Submitted by Jeff Stone, Chairman of Subud California at Santa Cruz
We have 28 members out of 43 listed who attend often enough to be counted as active members, including one member who does Latihan at home with Ralph Davila. We have 2 active men helpers and 2 active women helpers. Our scheduled Latihans are Wednesday and Sunday. Sunday is well attended, but Wednesday attendance is sporadic, better attended by the women than the men.
We have a Chairman/Councilor, a Vice Chairman, and a Treasurer, but no Secretary. The Vice Chairman has not been very involved up to now. We have 2 Rental Coordinators. There is no regular meeting schedule currently, but I hope to implement regular Dewan meetings this Fall, which I hope will lead to general membership meetings and kejiwaan events.
Our monthly pledge to the Region has been made every month this year. Payments on our loan were made in January, May, June, and July, and we will make one for August.
Rental income, ever since the construction on our building, had been down as a result of he disruption in our rental business by the loss of the use of the building during construction, and by a rough economy. However, things have been picking up. with several new rentals scheduled. Rachmat is close to working out a deal with two new groups who are interested in renting out our facility on a monthly basis. One is a deal with a swing dance group and the other is with a walking meditation group. We are hoping to start making extra payments on our loan beginning in September until we catch up.
Our long time treasurer Oswald Lake has been the sole person with access to our banking account and records. He is coming up on 89 years, so I spent time with him recently to pick his brain on all the essentials. This makes me the backup treasurer if needed.