"seekers hall"
the roof over our gathering

† revised 26 April 2003
‡ revised 17 May 2003

We have a desire to have a place we can settle into, that we can set up our educational and archiving activities in - a place of our own. Some of the features we would look for in a place are:

    Requirements:

    Benefits of having our own space:
    must have a kitchenette area for snacks and drinks Place to have our Sunday discussion meeting, without being chased out at the end
    must have enough room for a library Place to start having other meetings other nights of the week (committees, etc.)
    must have room for education sessions Place to start our library,
    must be suitable for internet access and workstations Place to start our school
    should have parking available Place to run seekers web hosting biz out of
    should be economical Place to run other seeker biz's out of, such as food co-op
    should be in safe neighborhood Place to work on seeker web site, etc.
      Would make us look more "real" to prospective members
       
       

Notes regarding halls being considered:

111 Lock Street, Nashua
(old Accurate Printing building)

‡ [This space no longer available - a Massachusetts drug company has bought an option on the space for 3-4 months pending New-Hampshire regulatory approval. The space could become available again if they cannot get approvals.] Let's continue to use this cost model for our visioning, though. More space may be available in this building now, since the martial arts studio has closed.

New Fellowship Baptist Church
50 Ash Street, Nashua

This space will be evalutated in detail during the week of 8 December 2003


Ideas of how to pay for the space used as a seekers hall:

The key to making this painless is to spread the costs over many sources of revenue:
1. get pledges from our members - remember, a pledge of $20/week from 5 members is $100/week = $433/month, or 10 members @ $10/wk.
2. membership fees from new members (did we decide on a fee to join?),
3. donations from interested parties (our angels),
4. make our space available to other groups for a fee, such as AA meetings, typically $20/week = $87/month,
5. LP, NAW, Freedom Film Festival or other groups could use for small fee, say $10-$20/ meeting,
6. let a couple of our members keep a desk there for an office for a fee, say $50/month (benefit of membership - not available to non-member),
7. begin our educational efforts with a computer school - charge fees, and keep a portion for overhead (balance to the instructor),
8. offer to do improvements, if any required, in exchange for rent,
9. set up a web & email-hosting business operated out of our space,
10. set up other businesses out of space, such as food co-op,
11. rent out library books and video/audio tapes,
12. it is suggested that we should have a prudent reserve of at least 3 months rent before committing to a space or ~$1200,
†13. Other revenue proposals - see web page established for that

Profit/Loss type of analysis - it could work!

Costs
   
Rent
400.00
   negotiate w/ landlord for start-up curve
Utilities
0.00
   paid by landlord
phone service
~50.00
   estimated for 1 business line
†Hi-speed net
~50.00
 estimated for DSL
Insurance
~50.00
   must get a quote on this
†Total
550.00
 
   

Revenues:
   
Pledges
216.50
   5 @ $10/wk. ea., existing members - this would go up with more members
memberships
50.00
   1 new/mo. @ $50/ea.
donations
50.00
   1 donation/mo @ $50/ea.
other groups

129.90

   *3 groups/wk @ $10/ea.
‡cube rent
140.00
 to members only, 2 @ $70/mo/ea.
hosting biz
100.00
   *revenues from web & email hosting
library
30.00
   *rentals est. from books, videos or audiotape
†other
†100.00
 †other revenue proposals
‡Total
‡816.40
  _______    

Net
‡266.40

*note: some of these revenues would not start right away, but would take a few months, which is why we'd ask for a reduced start-up rent.

‡Other revenue proposals are being considered.
 
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