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?

Optimistic

Glad to hear from the Optimists. Wonder how Gym got that information? Optimists sponsored my football from pee wee all the way up. Had a blast. Well run. Never heard ONE complaint of anything not on the up and up. STILL never have. The memo clearly states that the concession monies are funneled into Optimist accounts. Can this be another one of those secret handshake deals that nobody else knows about? sounds strange to me. The verbatim quote is,"Concession stand is run by volunteer parents and the money is deposited with the Optimist Club thru their association with the team. As it is done thru the Optimist Club, no resale tax is charged." Weird.

Optimist concessions

memo continued.. 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 thru the Optimist Club no resale tax is charged. for the GMAC meet (all the HS in dade) the MSSH parents ran the concessions and all the money raised went to the payment of their pool rental. At large meets there may also be vendors that sell swimming apparel and products. The host team usually gets 10% of those sales. THE volunteer parents that run the concessions, are they host team parents, or Optimist parents? how long has the Optimist Club been associated with the swim team? Is there some kind of contract with them to assist the swim team? Do they just help the MSSH swim team? Do they provide this oppurtunity to everyone? Good to see the Optimist Club involved, but this is the first time this connection with the swim team has been revealed. Is this another handshake agreement?