June/July Board Status Report.

Donations for June and July were $24,611.34 versus a budget of $33,357.  This represents a $8,750 
shortfall from budget and approximately $16,000 less than our expenses for the period. This 
is a major red flag as the shortfall must be covered from our reserves.  The shortfall in 
donations is a continuing theme.  I wil discuss this further at next weeks Board meeting.

Expenses for the period have not yet come back from the accountant but are expected to be in-line 
with forecasts.

Receivables of $58K were collected during June.  A more detailed financial analysis showing our 
cash position and forecasts going forward should be available at the board meeting.  

Membership has shown no growth during the summer months and still rests at 9000.  

All three modem pools are working well with the exception of a DNS lookup failure experienced on 
rare occasions by dialup users.  NCF members fully utilise the overflow pool on a regular basis.  
In expectations of additional load beginning in September, I am exploring the opportunity to 
enlarge the overflow pool from 48 to 96 lines.  

The mail system is also operating at close to capacity.  A recent outage of the spam filter 
highlighted this concern.  We are working on a plan to increase the through-put of the mail 
system to safeguard against delays in the future.  

Volunteers are working out well however a number of the new volunteers will be returning to 
school in September and so we need to continue efforts to refresh the volunteer staff.


Looking forward to seeing you all at the Board meeting

john