Treasurer Note

 

 

 July  2026 -  Sonya Sallee

Well another year as your Department Treasurer, thank you so much for your support and encouragement.  I love working with all of you and helping you work through the changes that we have had processing dues and all the other things that we are doing.

 

In my years as Treasurer I have learned a few little tips when it comes to dues processing.  You need to get your first dues notice out very early like the second week of July.  As soon as MALTA comes back online, please get your first dues notice out.  I get a lot of my members pay their dues early when I do that. So please try to get those first notices out.

 

I know that National says that our Bonds need to be paid by August 31, 2026 but if we have all of our bonds paid by July 31, 2026, we get more points on the Circle of Excellence for our Department President. Again, I am striving to get the bonds done in July.  So please work hard to get your bonds done in July.  I will be calling people the last part of July if you don’t have them done. If you don’t have standing rules, please write them up and put the bond in it to pay it in July.  If you have standing rules, make sure the bond is in there.

 

I have been getting lots of auxiliaries that send me memorials for the members when they pass away.  When we use to have the Cancer program with the VFWA, they would send a message to the Cancer Society, and the Society would send a card to the auxiliary. That is not happening anymore and the money that I have been receiving from the auxiliary is going an into the Cancer grant fund or sometimes I give it to the National Home.  If you want to do a cancer memorial for one of your members, please send them to the American Cancer Society with the name of the member and they will notify you that they received it.

 

Hope to see many of you at the Academies in August, we are changing the things that we are going to talk about and I hope that you attend one of them.  I will also be doing some Zoom meetings and talking about all aspects of the treasurer and trustees duties. If you have any questions please let me know and I will answer them for you.  If you are having questions with the bookkeeping system on Malta please contact me and I will walk you through the process.  Remember MALTA will be down the first week of July and you can’t do anything on the system until it is back up. 

 

Sonya Sallee

Phone: 541-656-8088

Email: ortreasvfwa@gmail.com