TRC Treasurer Instructions

This is starting as Dean's notes to himself, but will eventually be turned over to future Treasurers.

Before A Rallye

Determine if you will be Rallye Registrar or someone else will. Provide the registrar with everything they'll need at the rallye (this section and next).

Make a sign with the names of those who have not picked up previous rallye awards. (Also have a list of which names earned which awards. This is typically the rallye results.)

After the PayPal registration cut-off (negotiate with the webmaster), get the list of those who paid by PayPal, with amounts/purpose (and E-mail to double-check).

Fill in Event, Location, and Dates on several (6?) adult insurance waiver forms. Registrar must sign the bottom and put their initials and date each signature line. Put several of these forms on a clipboard, to allow signing in parallel using the clipboard and the pad.

Also prep 2 or 3 minor waivers; note that parents and witness need to sign both sides.

Bring to a Rallye

• Start box, containing
  • cash box (with change and various "free rallye" coupons),
    • We normally have $75 change: $65 in $5 bills and $10 in $1 coins.
    • For the membership rallye, we should also have $50 in $10 bills, to help make change from $40 for $25 memberships (or $30 associate memberships).
  • insurance waivers--adult and minor varieties,
  • run sheets,
  • TRC business cards,
  • signs,
  • pens,
  • clipboards, etc.
• Flyer box, containing flyers for upcoming events and unclaimed awards
• Table (and probably a chair)
• A light (for winter months in which it could be dark before registration closes)
• Umbrella? Setting up under the overhang is more convenient.
• TRC Checkbook, or at least the checks for awards and next month's insurance

• Your personal rallye equipment, drink or snack, etc.

Note: Coupons to give the RM a free rallye in the future (unless revenue sharing) now live in the finish box instead.

At A Rallye

Rallye Preparation

• Post signs near registration table:
  • Entry fee (normally $15 for TRC Members, $20 for nonmembers)
  • Rallye Classes (i.e., how to tell what class your car is)
  • Ask questions of the Rallyemaster, not the registrar
  • Unclaimed Awards (list of names)
  • List of things for sale, with prices

• Ask someone to determine if Larry's bathroom is available, and erect the bathroom sign, appropriate side out.

• Set up (on table or within reach, where you won't have to leave the cash box unattended):
  • Insurance Waiver forms
  • Cash box
  • Check-in Sheet (on which to record sales)
  • Run sheets (one to three pages free to each car)
  • Membership forms. Loaning a clipboard to someone filling one out is friendly.
  • Unclaimed Awards (currently in green plastic "folder")
  • Items for sale (recently: clipboards, office supplies, backpacks; Guides)

Insurance Waivers

• Ask each rallyist to print and sign the insurance waiver, stressing that everyone in the car must sign. (Sometimes "guests" attempt to stay in the car while a rallyist registers. There should be at least two active waivers, so rallyists can sign simultaneously.)

• Ask anyone that looks young if they are a minor.
  • For each minor, the annoying minor release form needs to be filled out. Be sure they realize it has two sides.
  • It needs to be signed by the parent on one side, the minor on the other, and the registrar (on both sides as "witness").

Membership

• Ask if the car contains a member (sometimes we check the names against the current member list, typically we take their word for it except right after the "membership rallye"), and record that in the first column on the "Rallye Check-in Sheet".
• If they are non-members, explain that they could join for just $5 more, if they are willing to fill out the membership application.

When Accepting a Membership (joining or renewal)

• Review any membership application:
  • If an "associate member" name is present, the cost is $30 total.
    • The associate member may also run a rallye at the reduced entrance fee (without the member).
    • And the associate member can also vote.
  • (Renewals may say "on file" if the address and phone numbers TRC has are still correct.
  • The application must be signed.
• In the unlikely event that anyone joins or renews but is not entering this month's rallye (e.g., a car with two members has one renewing and entering, the other only renewing), issue them a signed and dated "Free Rallye" card.
• Issue a signed and dated "Free First Rallye" card to anyone joining or renewing. Explain that they cannot use it, it is to be given to a first-timer car.
• Offer a "TRC business card" or two to anyone joining or renewing.
• Offer a copy of TRC's Bylaws and Operating Procedures to any member.

Rallye Registration

• Ask for $. (PayPal registrants will remind you if you don't remember their name.)
• Ask for their class, and enter that in the second column; some will need help (or need to consult the sign) to determine their class.
• Issue the next registration packet and one participation plaque.

  (At the finish, if we have extra magnet par plaques, they are free.

  If we have no extras on magnets, the artwork is free and the magnet can be purchased for $1.)

• Double check that the next registration packet you have has the number of the next number on the check-in sheet.

"Up-selling"

• Offer extra copies of the registration packet for the back seat. These are currently 1 or 2 extra copies for $1.
• We are currently offering to sell "TRC garage sale items" (double clipboards, backpacks, office supplies). There is a sign with prices for members (even new members) and nonmembers.

Miscellaneous

• Offer a couple run sheets (free) to any rallyist.
• Do not (ever) leave cash box unattended. Not even for a minute.
• Collect filled-out forms (e.g., in start box).
• The RM will likely want to know which cars are in each class, to help make the grid to display results. You cannot simply give the RM the check-in sheet, because you'll need it after the rallye to reconcile the cash box.

