President’s Column

Your Board Members met for their annual retreat at the end of August.  At that meeting, we adopted a budget.  We heard reports from several committees. We discussed the member picnic and the Birdathon.  We continued planning our Annual Banquet in February.  We established the board meeting schedule for the coming year.  We discussed Nominations of candidates for board. 

Fiscally we are doing better than in the past.  Our total assets are $134,000 including cash and land.  Last fiscal year, our total revenues were $14,200 while we spent only $10,800.  In the coming year we expect to receive $8,500 in revenues while our projected expenses will be $5,800.  Any members with ideas for improvements to the birding infrastructure or to habitat preservation will be welcome to present their ideas to the board.

The Humboldt County Breeding Bird Atlas committee gave a Status Report.  Data collection phase is over and maps and species accounts are being produced.  To date, 41 illustrations have been purchased.  The publication fund balance is almost $4000.  The board asked the committee to return with a timeline for publication and a budget.