Connoisseur's Club Budget Spring 2009

Meeting Information

 * Meeting Frequency: weekly
 * Number of Meeting: 15
 * Projected Attendance:32

Meeting Expenses

 * Total Food: $ 384
 * Advertising: $ 5
 * Magic Board: $ 0
 * TOTAL: $ 389

Equipment Information

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Equipment Expenses

 * TOTAL: $

Equipment Information

 * Name: Serving Equipment
 * Description: We currently have enough cheese-serving equipment to serve our regular meeting attendance (average 32). However, in the coming semester, we wish to increase our meeting size to include all interested parties of the community. In order to meet this challenge, we will require more serving utensils and similar equipment. In order to do so sustainably, we shall purchase only permanent serving equipment, and do so from local artisans and handcrafters $80-90 on cutting boards from a private artisan in Hadley (an attendee of the Hampshire College Local Crafts Fair from November) $30-40 on cutting boards from a private artisan in Easthampton $80 on utensils and utility equipment from the reliable and wonderful people of Spooners Treenware, of Allegheny, West Virginia
 * Purpose: Cutting boards (4) for cutting and serving cheeses; sharp fish-boning knives (2) for cutting wheel cheeses; cheese slicers (for curling hard cheeses);
 * Storage Location:Like all current cheese club equipment, these things will be kept under lock and key to prevent theft. At the end of the semester they will be stored either in the CLA basement or with a trusted professor, depending on storage space available.

Equipment Expenses

 * TOTAL: $210

Events

 * Name of Event: Melting, Maturing, and Denaturing: A Cheesy Celebration
 * Date of the event (best approximate possible): Feb 15
 * Projected Attendance: 61
 * Description of Event: A long-planned event, open to the entire community, which will showcase the particular ways in which cheese (even very simple cheeses) can be manipulated and made different and delicious. This activity will simply be in continuation of the traditions set forth by cheese club, just taken to the next level. Our projected attendance is equal to the number of active members of the Hampshire community who are on the cheese club mailing list. Since we will be opening this event to the general public, and advertising, this number is probably on the lowest end of the spectrum.
 * Description of Performer (if applicable):
 * Advertising $: 10.00
 * Food $: 100.00
 * Magic Board Cost $:
 * Sound and Lights Rentals $: 0
 * Security $: 0
 * Performer Honorarium $: 0
 * Other Costs $: 450.00


 * TOTAL APPROVED $: $560
 * Comments from The Committee on Community Activities (COCA):

Other Expenses
Please meet with FiCom to discuss your proposal in more detail.