[Hcoop-discuss] Tax-exemption application and hosting set-up fees

[docelic]

On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:45:28AM -0700, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> The co-op has currently been charged two kinds of fees that I haven't 
> yet distributed among the members:
>  - $162.78 in IRS tax exemption application fees to date, paid directly 
> by Nate.
>  - Two months of InterServer fees before the switch-over, at $150.05 each.
> 
> Since the InterServer server wasn't benefiting even current members 
> during those two months, it seems that neither of these two fee 
> categories is particularly tied to who was a member at the time when we 
> incurred them.  As a result, I think that, in the interest of 
> "fairness," it would be a good idea to divide the combined $462.89 
> charge over the next few months.  Each month, that month's share would 
> be divided evenly among the members at that time.  This also has the 
> advantage of avoiding sudden, large charges, which people tend not to 
> like. :-)

Well, since we have to do this one way or another, splitting the costs
over say, 4 months would be more than acceptable (about $115 per month).

Regards,
-doc