<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Makes sense to me. $132,000 of the office expenses are attributed to NFB-Newsline payments. Which leaves $18,000 in actual office expenses. And of that amount, only $1497 is spent on management, the rest is program related (things like convention, BELL, etc.). </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Best,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Arthur Jacobs<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Nov 23, 2015, at 3:54 PM, NFB NY Office via New-york-news <<a href="mailto:new-york-news@nfbnet.org">new-york-news@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<div>FYI for any questions that might have existed about the 990.</div>
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<div>Carl</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="BBurke@nfb.org" href="mailto:BBurke@nfb.org">Burke, Bridgid</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 20, 2015 4:57 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="office@nfbny.org" href="mailto:office@nfbny.org">State
President, New York</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Office Expenses on the 990</div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">About four years ago the IRS
made several changes to the 990 form. One of the changes included combing
several kinds of expenses under Office Expense. Office Expense on the 990
now includes supplies, telephone, postage, equipment rental and repair, and
printing and publications; below is a list of the NFB of New York Office
Expenses broken out by the categories:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Total Office Expense list on
2014 990 form: $150,036 ($148,538 of this amount is attributed to program,
$1,497 is attributed to management and general)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Supplies
$6,129.97 ($5,040.36 program, $1,089.61 management and
general)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Telephone $6,146.65
($5,840.90 program, $305.75 management and general)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Postage $780.57
($754.32 program, $26,25 management and general)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Equipment rental and repair
$755.00 ($679.50 program, $75.50 management and
general)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: symbol"><span style="mso-list: ignore">·<span style="FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Printing and publications
$136,223.38 ($136,223.38 program)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">The printing and publications
category includes payments to the national office for NFB-Newsline. In
2014, printing and publications expenses included approximately $4,000 for state
convention printing and NFB Live and $132,000 for NFB-Newsline service for the
state of New York. NFB-Newsline service is funded by the State of New York
through a contract with the NFB of New York. By contract, NFB of New York
sends payments to the National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore for
NFB-Newsline service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Please contact me if you have
any questions or concerns about this information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Bridgid M. Burke,
MPA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Director of Program
Support<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">National Federation of the
Blind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">1800 Johnson
Street<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Baltimore, Maryland
21230<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">(410) 659-9314 extension
2271<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><a href="mailto:bburke@nfb.org">bburke@nfb.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p> </p></div></div></div></div>
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