The member-plus option was tabled pending the budget discussion. FY 97 Budget Update and FY 98 Budget Presentation Hal handed out a copy of the SIGAda financial report for FY96. He also presented the FY97 monthly report up to October 96. A draft FY98 budget is due by the end of December 1996. Hal explained the FY98 budget and how the areas of grants and WG budgets were slightly changed from FY97.
Membership is projected to continue to decline.
Discussion also occurred on the topic of changing the frequency of Ada Letters to 4 issues per year. This extra effort would be paid for by funds from our surplus. Hal has action to produce a comparison spreadsheet showing 3 years of budget. Paul Rivera to investigate the impact on postage rate and regulations. Ed Colbert to investigate costs in conjunction with Walnut Creek.