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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
You elect someone you trust at the beginning of the semester, they budget out the set amount for meals and paying our cook, janitor and house dad, and then set the social budget, set aside a social slush fund, and what it generally costs to pay the utilities. Then you have officer salaries, money to go on retreats and to meetings and such, and then a general fund. If we're getting towards the end of the semester and haven't spent it, no one really minds if the treasurer spends some of the general fund running bar tabs or something.
And social chair and pledge trainer are no where near the job that treasurer is. I've been social chair, my roommate has been pledge trainer and I would never consider running for treasurer. It's easily the worst job in the house.
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There are several very good posts above this with some good points and observations. Can be re-read so no need to re-quote or post them here.
If the treasurer is going to "get paid", and given the way you explained your chapters policies in several postings, one of the ways to handle it is:
He is paid and he can use his monies any way he wishes to.
OR
As part of the open annual budget, he gets his own personal slush/entertainment fund set up. And that is the monies that he uses.
There is a comment made, several years ago, by a rather well known person: "Trust but verify".
And what is so bad about having a surplus in your buget? Why throw it away?