Catholic Women’s League of Canada | BC and Yukon Council

Submitted by: Elaine Audet

Good afternoon everyone. As your provincial treasurer I have fulfilled my duties as outlined in the Treasurer’s handbook, paid the bills in a timely fashion, deposited the money, prepared and distributed financial statements at Fall & Spring Mid-term meetings and Provincial convention. I prepared a budget and presented it at the Fall Mid-term meeting.

My goal has been to keep accurate account of all the records and to try to get the best return on our investments. Interest rates are currently very low so that is an area of concern – when I renew the terms, we will likely not get the rate of interest that we enjoyed the last couple of years.

The unaudited report for year 2008 is in your convention booklets for you to review at another time. I will not be going over that today. But everyone should have a copy of the balance sheet income statement from Jan 1/09 to April 30/09.

Membership total for 2008 (including some received in 2009) 9,604

Memberships received to end of April 2009 – 6,414.

We had to purchase a new laptop this past year as the old one was a little dated and just would not allow us to do the job we needed it to do. As the resale value of the old laptop would have been minimal, we voted to keep the old laptop and leave it with the Resolutions chairperson to use during convention rather than to disturb the secretary’s computer.