Draft Budget

Draft Budget Feb - July 2006 / Six Months
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The treasurer estimates revenues as follows (Please note- Figures in $L):

Land fee : $L420,000
Land Sales: $L60,000
Misc. $L60,000
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Total estimated revenue $L540,000



Estimated expenses:

Tier $L312,000
Fees/Conversion Charges/etc. $L30,000
Remainder of Rathaus fee to Kendra $L15,000
Bond payoff - Ulrika Zugzwang $L17,000
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Total estimated expense $L374,000


Giving a general revenue fund of $L166,000


Unsold land in the sim has a total price of $L84,942. To realize the projected land sales revenue, we need to sell 70% of the available land. I think this is overly optimistic. Many of the available valley plots are tucked in the NW Viertel. 2005 Kendrastr., the largest available city plot, is oddly shaped and very steep. I have therefore based my proposals on a very conservative revenue fund of $L142,000.

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Proposed discretionary expenditures


Web hosting - $20US/$L5600 per month Total $120USD/$L35,000
Initial Payment for subcontracted web redesign $100USD/$L30,000

This leaves us $275US/$L77,000
or $45US/$L12,800 per month.




Claude proposals--------------------------

I would propose two uses.

Rainy Day Fund/Saving for second sim acquisition
This depends on the fate of Bill 4-9 and, if 4-9 passes, whether or not we take the reserve fund out of cash on hand.

Payments to treasurer/webmaster/ etc. for recurring city services.



Sudane proposals--------------------------

1) Default allocation is to the reserve fund.

2) Web re-design is already allocated. But a subset of web-redesign is the system of personal accounts which automate the process of determining and paying your land tax. I believe this is essential. L$10,000 additional.

3) Allocate L$10,000 for stage one Neualtenburg promotion. Proposals accepted. A subset of this proposal might be NBurg events for the time period in question... should it be determined that events are good promotion.

4) Allocate L$10,000 for mapping/land tracking software to feed to site a continuously updated land image. I have a programmer ready to do this, but she is not an NBurger. We should publish it first to all NBurgers. After 10 days, offer it to SL at large. (Guild procedures is another item on my list. Under development).

5) Identify City based administrative roles.

RA Archivist
Treasurer
Webmaster
SC Archivist

$L1000/month each

Why $20/month for hosting the website? You could get an account for $7/month at Bluehost.com (and a bazillion other sites on the net, I just happen to use Bluehost).

It's a conservative estimate intended to be the most we would have to pay.

Cool, but you can get an good web hosting account for $8/month, why not just budget it at that level to start?