2025-2026

Sonya Sallee

673 W Sandpiper Avenue

Hermiston, OR 97838

541-701-0496

ortreasvfwa@gmail.com

SEPTEMBER

Well, another month is passed and getting ready for District meetings and Western Conference around the bend in Boise.  It has been a busy month for me, hardly home between National convention and Academies that we have had.  Good to see new people at the Academies and a lot of good information was passed by members and by chairman.  I really love going to the Academies and am unhappy that I won’t be at the last one as I am going on a cruise that week.  I think that there should be a nice crowd at the last one also.

Thank you all for getting your bonds in early, I was very glad that we got them done.  We have gotten them all by the end of July for the last three years, so we need to keep doing that every year.  Remember if you have more than $20,000 in your accounts then you need to pay more than the $30.00 that we all normally pay.  There isn’t a lot of auxiliaries that have more money than that but just remember if you have a large amounts in your checking and savings account.

There is a new thing coming down from National this year.  After the first of the year the application forms that are being used now will be null and void.  They will be putting the new applications online closer to the end of the year but please don’t send the old forms in after the new year.  Members will be able to pay for their annual memberships with a credit card starting the new year.  The new application form will have no information for the potential members credit card information.  The only information that will be there is their name, phone number and email address. When the department treasurer gets the application, they will send them into national and National will call or email the applicant to send them a link to put in their credit card information.

Once the credit card is approved, National will let the Department Treasurer know that and they will be able to download the application into Malta where it will be stored, so the Department Treasurers will not have to save all those applications any longer.  And eventually the treasurers can download their older applications so the members can all be in Malta.

All of the Department Treasurers are going to be attending a Zoom meeting with National at the end of September so I will be having some Zoom meetings during the month of October to help talk you through the new program.  I am hoping that they will have the applications ready for us to look at and use for training by the time that we have those meetings.  I know that this will make it easier on everyone and that financial information of our membership isn’t lying around in treasurers offices or even getting taken out of mailboxes to be used for unlawful means. Please, if you have any questions please contact me and I will get back to you with your information.  Hope to see you at the Zoom meetings.