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Society Reports
time.
Major expenses for the Society in 2016 were $9,450 for annual hosting fees for the SPNHC website plus upgrades to the
website database performed in 2015, $9,219 for Collection
Forum Vol 29 (2015), a $5,000 loan to the Denver LOC for
the SPNHC 2017 annual meeting, $3,758 for the Christine
Allen grant and the Fitzgerald Travel grants, $3,520 for the
Best Practices Wiki, $2,272 for membership booth accessories and transportation to meetings, $1,416 for three issues of
the SPNHC newsletter, and $1,293 in expenses related to the
upcoming Storage book.
Additional expenses include $755 for hotel fees for the
SPNHC President to attend the 2016 annual meeting in Berlin, $750 for the sponsorship of annual congressional district
visits, $591 for printing extra copies of SPNHC books, and
$275 for the annual fee to Cross Ref.
The Treasurer's Office incurred the following expenses:
$5,500 for the 2015 financial review, tax preparation and filing, $3,399 for insurance, $817 in merchant fees, and $150 in
annual fees for QuickBooks.
Long-term investment funds were consistent with the market;
SPNHC investments saw a market value gain of $3,906 while
the money market account earned $3,448 in dividends and
interest. The CD account earned $91 in interest.
The first part of 2017 has seen good income activity. By April
30, $31,665 has been received from membership dues, including deferred dues paid in 2016. As of April 30, 2017, we
have 620 active members, including Life members.
Membership renewals included 20 student, 350 individual, 44
library/subscriptions, 34 institutional and 4 corporate renewals. As of April 30, 137 new members have joined for 2017,
of which 30 are student memberships, 8 are institutional, and
the remainder are individual. By April 30, 147 members who
paid in 2016 had yet to renew for 2017.
Please pay your dues on time.
In the first quarter of 2017, sales of all our publications totaled $2,243. Additionally, by April 30, we received $1,418 in
royalties from Copyright Clearance Center. We have received
$557 in unrestricted donations and $1,021 in restricted donations. A sincere thank you to all.
Expenses incurred in FY2017 as of April 30 include $11,664
for publishing and printing Collection Forum Vol. 30, $5,500
to Burdette, Smith & Bish for the 2016 Financial Review,
$3,960 for the Best Practices Wiki, $975 for fixes to the
website, $750 to AIBS for congressional district visits, $502
for online hosting of the Spring 2017 newsletter, and $500 for
membership booth rental at meetings. The Society anticipates

expenses related to publications, travel grants, insurance
premiums, the Best Practices Wiki, the trade show booth, and
2017 online election.
Please contact the SPNHC Treasurer for further details.
For their help throughout the year, I would like to extend
thanks to Linda Ford (Museum of Comparative Zoology,
Harvard University), Andrew Bentley (University of Kansas),
Barbara Thiers (New York Botanical Garden), Cindy Opitz
(Museum of Natural History, University of Iowa), Christine
Johnson (American Museum of Natural History), and Chris
Norris, Susan Butts, and Tim White (Yale Peabody Museum
of Natural History). The American Museum of Natural History, Division of Paleontology provided general office support for the Treasurer.
Respectfully submitted,
Ruth O'Leary, Treasurer

Sessional Committees
US Federal Collections
The Sessional Committee on Federal
Collections is tasked with identifying ways to improve communication
between U.S. Federal agencies and
non-Federal repositories regarding the
development of policies and procedures
for the management of Federal Collections.
The committee is currently working on a positional paper
reviewing current challenges and potential solutions in this
area. The committee drafted a SPNHC/Natural Science Collections Alliance comment for the Federal Register regarding EPA Clean Water Rule definitions. The committee also
collaborated with the Legislation and Regulations Committee
to draft a response to the proposed Department of Interior
regulations under the 2009 Paleontological Resources Preservation Act, and the committee chair coordinated with the
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Government Affairs Committee on a Federal Register comment, as well as proposed
guidelines for confidentiality of locality data. The committee
chair is preparing an invited article on the same topic for Fossil News: The Journal of Avocational Paleontology.
Respectfully submitted,
Matthew Brown, Chair

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