After A Rallye

Use the "Rallye Reconciliation Form" to assure the $ from the rallye match what is expected (counts, $, PayPal, Checks). Endorse checks with the TRC stamp, prepare a bank deposit.

Send E-mail asking RM (and workers) to submit amounts to be reimbursed (with receipts). Ask RM to bring score sheets to the meeting (to be filed).

Make bank deposit (in person or via night depository). Enter Cash Revenue, PayPal rallye payments, and Bank Deposit into Quicken (Start Box account).

Enter Membership Applications from rallye into Membership DB. (It is common for someone to have run a rallye with others and have a "joint record" but to be joining without paying an associate fee. In this case, the record needs to be "split" before updating.)

Assure that Minor Waivers include the description/location and date at the top of both sides, and that the registrar signed and printed as Witness at the bottom of both sides.

File Minor Waivers and Adult Waiver pages in TRC's filing box.

Before the Next Board Meeting

Rallye Report

Update Rallye Report Rallyes\Reports\YYYY_rallyes with counts and $ from "Rallye Reconciliation Form". Double check that the off-page references go to the correct cell on the correct sheet.

Pay Upcoming Expenses

Pay requested Rallye Reimbursements via check or PayPal and enter into Quicken.

Write the next month's Insurance Check. (The amount may increase for August.)

Reconcile

Get the [PayPal] Balance and recent activity. Reconcile with Quicken.

Get the [Bank of America] balance and recent activity. Reconcile with Quicken.

Treasurer Reports

Monthly Report

Update Rallyes\Reports\YYYY-MM_report

• dates
• Starting balance is last month's ending balance
• Account Balances
• This month's income and expenses
• (Verify that Ending Balance equals Total in all Accounts)

Comparison to Budget

This is more difficult than it should be. The problem is that Quicken insists that the budget is for calendar months (e.g., 1/1 through 1/31). But we really run the budget from one business meeting to (just before) the next (e.g., 1/18 to 2/16). These are essentially the same if we get no PayPal payments in the last half of the month (or we enter them as of the first of the next month), and if we write no checks and make no PayPal payments during this time. You can ask Quicken to report from arbitrary dates, but then it takes each month's budget, and prorates them by days, rather than applying the "February" budget from 1/18 to 2/16.

Open the YYYY-MM_budget_report spreadsheet. Copy last month's Report to the PreviousMonth sheet. Update ReportDate to the closing date (typically the Saturday before the business meeting). Save the spreadsheet for the new month's file name.

In Quicken, View the "Budget Month" and "Budget YTD" reports (Reports->My Saved Reports). Update the Budget YTD report's "custom dates" to terminate at the end of the current month. In each report, "Export Data"->"Copy report to clipboard" in Quicken, and then paste it into then empty portion of the new YYYY-MM_budget_report spreadsheet. Then "special copy" (Control/Shift/V) the numbers (only) into nicely formatted spreadsheet, being careful to match expense categories, since Quicken omits any category with neither actuals nor budget. Verify that the sums calculated by the spreadsheet (invisible, under the Overall Totals) match the Total Expenses two lines up.

ASCII Versions

Copy each report from Star/Open Office. Then paste and reformat (in notepad or vim) as plain text. Beware that "hidden" lines are pasted; delete them as part of formatting.

When Rallye Results are Available

Print the results and highlight the names and places of unclaimed awards (in the flyer box). Stapling the unclaimed awards bag to the back of the results keeps them together.

Well Before the Next Rallye

Remind the next RM to print extra reg packets (without score sheets).

Assure the start box contains

• Membership Application forms
• Insurance waivers ("Rally Release and waiver of liability, assumption of risk and indemnity agreement")
• Minor release forms ("Parental Consent, release and waiver of liability, assumption of risk and indemnity agreement")
• TRC's clipboards (standard clipboards to use, not double clipboards to sell)

Assure the cash box contains

• 13 $5 bills and 10 $1 bills or coins ($75 total) for member change. This is probably overkill, but 10 $5 bills was once not enough. For the "membership rallye," also have 5 $10 bills.
• "free rallye" cards‡ (for members who join or renew, but are already in a paid-for car)
• "free first rallye" cards‡ (to give to each paid and registered member, including associates, to be given to a first-timer friend)
• "TRC Business Cards"‡ which contain a map to Larry's and our URL. Give a couple to anyone that wants them, as a form of advertising. (They don't entitle the holder to anything.)

Assure the plastic form stand contains

• Fliers for future rallyes† (typically print the next two rallyes front and back, full page)
• "Gimmick Rallye Guide" Books† for beginners

† Steve should be able to print more of these, but someone will have to pick them up.
‡ Cris normally prints these and brings them to the business meeting or the next rallye.

Pass To Next Treasurer

• Quicken Database
• Rallye Check-in and Reconciliation Forms
• Source for Unclaimed Awards and Entrance Fees signs
• Checkbook
• Bank of America and PayPal online access information
• Start box
• Cash box
• Flier stand and its protective box
• Unclaimed awards