On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 12:18:32 -0700, Steve Coe wrote: > 6. Get all the "stuff" that the club has acquired over the last two > years and see what we can sell off. There is no reason for this club > to own large amounts of real property. Virtually all the club > members have their own telescopes, eyepieces and star charts and very > few people make use of the club library that I know of. Let's make a > future meeting date a Swap Meet, and rather than have Show and Tell > portion, we will have a short business meeting and then a long break > before the speaker. The long break will allow members, and others, > to look over what we have to sell. Also allow members to show up and > sell any of their used equipment or books. Please look up the definition of "real property". The club owns no real property. As far as I know, the club has gathered nothing in the past two years. I guess you're talking about the Grants and Scholarship donations. That stuff does not belong to SAC, but to that fund. Selling those items will not help SAC. Jack and I discussed the idea of a swap meet to sell items. He felt it was a bad idea because items would end up going to whoever showed up first and we would find it difficult to track what was paid for and what wasn't, and people bringing in the items would not have a change to purchase things (unless they only carried in what they wanted to buy). It would be much better to auction off the items. SAC owns 2 C-8 telescopes and a Pierre built 6" Dob. If we could find them, maybe we could sell them. -Paul