She now lives in Volusia county, which is outside of the counties in our by laws. Is that an issue? Not sure people who donated money would like their donations to go outside of where we originally told them. I am not saying I don't support this, just pointing out an issue.

Thanks.

Polly, THANK YOU for doing this and posting the results! 2 questions, can we breakout Dues from Contributions so we can clearly show any donations are going to charity and not associated with our operating expenses? #2. I don't understand the title of $42K for Charitable Donations YTD 2023, as I can't get that from the numbers posted.

Two very good write ups! Can't go wrong with either. The Krewe has doubled in size in the past 3+ years. Maybe our size warrants two, and have them be Co-MaA's?

Have they agreed to participate in a public ceremony where we inform them of what we will be giving them? local TV and newspapers would like to cover this!

Yes, but we still need to vet them (someone from the krewe should meet them in person), find out if we can go public with them, and then vote on it.

We should not give anyone money directly, it should be gift card to Home Depot or Lowe’s for appliances. $1500 - $2000 would be more than sufficient to buy appliances for each family. We need to deeply vent any of these, as we all have many questions about other support as well as how long will they be here (I personally hope many families return to Ukraine once it is safe to help rebuild a very proud country, that has truly been fighting for survival).

Are they willing to be included in a media presentation? We haven’t had a newspaper or tv attend our donation ceremony in a long time. Makes it hard to solicit new sponsors, and share with existing sponsors, how we spent their donations!

Teri and Tom Sackmaster will do the 5:30-6:30 Set Up

I feel sorry for Amanda and her kids, but I don’t see how this will fix her long term problem. Clearly she needs some guidance from a financial planner to get a budget in place that she can comfortably afford. She should be talking to a bank to help her get a loan to pay off the credit card bills at a much lower interest rate than what credit cards charge. That loan should also include the fees for her new housing. After she seeks help from financial people, then we should see how we can assist her, maybe furniture, kitchen supplies, etc. Other questions, why hasn’t the ex paid child support, if she just got divorced, that should be a new source of revenue for her. It takes at least 90 days to evict someone if they are current on payments, clearly we don’t know the whole story, and may never.

You will do great!

I think its a bit too early to ask for more money, as they got $5800 from us and around $2800 from the Go Fund Me account. As soon as she gets her Florida CNA Certification, I can get her a job the next day, assuming she is not a felon. He can get a job immediately at Atlantic Automotive, if we wants to stay as a mechanic. If they are struggling mid November, then I say lets give them more, but I think the ball is in their court and we should see how they proceed.

I got it

Welcome aboard.

Thx for following up on this!

Great to see she is still continuing to pursue her dream. Thx for following up with her.

We have a contact that can get her a CNA job as soon as she is Florida certified.

Tom & Teri plan to attend!

Roger, I just updated the poster, but its in a PDF format. Do you have any software to convert a PDF to a HIGH Quality JPEG? My software takes it from a 4.4mb file to 720K file when I convert it. If you do, can you convert the PDF above, post a high quality JPEG? BTW, the bar code of the previous file still took me to the Event Brite site, even though it was a little blurry.

Already have plans. 🙁