 per month for banking fees > * Adding $150 per month for insurance > > There's a good chance the rent for this "unfinished" space of ours will > turn into a "finished" space rent some day (such as 3 years) and we'll > want to move to another place with low "unfinished" rents. As such, > we'll need to need to save some cash not only for moving expenses, but > for basic necessary enhancements at the next place -- either that or as > a better stabilization fund to help us stay here even longer. So, I've > put most of the surplus into "savings for future digs" and $0 per month > into discretionary. > > I considered the Sniknej plan to be viable before when there was a > larger surplus, but with these changes I no longer see it that way. > > I also forgot to include the water bill in here, another oops.... not > putting in the time to fix... probably $30 per month or something. > > I will leave it to others to adjust these numbers to reflect proposed > re-allocations of space. Such adjustments would entail reduced rent and > heat and somewhat reduced electricity (I think not much given our low > current use). One should also guess how much we'll have to spend on > subdivision specific renovations when doing this. > > As for "enhancement" style renovations (anything not called for by > subdivision work, e.g. making a room more useful), I wouldn't even > suggest trying to imagine those being funded out of reserves or > operational revenues into loans anymore -- enhancement style renovations > are going to require strait up targeted fundraising and nothing more. > > I don't expect to take any more shots at cash flow projections for > awhile, if anyone else wants to take a shot, here's my ods and xls: > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/**16487130/skullspace_budget.ods<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.ods> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/**16487130/skullspace_budget.xls<http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16487130/skullspace_budget.xls> > ______________________________**_________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: > http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/**index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss<http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss> > Archive: > https://groups.google.com/**group/skullspace-discuss-**archive/<https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/> > ______________________________**_________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: > http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/**index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss<http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss> > Archive: > https://groups.google.com/**group/skullspace-discuss-**archive/<https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/> >
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