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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which schools have $200k PTA budgets?[/quote]

Nottingham. At least I know it has in the past.  Jamestown? 
The less willing a PTA is to share their budget, the more likely that budget approaches $200K[/quote]

Overall the north elementaries are actually a lot more open about their finances to the public than the south elementaries, but sometimes you have to dig through meeting minutes to find it. From what I can see of actuals (as opposed to budgets), Jamestown's revenues for 2016-17 looks to have been about $140k. Nottingham's for the same year were about $130k.[/quote]

That's probably because they make enough money to be required by law to file a nonprofit tax form. If you can't find the schools form, it's probably because they didn't have revenue to meet the reporting threshold.[/quote]

Again, wtf are you talking about? Most, if not all, of both the north and south PTAs are subject to the same audit and reporting requirements, both to the state and national organizations and to the feds. None of them are required to post their financials to the publicly-accessible portions of their websites, but most of the North schools do anyway (either the docs themselves or the meeting minutes discussing the numbers) while most of the South schools do not.[/quote]

That's not because they're hiding the information.  They just aren't as experienced and polished as the more engaged PTAs of the north.  [/quote]

I didn't say the south PTAs were trying to hide anything, I was refuting the assertion that north PTAs are hiding their financial information because their budgets are so big. That claim is simply untrue because almost all of them make their numbers publicly available even though they're not required to.[/quote]

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