2012 CSTR Annual Report

California Ships to Reefs, Inc
A Non-Profit Public Benefit Corporation
Tax ID 20-5733017
California Ships to Reefs’ vision is to establish a regional system of artificial reefs along the California coast to improve and enhance
the California fish, plant and marine ecosystem, and to enhance the tourism industry centered on fishing and diving.
Table of Contents
Chairman’s Letter
2-3
Education4
Finance5
Governmental Relations
6
Legal/Permits7
Public Relations
8
Reef Development
9-10
Science11
Shows and Events
12
Speaker’s Bureau
13
Veterans 13
Website14
15
Revenue and Expenses
Balance Sheet 16
Statement of Profit and Loss 17
Statement of Cash Flow
18
Board of Directors, Officers & Committee Chairs
19
CSTR Sponsors
20
CSTR Members
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Chairman’s Letter
This year’s theme for California Ships to Reefs is challenge and change. We’re facing new and unexpected obstacles to our
mission and we are moving quickly to change our structure and direction to meet these challenges.
Our first major challenge this year was the surprising opposition to our proposed state legislative bill, SB 1447. This bill would
have changed California’s artificial reef definition and brought it into conformance with the federal code, making it easier to
have state and federal agencies work together smoothly. But we made a strategic decision to ask our
author, State Senator Mimi Walters, to withdraw the bill when it appeared it faced some serious hurtles.
Opposition from an influential environmental group helped us recognize that while we have environmental support on a local level, we need to do more education and outreach on a state and federal level.
An even stronger blow was dealt to us when the Maritime Administration (MARAD), reversed its position
and told us the Kawishiwi was no longer available for reefing. Previously the federal agency had said
this retired fleet oiler was available and suitable for reefing. We had already chosen a location for it
south of Dana Point Harbor and begun the process of bidding for the ship’s preparation and sinking.
The Kawishiwi was meant to be our next major project and it was extremely disappointing to have the
ship offered to us and then taken away.
MARAD decided they would not make any ships available that had been built with PCB’s, a chemical used
in most of the ships in the Suisun Bay “ghost fleet.” That criteria, plus others they instituted, removed
all of the decommissioned ships in the Navy reserve fleet from consideration for reefing. Again we
recognized that although scientific studies support our view that we can safely reef these ships, there is
presently formidable opposition in the environmental community to this.
CSTR is now refocusing its energies on several fronts. One is the use of non-ship materials for artificial reefing. An example is
continuing our efforts to obtain surplus pier pilings that will be available when the Dana Point Harbor is revitalized. The pilings
can be used in many ways for reefing opportunities.
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We are exploring our political choices and working to lobby Congress and the Navy to reopen the reserve fleet for reefing.
We’re looking inwards as well and reorganizing our own foundation to become more
efficient. Towards that end, we have decided to combine our Chief Executive Officer and
Chief Administrative Officer positions and create the new position of Executive Director.
I’m delighted to announce that the new position will be filled by Eleanore Rewerts, our
current CAO. Eleanore is a founding member of CSTR and has worked tirelessly to build
progress and prestige for our mission. She has tremendous knowledge and passion
about artificial reefing and is eminently qualified to take the reins of leadership.
I will be ending my term as CEO and Chairman of the Board this November and stepping
down to take the board position of chairman emeritus. Replacing me as Chairman of
the Board is Andy Lee, our current Vice Chairman and Vice President of Science. Andy’s
background in marine biology, his pioneering work in aquaculture and his long association with artificial reefing and CSTR make him an outstanding choice for this role.
We are expanding our board of directors to add new expertise and energy to our
organization. We welcome our new board members, Rico Castro, Beth Lendway, Kenneth
Thompson, and J. Greg Wolf.
I am pleased with the success of CSTR during my opportunity to lead the organization.
The four years of my leadership has been an exciting time of membership growth, legislative accomplishments, fundraising successes and new governmental and community
alliances. I recognize that any success I enjoyed was a result of the hard work of us all. I am grateful for your energy and interest to this cause
during my term.
Joel Geldin
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Education
Our newest CSTR committee, Education, was formed in 2012. The committee’s goal is to educate young people by developing
curriculum and presentations in K-12 settings, learning centers, aquariums and museums.
Our committee is creating a kid-friendly presentation that will be colorful and entertaining. We’re researching the best ways to
rework our former presentation for this purpose. We’re
also considering potential partners to develop curriculum and we will be approaching the Maritime Museum of
San Diego and Sea World.
