Our Gun Club is in danger.

[cooperhawk]

I am keeping records of everything. Paper records. I've experienced some of this before and am cautious.
Another problem is the gun club just hired my wife as their lawyer. Now I'm between a rock and a hard place.
She's honest so I'm not too worried.

[North Country Gal]

Sorry to hear about all the troubles. Hope things work out for you.

[BrokenolMarine]

I am keeping records of everything. Paper records. I've experienced some of this before and am cautious.
Another problem is the gun club just hired my wife as their lawyer. Now I'm between a rock and a hard place.
She's honest so I'm not too worried.

I was lucky, I had a great Treasurer.... Miss Tina. She kept wonderful records and I knew I could trust her. The National Director used OUR procedures as an example of the way TO do things.
When we transferred the Charity to the new leadership, it took hours as we had them sign for everything... and we meant everything. That left no doubt that the things we kept were OURS.


The things we kept were things we bought to use for the Charity, out of our own pocket, but didn't donate. We donated a lot, and those things went.
They were noted on the inventory.

501c3 is a tricky thing.
Clubs are different but have their own worries.
You read about it all the time. We had two signatures required on larger purchase requests, not required at first by National, but OUR policy. Since the President and Treasurer were Married, The VP signed off with one of us or the other.

[GFK]

Sorry about the situation. I am surprised that someone was not watching and checking the books. We have a small club, but a financial report is giving at each meeting. We also send a report of the minutes to each member. So, all members have an opportunity to view the Treasurer's report. It's not a big fund. But, we keep track of the spending. If the club grows, who knows.

[PatientWolf]

Im very sorry to hear about your troubles. My prayers go out that you will be successful in turning things around.

[Headhog]

Sometimes the right person, to fix the problem, gets the job. Seems to me this club knew whom they needed to make it right.

Paul

[Oldbrass]

Sorry to hear about your club. The American Legion is a wonderful organization, one of the reps came to my house once to help with VA claim with great success. I wish your club all the best and Thankyou for helping veterans. I even wish the embezzler good will but there's that Karma thing..

[cooperhawk]

Well, things are moving along. I have a Zoom meeting in half an hour to discuss what to do with the money when we sell.
Then tomorrow another meeting with the lawyers discussing alternatives.
I guess we've had some offers for the land but don't have the details yet.
The city finally gave up and said they don't have the money, so now we should get between 5 and 8 million for it.
I will be very happy when this is resolved.