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out there. Opening day for the Red Sox has been postponed on day. Although, I think it is supposed to rain tomorrow, too, hopefully it won't be the hard falling rain we're having today. Somewhere between teeming and monsooning.
The weekend was lovely. I sat outside (chilly breeze, but the sunshine was so nice) for a while. My mother's shop has decided to move. They are moving next door to the space they have now - as soon as the lease is amended and signed. If they get the right person to manage the project, they are hoping that they'll be able to close the old shop one Monday and open in the new space by Wednesday - sometime in June. But that means a tremendous amount of work, and it necessitates all of the 20 members pulling together and working toward the same goal. Right now the folks in charge of the big move are not detail people. My mother is staying way far out of it.
The folks "in charge" have also done crap all about budgeting for the move realistically. I think it can be done for a few thousand - six or seven at the MOST. They've budgeted for three times that amount. Um. If your members and family members are the ones doing all the work not required by contractors, what are doing budgeting that much money to MOVE NEXT DOOR? It is not like there are trucks involved. Or even moving people. Contracted painters, sure. Shampoo the carpets, sure. A guy to come in and reopen a blocked out window, yeah. But if you're doing absolutely everything else? Wherefore goes the $18,000? For *what*? The carpet doesn't suck - don't replace it right away! Maybe professional cleaners? But that does not eat up as much money as you think. And if you don't budget conservatively, you don't tend to look for cost-saving measures, and you squander resources you don't have needlessly. I know of six IKEA display cases the display committee wants to purchase. For $60 each. But they are also quite happy to use donated furniture as well, and not purchase everything at the same time.
I am so used to doing things on a shoestring, that this kind of blind budgeting drives me bonkers. It doesn't help that the person who came up with the "budget" hasn't broken the numbers down to say *how* she arrived at that number.
I know the gallery is a cooperative, and the artists are the owners, and as such everyone has an equal voice. But we are also talking about ARTISTS here. And while I like a lot of them very much, some of them are kind of dingbats. And some of them are pains in the ass.
Ah well. While I will likely help in the transition, I am not a decision-maker, nor do I want to be.
The weekend was lovely. I sat outside (chilly breeze, but the sunshine was so nice) for a while. My mother's shop has decided to move. They are moving next door to the space they have now - as soon as the lease is amended and signed. If they get the right person to manage the project, they are hoping that they'll be able to close the old shop one Monday and open in the new space by Wednesday - sometime in June. But that means a tremendous amount of work, and it necessitates all of the 20 members pulling together and working toward the same goal. Right now the folks in charge of the big move are not detail people. My mother is staying way far out of it.
The folks "in charge" have also done crap all about budgeting for the move realistically. I think it can be done for a few thousand - six or seven at the MOST. They've budgeted for three times that amount. Um. If your members and family members are the ones doing all the work not required by contractors, what are doing budgeting that much money to MOVE NEXT DOOR? It is not like there are trucks involved. Or even moving people. Contracted painters, sure. Shampoo the carpets, sure. A guy to come in and reopen a blocked out window, yeah. But if you're doing absolutely everything else? Wherefore goes the $18,000? For *what*? The carpet doesn't suck - don't replace it right away! Maybe professional cleaners? But that does not eat up as much money as you think. And if you don't budget conservatively, you don't tend to look for cost-saving measures, and you squander resources you don't have needlessly. I know of six IKEA display cases the display committee wants to purchase. For $60 each. But they are also quite happy to use donated furniture as well, and not purchase everything at the same time.
I am so used to doing things on a shoestring, that this kind of blind budgeting drives me bonkers. It doesn't help that the person who came up with the "budget" hasn't broken the numbers down to say *how* she arrived at that number.
I know the gallery is a cooperative, and the artists are the owners, and as such everyone has an equal voice. But we are also talking about ARTISTS here. And while I like a lot of them very much, some of them are kind of dingbats. And some of them are pains in the ass.
Ah well. While I will likely help in the transition, I am not a decision-maker, nor do I want to be.