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Congratulations to all for finishing another tax season!
It’s been a whirlwind several months.
Thank you for electing me as your president for this fiscal year. It is my honor to serve you and keep the momentum previous presidents have taken.
Our Immediate Past President Rico Delodovici is a hard act to follow. With his leadership I hope to keep the momentum going.
With that in mind, at the Board’s first meeting, I had the honor and privilege to install two new directors – Lynn Telford, EA and Dennis Noss, EA. I look forward to working with them.
And I look forward to working with the whole Board.
It’s been my practice to hire someone smarter than I. And I am very happy this Board is smarter than I am!
There is a matter of utmost importance. Please donate at least $25 to CSEA’s Legislation Action Fund (LAF). Even though CSEA’s membership is down, the amount of work is up! LAF pays the lobbyist to produce CSEA’s Stern / Mulak Leg Day in January. The Stern / Mulak Leg Day allows CSEA members to visit the state politicians and provide information about enrolled agents. The Stern / Mulak Leg Day is continuing the legacy that Jim Stern, EA and Vicki Mulak created. Jim Stern helped put CSEA on the map. Vicki Mulak was a speaker for CSEA. She spoke at Mission’s Cast in Concrete on changes in California taxation.
We must continue the Stern / Mulak Leg Day. In past years, Leg Day was financed by LAF. If LAF needed more funding, the funding came from CSEA.
And CSEA does not have available funds to help.
But you and I do. CSEA figures if every member gave $25, that we will have our Leg Day in 2025.
We must continue the Stern / Mulak Leg Day tradition. I have donated $100 already.
Will you join me in donating at least $25 to LAF? I would deeply appreciate if you did. And so would Jim Stern and Vicki Mulak.
And to make it easy for you, here’s the link to donate: https://www.csea.org/CSEA/Contribute/Give_Now_Legislative_Fund.aspx
And one more subject. Mission Society isn’t me. It’s not the Board. It’s all of us. And all of us have ideas.
So if you have ideas, suggestions, concerns – whatever --- please email Virginia at office@missioneas.org and Virginia will forward the email to the right person.
I look forward to working with you and the Board this coming year.
Oh, yes, December 17th is the holiday party at Three Flames! It’ll be a fun time.
My next message will be shorter – I hope!
Best wishes,
David
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