From: He Baoping <GRADLAB@VTVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: some qustions to IFCSS HQ
Reply-To: He Baoping <GRADLAB@VTVM1.BITNET>
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 05:26:38 GMT

I feel I am obligated to answer this posting on China-Net.  First, I
would like to thank Minsheng for sending donations to IFCSS and his
concern on IFCSS's financial situation.  Please let me to answer your
question piece by piece.

>Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 13:35:00 EST
>Reply-To:     MSZHANG@SUNRISE.BITNET
>Sender:       "China-Net (The Coordination Network for IFCSS)"
>>              <CHINA-NT@UGA.BITNET>
>From:         MSZHANG@SUNRISE.BITNET
>Subject:      Some questions to IFCSS HQ
>To:           "(he, bao-ping)" <GRADLAB@VTVM1.BITNET>
>
>I fully agree with Junwei's post of " Some thought on CCSA and IFCSS".
>It expressed the feeling of a lot of CSS. When I went through IFCSS HQ
>report on its financial crisis, I really felt a little uneasy about it.
>Several questions immediatelt jumped to my mind:
>
>1. In late August, I made a phone converaation with vicw President of IFCSS
>(newly elected 4th term) He, Baoping in trying to resolve the conflict
>between IFCSS HQ and Zhao, Haiqing group. In that conversation, He told me
>that the purpose of the HQ to establish the new account to collect money
>is simply that the CSSA account cann't be monitored by IFCSS HQ and
>other CSS. He emphasized that HQ have enough funding for its operation
>and thus CSS in general need not to worry that the HQ will use the money
>collected for other purposes.
>About one month later, the HQ is crying for financail crisis! Saying some
>of its members working without payment from June. Should I believe it
>this time?

First, I have to correct your mistake, you could not have made a call
to me on later August.  I was at Taiwan raising fund for IFCSS during
later August.  It must be later July.  I can repeat what I said again
IFCSS has many channels to raise fund, we don't have to relay on CSS-
Protection to servive.  The money raised in CSS-Protection has been
and will be soly for CSS-Protection activities.

>2. In the conversation, Mr. He assured me that the donation send to IFCSS/CSS
>Protection account would be available to Zhao group. Believing this, we sent
>most of our collected donation for the S1216 lobbying to IFCSS account. In
>sending out the money, we stressed that the money should be available
>to CSSA. Unfortunately, I finally found from both IFCSS HQ reports and
>CSSA's recent reports that all the fund sent to IFCSS had not been available
>to CSSA and IFCSS spent them all! Honestly speaking, I have a feeling
>of being cheated on.

Yes, IFCSS CSS-Protection account is still available to Zhao's group if
he can report his account to the IFCSS HQ and Council, and if his account
can not cover his expense.  You can not ask others to pay your bill
while you got the money.  BTW, IFCSS didn't spend them all!.  We used
the donation very carefully.  HQ's all the account are monitered by
professional accountant and can be checked by the Council.

>3. Another question lingering in my mind: in all the recent IFCSS HQ
>financial reports  and its budgets, I had a feeilng that all the spending
>and the income had been well balanced. So the financial crisis came seems
>quite suddenly. Has someone been trying to cover the crisis up? Or my
>memory is not good?

Yes, it should be well balanced.  But lobby activities have raised the
HQ expense dramatically.  The finacial difficulty did not come suddenly,
but before the bill passed the senate we didn't want to present this to
CSS.  CSS have got too many scareful news.  If you have read all the
e-mail in the past three months you would know what I mean.

>4. Personally speaking, I have not any hard feeling towards HQ staffs,
>even at this time. What I expect from this posting is hoping the HQ stuffs
>will improve their work in future and learn some thing from the past.
>One thing is quite obvious: the current President Geng, Xiao also was
>in charge of the financial matters for the 3rd term. If there had been
>a financial crisis since then, why you have not been thinking of doing
>some thing to overcome it in 4th term? Every one knows that donation loosely
>collected from CSS individuals should not be counted as a steady income
>for the operation of IFCSS, we should think of other ways to solve the
>problem this time, if we are serious enough hoping so.

>Minsheng

Thank you for your advice.  HQ has been and still is working on other
ways.  But, don't you think to call support from our own members is one
way.  If I tell you IFCSS has been supported mostly by American, Taiwan
and Hongkong publics, what do you think?

He Baoping
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