Treasurer Advice

[PrettyinPearls]

Due to the lack of focus on enforcing rules (especially finacial ones) in the past, our chapter has gotten itself into a bit of trouble. I just recently pledged in the spring of '08 and have been handed all these issues, along with many other girls in eboard positions.

To put it simply, we're in debt and it's because girls don't pay their dues. I was basically thrown into the treasurer position because of lack of interest, and I'm pretty much willing to do anything that will help out our chapter right now.

So, the past treasurer has been helping me out and I'm starting to get the hang of it, active sisters were starting to pay their dues on time etc...until I reached a bump in the road.

We have a few alumni who have pretty high outstanding balances. And one of them inparticular has a very big problem with that.

She says that she went early alum, and she doesn't owe any dues. On the contrary she owes over $600.00 and wasn't even in good finacial standing to go early alum in the first place.

To make a long story short, after message after message of her complaining to me she finally started to ignore me...and I'm fully prepared to take her to collections.

Problem is, I have no clue where to begin with this kind of situation. I was wondering if any other chapter officers had the same experiances and could share some words of wisdom? Like ways to act around this person, who to call, who to talk to, what I would need to take to collections.

Thanks!