Reimbursements for your hard work!

Shawn Burr

2246 East Rockledge Rd

Phoenix, AZ 85048

Kiley Green

3434 Circulo Adorno

Carlsbad CA 92009

haha. awesome.

Keep your dirty money i dont want it

don't pretend like you don't know fool

Nick Tanner

1201 e. drachman #145

Tucson, az 85719

3683 S. Desert Lantern Rd.

Tucson, AZ 85735

I am confused... Dirty money implies illegal or unethical activity like working at a bike shop for the summer or something like that.

Just to repeat what Angela said, you might want to give this info by PM rather than posting it for all the spiders, scrapers and bots to see. This will go on your permanent Google record.

Petter! I am so sorry... things have been wild. I'm calling you right now

Chris Seay
2203 E Calle Sierra Del Manantial
Tucson, AZ 85706

Sean, yours has been sent to the Phoenix address you posted above. I've sent out a bunch of these checks, spending most of the Foundation funds we've received. The Foundation or the Rec Center (it's unclear which) has somehow had amnesia about $2000 or so of our money, and I am trying to prod them to get their act together. This is somewhat frustrating. I hope that by the end of July I'll be able to send out the rest of the checks.

No worries, Shawn -- my reply was not very clear. What I meant was, I sent out a batch of 16 of these checks, mostly on May 29. That batch happened to include your reimbursement. The remaining checks are unfortunately being held up by the abovementioned problem.

yeah...my mail box red flag is still down

Yeah, my address has changed.

I used to be a zero, but now you can multiply that by 100.

From your language I assume that we gave the checks to the foundation, and they then lost the checks.

In law when someone passes property to another person to hold on their behalf, the holder then becomes responsible for that property (unless the contractual arrangement provides otherwise) and any damage/loss that occurs while it is in their possession.

To avoid unauthorized practice of law I will not apply this general rule to the facts in our situation (also since I am not aware of all the facts, any verbal/written contracts involved, or applicable University/Foundation policies).

Agreed.  This does not sound like it should be our problem, the foundation recognizes the checks were given to them.  It is disconcerting to me that their response is you go fix it, and not it was our mistake and we will make up for it.  I hope we put some pressure on them to rectify the situation.  (A letter with well placed legalese does wonders at scaring organizations into action)

I definitely see your position, Lee, Sarah, and Kyle (and probably a lot of you). Let me add a few things, because my previous post was pretty short---a few words in the Foundation's defense, and then a suggestion:

• First, the Foundation is, at the behest of the Rec Center, going to try to fix things up. They are going to send out letters to our donors, with (I was told) an apologetic tone, asking for a new check. Yes, I am sure those donors are someone irked that the checks haven't been cashed. Some probably will send a replacement check and some won't.
• We don't have much power here. The fact is, every check that was lost said, "Pay to the order of the U. of Az. Foundation"; so in a sense the Foundation could say, "We lost our own money, not yours; it is our affair." (I realize that only tells part of the story.)
• It surely would be nice if the foundation would just give us that $2k to us. That scenario is, I think, possible, and I would like to press for it, but it will take a lot of polite, persistent persuasion to get them to do that. They will have a lot of reasons why they can't: because their money is all tracked, they don't have a budget for it, donations are only given for certain purposes, etc. We don't have to concede those reasons, and I think it's going to fall to the officers to push for this. It *might* happen---that would be great---but it will take more pushing than I have in me right now.
• As we discuss this on the website, let's try to avoid being antagonistic, because all kinds of people read what we post here. Basically we need to persuade the foundation that it is in *their* interest to make these funds available to us. After all, the Foundation exists to help the university. They already *do* help us: they make our donations tax deductible. This request would be in line with their goals, too.
• We might have to compromise on how much we get.

As a former officer, I feel entitled to say, go ahead and complain about this as loudly and antagonistically as you like to any of the officers, in private. They will be glad to hear your opinion. :-)