In this unprecedented year of canceling our national convention and conducting special elections online, we will also need to go into the coming 2021 fiscal year with a budget which would have normally been passed by the national council at convention. As a result, the national board will need to vote on whether to accept a provisional budget for 2021 at the August 15, 2020 board meeting, based on input and feedback from National Council delegates and broader membership. A formal vote by National Council to retroactively accept the 2021 Budget and adopt the proposed 2022 budget will be planned for the 2021 National Council meetings at next year's convention. In advance of the National Board vote in August 2020, we are requesting feedback and input from the National Council and membership on the proposed budget.
In the interest of transparency and engagement, we will be hosting a JACL Finance webinar session for any interested JACL members on Saturday, July 18, 2020. The proposed agenda of the webinar is below:
JACL Finance 101: provide an educational overview of JACL's finances (e.g. how to make sense of the budget and the financial results)
Present the summary FY2019 Financial Results
Walkthrough the proposed 2021 Budget
Following are the details for the webinar and a link to register:
Date: July 18, 2020
Time: 1:00pm EDT/10:00am PDT (estimated 1.5 hour total duration)
Registration link: https://jacl.salsalabs.org/july18budgetmeetingsignup
Link to 2019 Financial Results: https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/JACL-Financial-Report-Dec-2019.pdf
Link to 2021 Proposed Budget: https://jacl.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Budget-2021-2022.pdf
We will be forwarding the webinar information to registered participants no later than 24 hours prior to the webinar's start time. The webinar will be available as a recording after the presentation concludes for those who are unable to attend.
Please do not hesitate to contact David Inoue (dinoue@jacl.org) Executive Director, or James Kirihara (jkirihara@jacl.org), Secretary and Treasurer with any questions you have about this meeting or if you have questions about the budget or finances in advance of the meeting.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you on July 18.