The comment has come up that the Congress or for that matter, the AMHR Nationals financial reports are not available to members. YES THEY ARE, all you have to do is ask Joe in accounting for it.... I called Joe just to confirm what I already knew. He stated there are no secrets in his office and your welcome to call and request information from him.. You the member have a right to ask for any information of the registry!!
So with that, please call and get the reports. I am sure you can ask Joe anything you want.... He will answer your questions.
I personally would like a more detailed report with the expenses broke down into more categories. I have heard this complaint before. The Seven-Year Analysis does not tell us where we are spending the money.
I feel we cannot continual to operate the Congress at a loss. This year $29,789.18. IN THE RED.
Over the last seven years $130,000.00 plus has been lost on the Congress.... We need to figure out how to change it..... Obviously we are not sticking to a budget or there is no budget to the Congress?? Please do not tell me we lost it on the stalls, we did not, we made $31,705 on stalls and please do not tell me we picked up an extra day... Base rent flat fee of $25,000 same as last year. Yes, that Facility may have cost more, but we made more is as far stalls.
I see we did the concession stand this year $565.00 in food/refreshments last three years "Zero".
We made $273.00 in shavings, typically a facility with give you a kick back of 50 cent to $1.00 on every bag sold. I asked Cathy in the office what was the count of horses... She stated 515 even though the analysis sheet states 535. Regardless, at 500 horses and a minimum of 2 bags per horse we should have seen $500 to $1000.00 profit on shavings. If you tell me we only got a QUARTER kick back then the budget crew should have passed that QUARTER on to the exhibitors as the goal here is to break-even, not lose $29,000.
All Things Equine – Trophies:
Awards for the Congress - $16,595.25, with ribbons and cooler - total $26,300.80.
Awards for the Mini Nationals - $14,417.16, does not include ribbons or youth trophies. Does this make sense that the Nationals awards are less then the Congress?? The mini Nationals supports ifself, when is the Congress going to do the same?
Bottom line, show expenses increased by $22,000 plus and revenue increased by ony $5,068.45. If you had a show program printed you would see more of an additional losse to the $29,000 as the program book cost $3,365.18 in 2008, but there was no show program because we couldn't afford it in the budget!
The Congress is a heck of a deal with $65.00 stalls, $30 Open, $20 Amateur, $10 Youth class entries fees, $5.00 office fee per horse, etc. for the exhibitor compared to other national level shows, with the awards & ribbon budget way over the top!!!! I am not for increasing costs to the exhibitor as you will never make up the difference of $29,00 plus for the Congress by increasing the fees but we do need be realistic about the fees. With the amount of money that is spent on awards and ribbons, we need to have a reality check that we have CHAMPAGNE taste with BEET BUDGET revenue for this show.
The question we should ask, how are we covering these losses?? That is the question, exactly how have we covered a deficit of $130,000.00 on Congress these past years?? Something has got to change to achieve a break-even event!!!!
I know of no institution out there that would continual to give its blessings to losses like this?
So with that, please call and get the reports. I am sure you can ask Joe anything you want.... He will answer your questions.
I personally would like a more detailed report with the expenses broke down into more categories. I have heard this complaint before. The Seven-Year Analysis does not tell us where we are spending the money.
I feel we cannot continual to operate the Congress at a loss. This year $29,789.18. IN THE RED.
Over the last seven years $130,000.00 plus has been lost on the Congress.... We need to figure out how to change it..... Obviously we are not sticking to a budget or there is no budget to the Congress?? Please do not tell me we lost it on the stalls, we did not, we made $31,705 on stalls and please do not tell me we picked up an extra day... Base rent flat fee of $25,000 same as last year. Yes, that Facility may have cost more, but we made more is as far stalls.
I see we did the concession stand this year $565.00 in food/refreshments last three years "Zero".
We made $273.00 in shavings, typically a facility with give you a kick back of 50 cent to $1.00 on every bag sold. I asked Cathy in the office what was the count of horses... She stated 515 even though the analysis sheet states 535. Regardless, at 500 horses and a minimum of 2 bags per horse we should have seen $500 to $1000.00 profit on shavings. If you tell me we only got a QUARTER kick back then the budget crew should have passed that QUARTER on to the exhibitors as the goal here is to break-even, not lose $29,000.
All Things Equine – Trophies:
Awards for the Congress - $16,595.25, with ribbons and cooler - total $26,300.80.
Awards for the Mini Nationals - $14,417.16, does not include ribbons or youth trophies. Does this make sense that the Nationals awards are less then the Congress?? The mini Nationals supports ifself, when is the Congress going to do the same?
Bottom line, show expenses increased by $22,000 plus and revenue increased by ony $5,068.45. If you had a show program printed you would see more of an additional losse to the $29,000 as the program book cost $3,365.18 in 2008, but there was no show program because we couldn't afford it in the budget!
The Congress is a heck of a deal with $65.00 stalls, $30 Open, $20 Amateur, $10 Youth class entries fees, $5.00 office fee per horse, etc. for the exhibitor compared to other national level shows, with the awards & ribbon budget way over the top!!!! I am not for increasing costs to the exhibitor as you will never make up the difference of $29,00 plus for the Congress by increasing the fees but we do need be realistic about the fees. With the amount of money that is spent on awards and ribbons, we need to have a reality check that we have CHAMPAGNE taste with BEET BUDGET revenue for this show.
The question we should ask, how are we covering these losses?? That is the question, exactly how have we covered a deficit of $130,000.00 on Congress these past years?? Something has got to change to achieve a break-even event!!!!
I know of no institution out there that would continual to give its blessings to losses like this?