Chairing the new committee is Patrick Smith, who has
an impressive background in education, research and
diving. Patrick is a board director of the Los Angeles
Maritime Museum Research Society and the Coastal
Maritime Archaeology Resources. He has published
papers with the Society for Historical Archaeology
and the Society for California Archaeology. He’s made
many presentations to students from the elementary to
university level, as well as historical societies, dive and
other groups. Patrick also has deep roots in the diving
community. He’s been a NAUI Instructor since 1979 and
is a commercial diver. He worked sport and commercial fishing vessels for 10 years and is a US Coast Guard Licensed Captain
up to 100 ton vessels.
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Finance
The Finance Committee is developing new opportunities to fund our overhead and our special projects. We’re working harder
to convert volunteers into paid members and recruit development personnel for major fundraising efforts.
New possible sources of money are large settlement funds from the Montrose Chemical Plant and San Onofre’ mitigation
funds. As a result of a lawsuit against the Montrose Chemical Plant a fund was created to help restore the Santa Monica Bay.
An agreement with Southern California Edison created a fund for the San Onofre’ Nuclear Generator area. We have projects,
including our Malaga Cove site, that may be eligible to receive some of these funds.
We completed an agreement with a new credit card processing company that will save
us approximately 38% in fees and add the capability of taking credit cards on our
website without donors having to use PayPal. PayPal will still be available for those
who want to use it. In addition, we added Discover to our accepted cards (VISA and
MasterCard). These can be used on both the CSTR website and the CSTR Store.
CSTR now has an account at Cars4Causes.org. This website allows our supporters to
donate funds to us in an innovative new way. At Cars4Causes.org, supporters can have
their unwanted vehicles taken away and become CSTR tax deductible donations.
Our 2011 year end donation request letters to over 300 fishing and diving industry
companies yielded over $30,000 in merchandise donations and almost $3,000 from
in-kind donations. Our strategy is to reach companies at the end of the year as they
are making final tax deduction decisions and before their next year budgets are solidified. We plan to continue this successful strategy in 2012.
Another area where we are actively recruiting new talent is in grant writing. Our previous grant writer left to care for a new
baby and we want to fill that opening quickly. We have identified some new funding opportunities at both state and federal
levels and we will pursue these.
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Governmental
Relations
CSTR had a challenging year in government relations. We pulled back on some legislative goals in order to build support and
educate legislators and the public about the benefits of artificial reefing. We continue to forge new alliances.
Our bill SB 1447 was authored by State Senator Mimi Walters and later withdrawn from the legislative calendar at our
request. The bill would have brought the state artificial reef definition into conformance with the federal code, helping to
streamline the approval process and making it easier for state and federal agencies to work together. Our team worked with
the California Department of Fish and Game to write the bill.
We had some unexpected opposition to SB 1447 from the environmental community, so we made the strategic decision to
drop the bill while we build more support. While local environmental groups understand and appreciate our mission, we
need to further educate the environmental community on a state and federal level.
We contacted our State Senators, Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, seeking their legislative help to make two Coast Guard
cutters available for donation as artificial reefs. Senator Boxer was reluctant to go against the wishes of the Coast Guard,
which claims reefing the ships would not be
cost effective. We are working to educate
appropriate Coast Guard sources with studies that prove it is cost effective and that the
Coast Guard’s hopes to put the ships back into
service are not practical as the ships are now
obsolete. Congressman Mike Thompson (D-St.
Helena) has expressed interest in helping us
with this legislation.
We reached out to Senator Mark Begich and
Congressman Don Young, both of Alaska, regarding their identical bills which provide for disposal of seized pirate fishing
vessels. We are asking both legislators to consider transferring these vessels to states or non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) for deployment as artificial reefs. We would also like to create a data base of available vessels so reefing organizations could apply for them.
CSTR gave its support to Senator Daniel Inouye’s bill, the “Trash Free Seas Act of 2011.” The bill would broaden and
strengthen the Marine Debris Program, which is compatible with our goal to keep plastics out of the ocean.
Our team is waiting for the results of the 2012 elections before proceeding with further Congressional lobbying. We want to
be sure our efforts are targeted towards the Congressmembers who will be available to help us. We hope to find representatives who will help us make changes in Maritime Administration/Navy regulations so we can work more directly with those
agencies.
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Legal/Permits
Our Legal/Permits team navigated the often muddy and confusing waters of governmental agencies this year and was able to
make some important strides.
The team contacted the final three permitting agencies we will be
working with during our ship sinking process. The federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) won’t work with us directly.
