2024-2025

Sonya Sallee

673 W Sandpiper Avenue

Hermiston, OR 97838

541-701-0496

ortreasvfwa@gmail.com

MAY

Well, we are getting close to the end of the year, and I am very proud of all members have taken the time to volunteer your time to be the treasurer for your auxiliary. It’s a very demanding job and I appreciate everyone that is interested in it. I know many of you have had questions and I don’t mind answering them. Remember there are no dumb questions, and I love helping other members with their questions. I hope that many of you are continuing with the position next year and if you aren’t please help the new treasurer to understand the job so they won’t get defeated.

I want to bring up some things that treasurers need to know at the beginning of the year. Please, if you don’t have the bond in your standing rules, please discuss how much money you are going to pay for your bond for next year at your June meeting.  If you have less than $10,000 in your accounts, then you only need to pay the $15.00 for the president and the treasurer. If your account is larger than this, please decide at your June meeting how much you are going to spend to make sure that your accounts are covered. Please make sure that you have your bond paid by July 31, if they are all paid by then we get extra points for the Circle of Excellence. The other obligation that all auxiliaries need to pay is the $2.00/member Hospital Obligation.

I know that we have asked for a lot of extra projects this year and it seems like we kept bringing up other things that we need money for but to start out we have the obligations, the bond, and then there is the National Presidents Special Project and the Department Presidents Special Project. We also have the Military Ball, the Run2Remember and this year we also had Loyalty day for the Portland Hospital. These are all programs that need our donations to continue to survive, and I realize that some of them weren’t discussed earlier in the year. Some of these programs we have been doing for many years so far and just remember to save a little of your donation money for later in the year so that you will have some money to help these other programs at the end of the year. Or if you want to, you can send the money for the Ball and the Run2Remember at the beginning of the year and I will already have it and won’t have to ask you later.

I hope these suggestions have helped you and please if you have any questions I would love to help you with them. Please come to the department convention in Pendleton for a nice time. We have been working hard to make this a great convention. If you have problems putting the information in the computer to buy your meals and the dance tickets, please contact one of the line officers and we will be glad to help you.