Paperwork

Last night, I finished preparing our 501(c)(3) application for DC Diamond Circulate, Inc., the not-for-profit we've been assembling to host the International Association of Gay Square Dance Club (IAGSDC)'s 2009 convention in Washington, DC. This morning, I photocopied all of the required attachments, created a list of questions for our legal advisor to confirm that our application is in order, and prepared conflict of interest declaration forms for my fellow board members to complete at tonight's meeting. If my educated guesses are correct and the feedback from the rest of the committee is positive, this package can go off to the IRS for an advance ruling next week.

Which only leaves another four years of paperwork still to go...

Paperwork

Last night, I finished preparing our 501(c)(3) application for DC Diamond Circulate, Inc., the not-for-profit we've been assembling to host the International Association of Gay Square Dance Club (IAGSDC)'s 2009 convention in Washington, DC. This morning, I photocopied all of the required attachments, created a list of questions for our legal advisor to confirm that our application is in order, and prepared conflict of interest declaration forms for my fellow board members to complete at tonight's meeting. If my educated guesses are correct and the feedback from the rest of the committee is positive, this package can go off to the IRS for an advance ruling next week.

Which only leaves another four years of paperwork still to go...

Scott McLellan's Resignation

Bush's spokescritter/press secretary Scott McLellan resigned yesterday. The first thing that cross my mind was simply: "What took you so long?"

This had the single ugliest job in the American federal civil service. What kind of life must you have when you accept a position where you're required to lie on camera to the entire planet almost every day? Your primary responsibility is to cover the ass of your boss and answer for his errors because the boss isn't smart/brave/honest enough to do the job himself. Bush is spending more time on vacation than any prior president; surely he could knock off a few vacation days to hold a press conference himself regularly rather than hiding behind the wood shed. True, Scott could always count on his friends at Fox News to take him out for a martini after work, but the rest of the news media routinely attacks him like a piñata almost every waking hour of the day --and justifiably so, IMHO.

Some free advice to Scott:
You're unemployed now. Do yourself a favour: go somewhere on the planet where no one knows or cares who you are and simply read a few good books for a month. Rediscover your humanity, especially since you've been separated from it for a few years now. When you're ready, go do something useful & constructive for a change.

Scott McLellan's Resignation

Bush's spokescritter/press secretary Scott McLellan resigned yesterday. The first thing that cross my mind was simply: "What took you so long?"

This had the single ugliest job in the American federal civil service. What kind of life must you have when you accept a position where you're required to lie on camera to the entire planet almost every day? Your primary responsibility is to cover the ass of your boss and answer for his errors because the boss isn't smart/brave/honest enough to do the job himself. Bush is spending more time on vacation than any prior president; surely he could knock off a few vacation days to hold a press conference himself regularly rather than hiding behind the wood shed. True, Scott could always count on his friends at Fox News to take him out for a martini after work, but the rest of the news media routinely attacks him like a piñata almost every waking hour of the day --and justifiably so, IMHO.

Some free advice to Scott:
You're unemployed now. Do yourself a favour: go somewhere on the planet where no one knows or cares who you are and simply read a few good books for a month. Rediscover your humanity, especially since you've been separated from it for a few years now. When you're ready, go do something useful & constructive for a change.

2009 IAGSDC Convention Meeting

Tonight's meeting of the committee running the 2009 IAGSDC convention went fairly well.

1. My 501(c)(3) documentation was well received and the committee has agreed I should forward it now to our legal adviser for review... those particular 1s and 0s were e-mailed off minutes ago.
   
2. My conflict of interest policy was approved and conflict of interest declarations were signed by myself and the other two corporation officers.
   
3. We agreed to grab "dcdc2009.org" and "dcdc2009.com" for our domain name. We already have dcdiamondcirculate.org/com but these are likely too long for most people to use comfortably. We'll keep the longer version anyway, just to ensure no one else grabs them.
   
4. We got our employer identification number (EIN) earlier this week.
   
5. We'll have a post box before this time next week (as secretary, I'll hold the mailbox key).
   
6. I've been appointed registrar. My plan is to hold the title for 2006/7 to set up the systems and work with abqdan to see how we can take advantage of the IAGSDC web site registration system. discord35: I'll be in touch soon too to see what nightmares you encountered in the role for the 2000 convention. apparentparadox: warn your hubby I'll be contacting him too. :-) Once I'm sure we have solid processes in place, I'll delegate the role to a minion volunteer for 2008/9 as I'm sure I'll be busy with other director duties, as well as possible GCA responsibilities.
   

Now I just have to type up the minutes of the meeting, but that's tomorrow's problem. I'm going to bed now.

2009 IAGSDC Convention Meeting

Tonight's meeting of the committee running the 2009 IAGSDC convention went fairly well.

1. My 501(c)(3) documentation was well received and the committee has agreed I should forward it now to our legal adviser for review... those particular 1s and 0s were e-mailed off minutes ago.
   
2. My conflict of interest policy was approved and conflict of interest declarations were signed by myself and the other two corporation officers.
   
3. We agreed to grab "dcdc2009.org" and "dcdc2009.com" for our domain name. We already have dcdiamondcirculate.org/com but these are likely too long for most people to use comfortably. We'll keep the longer version anyway, just to ensure no one else grabs them.
   
4. We got our employer identification number (EIN) earlier this week.
   
5. We'll have a post box before this time next week (as secretary, I'll hold the mailbox key).
   
6. I've been appointed registrar. My plan is to hold the title for 2006/7 to set up the systems and work with abqdan to see how we can take advantage of the IAGSDC web site registration system. discord35: I'll be in touch soon too to see what nightmares you encountered in the role for the 2000 convention. apparentparadox: warn your hubby I'll be contacting him too. :-) Once I'm sure we have solid processes in place, I'll delegate the role to a minion volunteer for 2008/9 as I'm sure I'll be busy with other director duties, as well as possible GCA responsibilities.
   

Now I just have to type up the minutes of the meeting, but that's tomorrow's problem. I'm going to bed now.