They defer to other agencies. We are pleased that the California EPA (CalEPA) and the Water Quality Board now accept federal
EPA guidelines as suitable for the state, which streamlines our process. The state agencies were glad to learn CSTR is adding
removal of all plastics from ship sinks even though that is not required of us.
The City of San Diego considers the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) submitted for the Yukon sink as adequate for a future
sink in that area. We will be required to update any information that has changed since 2000.
Our partnership with the California State University system to provide baseline studies for reefing projects is moving toward
completion. We examined the standard University contract for partnerships and decided it adequately covers our concerns
and requirements.
A key legal document was crafted when our legal team developed language for our Scope of Work Request for Proposal (RFP).
This is the document we will use to get bids from contractors on exactly what they must do to make a ship sink worthy. We
used this language to review three bids for our Kawishiwi project. None of the bids were complete and only one contractor
complied with our request for additional information. Since the Kawishiwi is no longer available, any future bid will need to be
modified. However the work done to create the RFP will be very useful for future projects.
Legal submitted a letter regarding the Dana Point pier pilings project to the Dana Point Harbor Marina Improvement Project
Draft State Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) of Sept. 2011. This report outlines a plan to dispose of the pier pilings by
removing them and dumping them at a landfill. We were surprised and disappointed to learn of this plan as CSTR and the
Harbor authorities have discussed, for at least 2 years, moving the 1200 pier pilings to create artificial reefs. Our letter proposed alternate options to the SEIR’s disposal method, including Dana Point keeping the pilings and creating reefs under our
supervision, or Dana Point donating the pilings to CSTR for that same purposex.
Permitting for the Foss 125/Cleo Street Barge marker buoy project, which was previously put on hold, has now been moved
to the forefront. This project would install a marker buoy and plaque at a Laguna Beach location to commemorate the sinking
of the Foss 125. The buoy permit from the US Coast Guard, which was held by Project Manager Bob Evans was transferred
to CSTR and documentation is being prepared to submit to the Army Corps of Engineers and the California Coastal
Commission.
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Public Relations
CSTR had an eventful year of educational and fundraising activities, legislative lobbying and new actions and governmental
changes and surprises. Our Public Relations committee was busy spreading the word through press releases, newsletters
and promotion.
Some of the activities we promoted included our new affiliation with Cars4Causes.org, our
very successful fundraiser at SCUBA Show 2012, the Casino de Mayo, the special DUI equipment raffle, and the introduction and eventual withdrawal of our Senate Bill 1447.
We urged our members and supporters to “like” Pacific Wilderness on the company’s Facebook page during the month of February and Pacific Wilderness donated $5 to us for each
like, a total of $2000 for CSTR.
We promoted the auction of the Yukon dolphin, painted by the artist Wyland and announced
its winning bid. We had hoped to net more income from this auction and we are investigating
more effective ways to promote this type of event in the future.
New merchandise was launched and publicized, including the unveiling of the CSTR Kawishiwi
Project logo and the new Kawishiwi merchandise, available in the CSTR store.
Our attendance at conventions and special events was touted and we used our PR team to
seek volunteers and support at these events.
In light of MARAD’s new policies regarding ship availability, the board took a fresh look at our mission statement and how we
could expand it to include non-ship based artificial reefing opportunities. The Public Relations Committee explored this task
and helped write this new CSTR mission statement:
California Ships to Reefs’ vision is to establish a regional system of artificial reefs along the California
coast to improve and enhance the California fish, plant and marine ecosystem, and to enhance the tourism
industry centered on fishing and diving.
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Reef Development
Our Reef Development Committee did a great deal of work this year on the Project Kawishiwi, which included determining a
suitable shipyard to ready the vessel for sinking and developing the Scope of Work document we needed to obtain bids for the
project. Unfortunately our efforts were halted due to MARAD reversing its position on the Kawishiwi’s availability for reefing.
However, when we find a new sink vessel the work we completed will move the new project ahead much faster.
The team is now investigating new sink alternatives. We researched and found some west coast ships that meet MARAD’s requirements, including three US Coast Guard vessels that were built before the PCB era (MARAD will not accept ships that were
built with these chemicals). The Coast Guard has been reluctant
to reef ships, claiming this is not an economically sound alternative and we are working to prove to the Coast Guard the economic
viability of our plans. We are also researching the availability and
appropriateness of private/commercial vessels, DEA/Customs
confiscations in California waters and vessels that may become
available through military surplus auction sites.
As the process of obtaining ships to sink becomes more challenging, we are focusing on non-ship materials for reef development.
