One last note today, promise :)

I have gone ahead and made our internal finances within our group public 
so that you may all see the money coming in, going out with out meetup.

When you login to your account, you can click "Money" and view our 
finances.  We received a $10 donation so far from a member, and besides 
meetup.com costs, have incurred no expenses thus far.

FYI, Restore LA also files 6 month report with the state of CA, however 
for our internal purposes, I wanted to be clear that money donated, 
spent within our "meetup" was transparent to all members.

Any monies raised/spent specifically within our meetup will be reported 
online.  Any transfers of money in, from any "outside" fundraising, will 
be reported as well as any monies transferred out of our meetup to be 
used for Restore LA "general fund".  We will all vote if any monies is 
to be transferred our of our meetup group to the Restore LA general 
fund, for a specific reason such as a campaign or marketing expense, etc.

Transparency is also key in what we are doing with Restore LA, and we 
will lead by example.

-- 
Anthony Cinelli
President and Founder
Restore the Los Angeles County Republic
http://www.Restor...
Phone: [masked] (LA)
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Twitter:  RestoreLA / Anthony_Cinelli