WAM Year in Review

not perfectly chronological & not comprehensive

Summer

We started off the year with a new general manager, Brian Donovan
Property tax return!!!! over $350,000 we got back from last year and exemption for all future years.
Hired maggie as Fundraising outreach coordinator, and alumni team has raised a lot of money throughout the whole year
Separated Div and ed, new vp ed sophia
Decided to undertake full review of standing rules
Luther house city inspection – lots of hard work from maintenance
New member debt proceedings, which has led to us collecting a lot of our bad debt over the whole fiscal year going way back, this will save us 10s of thousands of dollars in the future

Fall

Hired pink
Opened ed center
Returned to in person board training and meetings
New eviction proceedings
Co-op month event
New vp finance duy-anh
Hired kyle as accounts payables coordinator to assist finance
EV charging stations at truth and king house, grant from DTE and hard work from John simpkins, also a lot of much needed parking lot repair at truth, hard work from maintenance

Winter

Moving forward

Need to finish the budget
Lots of planning work, reflection on all the progress we’ve made and how much more we have to go
Strategic planning, multi-year budget planning, new ideas for education and training