TREASURER'S REPORT
As anticipated Solicitor General Sustaining Funding continued to decline
this year per federal government budget cuts. The 2 person CAEFS office
has endeavoured to keep expenses within budget as funds decrease and workload
steadily increases by improving office efficiency and productivity. To facilitate
this CAEFS has purchased and is now using a computerized accounting program
making it easier to retrieve detailed data, track expenditures, and monitor
and control the budget; this in turns gives a clearer picture of CAEFS financial
situation. The computerized system is also less time intensive meaning that
CAEFS no longer has as a separate contract for bookkeeping; and the cost
of our annual audit decreased this year because the financial records were
in such good shape.
CAEFS also receives a reimbursement donation for time devoted by Kim Pate
to the work of the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and National
Associations Active in Criminal Justice(NAACJ). These honoraria have been
used to offset the cost of staff travel, a laptop computer for staff use
outside the office and at Board meetings and to upgrade the office fax machine
to a more cost-effective model machine to a more cost effective model. The
office also has the use of a NCPC computer, with E-Mail, a modem and Internet
for as long as Kim is on the Council.
As a result of these efforts and the generosity of our corporate sponsors
the CAEFS office was able to stay within its budget this year.
During the CAEFS AGM delegates will vote on a new funding model and regional
structure which will enable our network to work more effectively with and
on behalf of the women we serve.
CAEFS, as well as other national voluntary organizations, continues to face
financial challenges as a result of government cuts. These challenges can
only successfully be combatted with increased efforts to find additional
sources of funding and by using existing resources even more efficiently.
Mollie Gardiner, Treasurer
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