Other category donations incorrectly used
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 9:23 pm
I am looking for some guidance on two issues.
1) Our relief society held a Super Saturday which had costs for the different crafts. The sisters were told to donate the cost of each craft they wanted to do. I was instructed to create a category under "other activities" for the donations that would be made to pay for the crafts. I did so but as I reviewed policies found that this was incorrectly done all the way around. For one no one should have paid for anything to participate and it should have just been funded by the RS budget. But now for the dilemma. As reimbursement requests came in before donations in some of them were paid directly from the RS budget. Now I have a pile of money sitting in "other activities" and do not know what to do. I don't think I can transfer it to the relief society budget. What would be the proper thing to do?
2) Somewhat similar the Stake Self Reliance Instructor told attendees to pay for the books by donating the money to other category and list self reliance. Upon receipt of the donations a category under other activities was created and money place here. Now the Instructor realized this should have never been requested and said that we should refund the money. By policy I can't do this unless I am missing something. How would I correct this?
Thank you for any direction in advance.
1) Our relief society held a Super Saturday which had costs for the different crafts. The sisters were told to donate the cost of each craft they wanted to do. I was instructed to create a category under "other activities" for the donations that would be made to pay for the crafts. I did so but as I reviewed policies found that this was incorrectly done all the way around. For one no one should have paid for anything to participate and it should have just been funded by the RS budget. But now for the dilemma. As reimbursement requests came in before donations in some of them were paid directly from the RS budget. Now I have a pile of money sitting in "other activities" and do not know what to do. I don't think I can transfer it to the relief society budget. What would be the proper thing to do?
2) Somewhat similar the Stake Self Reliance Instructor told attendees to pay for the books by donating the money to other category and list self reliance. Upon receipt of the donations a category under other activities was created and money place here. Now the Instructor realized this should have never been requested and said that we should refund the money. By policy I can't do this unless I am missing something. How would I correct this?
Thank you for any direction in advance.