Tuesday, January 13, 2009

clarification needed

For those who might have missed the memo then, here it is again- (item 5-C, dated December 5, 2008, addressed to Mayor Bain and Council)" Concession stand is run by volunteer parents and the money is deposited with the Optimist Club through their association with the team. As it is done through the Optimist Club, no resale tax is charged......". It goes on to talk about the GMAC meet and where that money went, etc. This is the claim made by the City Manager, word for word. It is assumed he is talking about MSSH volunteer parents working the GMAC meet. The meet in question is the GMAC meet, not a MSSH sponsored meet. It is also assumed that they were acting as the concession hosts because the meet was being held here in MS. That they applied the profits towards their pool rentals is also admirable. It is the Optimist claim that is in doubt. If they were doing the concessions as the nonprofit MSSH swim team parents organization no resale tax would be required, right? If they werent operating as the nonprofit group, resale taxes WOULD be required, as would an Optimist connection to get around that requirement. IF the payments actually were put thru the Optimist accounts there are deposit slips and bank statements to that effect, right? If the payments werent put thru the Optimists, that would be easy to see too, as there would be NO evidence to that effect, right? Fortunately, the President of the Optimists should have access to all this information and can quickly and easily clear this up for us, right?

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