[TriLUG] Financial Status (The pizza email)

[John Broome via TriLUG]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 2:55 PM Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

>       For the past many months, TriLUG has been running at a deficit.
> Although we have had meeting sponsors before, they have been few and
> far between. So we had to rely on the donations we have received in
> the "The Bucket" we place every meeting by the pizzas and the credit
> card donations to cover our meeting expenses (Pizzas and Drinks).
> Since the beginning of the year, the amount that we have collected in
> "The Bucket"+card has only covered a small portion of those expenses,
> the rest being taken from the TriLUG financial reserves. As those
> reserves stand, unless something happens we will have to deploy some
> Pizza Austerity Measures.
>
>

Is the issue that there's not enough attendees to meetings to cover pizza
(if they chipped in), or that attendance is good, but people don't
contribute?