Projects in the works include:
1. Dana Point Pier Pilings: There are approximately 1200 pier
pilings in the Dana Point Harbor that will need to be disposed of
as part of the harbor’s revitalization project. CSTR has been in
negotiations with Dana Point for two years to form a partnership to
use these materials for reefing. We were surprised and disappointed to find that the Environmental Impact
Report (EIR) for the harbor project, issued this year, only talked of bring the pilings to a dump site. We
submitted a commentary on the report explaining the viability and importance of reefing the materials. We
are waiting for the response in the final EIR.
2. Manufactured Structures: We are considering molded structures for sinking, such as those the Humboldt Area Saltwater Anglers will use for fishing reefs. Another organization, Eternal Reefs, uses reef balls
in their business of interring cremated remains underseas. These kinds of structures are crab pot friendly
and may enhance fishing opportunities. Our Humboldt area fishing interests may be attracted to these
projects.
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3. Other metallic vehicles: Tanks and airplanes being returned from war duty may be available. Our team
is researching where these are and if we can obtain them.
4. Reefing Partnerships: The team is investigating partnering officially with other organizations for both
funding and reef placement. Organizations we are considering include Humboldt Area Saltwater Anglers,
FishReef.org and Eternal Reefs.
In other activities, we met with the local fishermen of Fort Bragg to discuss potential sink sites in the area. The current suggestions are unusable as they are either in fisheries areas or too deep for our
purposes, but we have gone back to the fishermen to seek other suggestions.
The Hard Core Dive Team agreed to survey a new sink site just north of
Marina Del Rey. They have a team member who is well versed in dive surveys
and we expect to have a thorough survey together with photos and/or video
before the end of December.
Beach Cities Scuba, an Orange County dive company and owner of the Riviera
out of Dana Point, agreed to help with the survey of the Newport Beach site.
The Kawishiwi Project Team with help with the site’s initial survey.
Dive charter business is down by 50% in San Diego since Mexico has become much stricter about enforcing diving and fishing visas. Many people have contacted us about putting down a
new vessel near the Yukon to encourage more diving business.
After a year of discussions, the City of San Diego has determined
that we can use the Yukon EIR for placement of additional reefs in
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Science
The Science Committee is working vigorously to develop partnerships with CSTR in the scientific and research community. We
are presently developing the information we need to build these partnerships. These will put CSTR in the vanguard for collecting data to monitor the effects of artificial reefs on marine life.
Our science team strongly believes in the value of baseline studies to
show ocean life activity before and after reef materials are put in place.
We are committed to answering questions from the scientific community
about whether artificial reefing affects marine life in beneficial ways.
We have solicited help from potential study partners and we have developed alliances with California State University at Northridge (CSUN)
and California State University at Long Beach (CSULB). Dr. Larry Allen,
a professor at CSUN and Executive Director of the Southern California
Maritime Institute (SCMI), would handle flora/fauna data analyses. His
colleague, Dr. Zed Mason at CSULB, would do the sediment and water
column analyses. Both professors are part of SCMI and can draw on
other studies of the areas.
Dr. Allen also gave our committee useful insight into the question of
whether we wanted to work with several institutions or focus on just
one. He pointed out that one institution will maintain the study’s continuity and give our results more credibility. If we use several institutions, other scientists might assume we are shopping for the results we want to see.
Our team is researching the costs involved for the equipment and volunteers to do the surveys. Dr. Allen prepared a proposal
for the CSUN’s Grant Office.
The Science Team is working on a strategy for building stronger bridges in the environmental community. We want to educate
environmental organizations and share studies showing the ecological benefits of artificial reefing, such as new ones from
Florida and Australia. A key piece of legislation we initiated and later had withdrawn, SB 1447, was opposed by environmental
groups. We recognize we must reach out to these organizations to share valuable information.
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Shows /Events
We were proud to have very successful showings for CSTR this year at events in Southern and
Northern California. The highlight was in May when we had the SCUBA Show in Long Beach and
the Northern California Dive and Travel Expo in Santa Clara.
We garnered a host of new email list members, volunteers
and paid memberships. We talked with more than 500
attendees at both shows and didn’t have a single negative
comment or concern.
Our Casino de Mayo Party at the Long Beach SCUBA
Show was a huge hit. More than 300 people attended the
fundraiser and our revenues were almost $15,000. The
Saturday night party, at the Convention Center’s Seaside Ballroom, included gaming, music, Mexican food,
drinks and dancing. The new owner of SCUBA Show,
Mark Young, was a sponsor of the party and our many
generous donors gave exciting prizes for the raffle and
silent auction.
