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questionnaires to us which reflect important information about the
vehicles you drive and for which you are responsible. This broad
spectrum of input on operational problems as well as your personal
impressions about our entire fleet program will be helpful. This
will enable us to evaluate the many areas which are necessary to
conduct such a far-flung fleet program
in
all fifty states, most
effectively.
I realize that the vehicle needs vary as to the individual church
areas due to weather conditions, church activities, size of family,
etc. We want to try to fulfill all of these needs to the greatest
degree possible within the budgetary constraints we are all having
to work within.
As all of you are aware, we are having to make rather severe budgetary
reductions
in
virtually every area of the Work. These are absolutely
mandatory, of course, since we have a cash flow problem due to the
receivership impact and resultant loss of credit with the banking
institutions.
As a result we have decided to curtail the replacement of all of our
fleet vehicles for the next few months
in
order to meet our necessary
budgetary reductions.
Fortunately we are current in nearly all of
our vehicle trade-outs which will enable us to drive the vehicles a
little bit longer even though you may be on the top end of the mileage
level and are due for a trade-out. I am sure that during this current
budgetary crisis, however, all of you will be very willing to drive
the vehicles for a longer period of time.
This will help us a great
deal
in
balancing the budget.
We certainly appreciate the cooperation of all of you
in
this crisis
ane
wanted you to know that we will do everything that we can to aid
and assist you
in
the area of providing vehicles and service to
expedite this most important work. Thanks again for all of your help!
--Ellis LaRavia
FESTIVAL OFFICE
Greetings from PASADENA!
Some of our office records and furniture are still in moving vans on
the road, but the Festival Office is now operating on the campus in
Pasadena. It seems like we have been moving forever, but complications
due to the recent receivership prevented us from arriving here any
sooner.
In fact, the receivership has hurt our preparation for the Feast of
Tabernacles 1979 in several ways! When the receivership struck, we
were scheduled to send our Housing Officers out to the various sites
across the United States to prepare for members' lodging this next
autumn. The men representing the Brochure also were scheduled to
visit our festival cities in an attempt to secure helpful and infor
mative advertising for next year. However, under the receivership,
it was impossible to get expense money for these people to travel-
therefore, we are over six weeks behind!