American Iris Society

“Revenues generated via dues, sale of fertilizer, club iris, and other routine club functions, etc”

“Revenues generated via item 28 - Hosting National American Iris Society (AIS) 2022 Convention, and Item 29 Annual Club Rhysome Sale. Includes $5000 grant from the City of Las Cruces (in support of bus expenses for the conference) and $1,500 grant from El Paso Electric to support the Conference, and horticulture scholarship.”

“The expenses listed are directly related to the Hosting of the American Iris Society (AIS) National Convention April 11-16, 2022. We established and maintained 6 public Gardens over 3 years, prior and viewed over the course of the convention. The expenses included costs for Buses, Food, Hotel Usages, Garden maintenance, porta-potties, Tents, chairs, and other related expenses. Also the expenses associated with conducting our "Big Dig" where we dig up iris rhysomes for our annual sale in September. Other costs include purchase of new varieties and materials, fertilizer, maintenance of gardens, website maintenance, etc.”

“Item 28 - MVIS hosted the AIS National Convention in Las Cruces, NM April 11-16, 2022. All the expenses shown were in support of this event. MVIS developed, planted and maintained 6 public Iris Gardens in support of the convention. Costs associated with this event included: Busses to transport attendees to all the gardens, Meals associated with the conference, Hotel use fees, Garden development and Maintenance costs. Conference Reservation costs were collected to cover the estimated costs for hosting the event, based on an attendance of around 200 attendees. Total attendance was apprx 260 attendees which allowed the conference to make a profit. The City of Las Cruces provided a $5000, grant to support the cost of bussing attendees to the convention gardens, and El Paso Electric provided a grant of $1,500 to support the event, with the caviote, if a profit was made, the funds would go to NMSU to support a horticultural scholarship. (We are currently working with NMSU to establish an endowed scholarship. Item 29 - Our primary fund raising activity is our annual rhysome sale, held the weekend after labor day. Members dig up (their own) irises and provide them to the club. The club , also dug up irises in the convention gardens (we ended up with over 2000 unique irises for sale. The iris rhysomes are cleaned, disinfected, marketed and sold. The results of having many unique convention irises, allowed us to increase our normal revenue for this year. The expenses were for mall rental, materials for cleaning, storing, and displaying the irises for sale. Item 30- We have some expenses in support of our normal monthly meetings and activities. Costs include the purchase of new iris releases each year (allows members and Las Cruces to keep new introductions in the club). the cost of planting materials, pots, fertilizer, labels, maintenance of web site, and procurement of photographs of our irises, etc. Item 26 - Liabilities - Once we paid all the convention expenses our liabilities are basically Zero.”