TREASURER'S REPORT

As anticipated Solicitor General Sustaining Funding continued to decline this year per federal government budget cuts. The 2 person CAEFS office has endeavoured to keep expenses within budget as funds decrease and workload steadily increases by improving office efficiency and productivity. To facilitate this CAEFS has purchased and is now using a computerized accounting program making it easier to retrieve detailed data, track expenditures, and monitor and control the budget; this in turns gives a clearer picture of CAEFS financial situation. The computerized system is also less time intensive meaning that CAEFS no longer has as a separate contract for bookkeeping; and the cost of our annual audit decreased this year because the financial records were in such good shape.

CAEFS also receives a reimbursement donation for time devoted by Kim Pate to the work of the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) and National Associations Active in Criminal Justice(NAACJ). These honoraria have been used to offset the cost of staff travel, a laptop computer for staff use outside the office and at Board meetings and to upgrade the office fax machine to a more cost-effective model machine to a more cost effective model. The office also has the use of a NCPC computer, with E-Mail, a modem and Internet for as long as Kim is on the Council.

As a result of these efforts and the generosity of our corporate sponsors the CAEFS office was able to stay within its budget this year.

During the CAEFS AGM delegates will vote on a new funding model and regional structure which will enable our network to work more effectively with and on behalf of the women we serve.

CAEFS, as well as other national voluntary organizations, continues to face financial challenges as a result of government cuts. These challenges can only successfully be combatted with increased efforts to find additional sources of funding and by using existing resources even more efficiently.

Mollie Gardiner, Treasurer

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