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We do this, with the exception of bid day and formal pictures and formal shirts, everything is included. As VP Finance I have each office draw up a budget for the expences and I review them to make sure we aren't assessing, then out area financial assistant does the same and then I send everything into our accounting control center. Its not hard to include everything, and in our case we didn't have to raise dues to include sponsor gifts, paddles for bigs and shirts for greek week and derby days. If I did have to raise due I would show them the budgets and show how much we make off of dues every semester, what we pay to nationals etc. then tell them how much easier it is when you don't have to keep forking out money. In our case we have the second highest dues on campus so I would try to aviod raising dues as it would make us less competitive. Remember when reviewing your chapeter budget to cut overspending on useless things and increase it on what we call manditory spending, if you have to pay for it to participate thats maditory spending, and the chapter HAS to cover it. I hope it works out for you, its easier then it sounds if you have a solid budget.
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