We exhibited at the Fred Hall Fishing Show in Long
Beach in March and gained a great deal of support
from the fishing community. Our new video, showing
the kind of fish we attract to a wreck, drew people to
our booth and our spin to win raffle wheel brought in
money and attention.
We reached out to the environmental community at the New World F.E.S.T. in Santa Monica, Oct. 7-9 2011. Stephen Mendel
presented our new environmental presentation and Andy Lee participated in the show’s discussion panel. The show’s financial
problems led to a disappointing attendance and early closure, but we made some quality contacts at the show and new friends
for reefing in the Santa Monica Bay.
The team is now researching all small venue shows/festivals in areas where we want to sink ships so we can foster awareness
and support in those areas.
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Speakers Bureau
Our Speakers Bureau team raised support and awareness for our mission at dive clubs, conventions, government agencies
and many other organizations in 2012. We are continuing to professionalize and expand our reach as we collect information
on business and fraternal organizations to be approached in 2013.
The CSTR presentation was updated to include the Newport Beach sink site and add survey information on the Marina Del Rey
site. With MARAD’s new policies regarding ship availability, we
must now revise our presentations to reflect these changes
and CSTR’s response to them. The team will be working on this
project in the coming months.
Some of the organizations we spoke to in 2012 include the
Orange County Tourism Council, Anaheim/Orange County Visitors & Convention Bureau, the Newport Beach City Council, the
Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce Marine Committee and
the Newport Beach Harbor Commission. Dive clubs included
Sea Ventures Dive Club, Channel Islands Divers, Valley Dive Club,
and Santa Clarita Dive Club. We also presented to the Marina Del Rey Anglers and Rotary Club of Brea.
The team made our standard presentation more accessible to the public by breaking it down into smaller segments for posting
on the CSTR website. Voice over was provided by Stephen Mendel.
We finalized our new presentation for the environmental community and debuted at the New World F.E.S.T. (TNWF), where it was
well received.
Veterans
The Veterans Committee reached out to many crew alumni groups and received a great deal of support for reefing veterans’
decommissioned vessels. However, MARAD’s policy changes this year now makes most of the specific ships we targeted for
reefing unavailable. Therefore, we are currently researching conferences of veterans groups that aren’t attached to a particular vessel, such as the Merchant Marine Veterans Association.
We made the keynote speech at the USS Kawishiwi Reunion in Seattle before MARAD’s action reversing their position on the
Kawishiwi’s availability for reefing. We also prepared a new logo for the Kawashiwi Project and launched its use on hats and
other merchandise we brought to the reunion.
We discussed reefing as a disposal option with the USCGC Iris alumni group and received a favorable response but we would
need an act of Congress to obtain the ship.
CSTR sent letters to the crews of the Ponchatoula and the Mispillion, two ships we had hoped to obtain but were removed from
consideration by MARAD. We thanked the crew alumni for their support even though we were not able to secure their vessels
for reefing.
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Website
The CSTR website team is constantly looking
for ways to make our website more attractive
and useable.
The new “Who is CSTR?” presentation was
completed and these short presentations
were posted to the website so visitors may
quickly and easily understand what our
organization is all about.
The team found a free webinar service for our
organization which we can use for webinars
and simple conference calls. It includes a
local California contact number, which helps
CSTR’s members and volunteers avoid long
distance charges. The team’s webinar training meeting on July 23 covered work on both
the California Ships to Reefs and Ship to Reefs
International (STRI) websites. This enables
more team members to participate in website
updates as they occur.
We added two new sections to our Useful Links (renamed Links/Studies). It now includes studies on the economic and ecological benefits of artificial reefing.
We incorporated our new credit card processing company’s software into our sites (CSTR and the CSTR Store) so people can
purchase items without using PayPal.
We’ve submitted several new ideas to our host,
Wild Apricot, for improvements to make our site
more user-friendly. We were successful in getting a modification that speeds up data transfer
between administration and membership roles
for the team.
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Revenues and Expenses
Individual/Business Contribu3ons Dona3ons -­‐ Merchandise/In-­‐Kind Membership Dues Grants & Contract Expenses Opera3ng Expenses Shows/Events & Mee3ng Expenses Miscellanous Expenses 15
CALIFORNIA SHIPS TO REEFS, INC.
Balance Sheet
July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012
ASSETS FY ‘12
Current Assets
Cash in Bank
$35,279.66
Accounts Receivable
440.00
9,176.08
Total Other Current Assets
TOTAL ASSETS
$44,895.74
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
Liabilities
Current Liabilities
Accounts Payable
$0.00
Sales Tax Liability
25.02
Restricted Accounts Liability
Total Liabilities
27,198.60
$27,223.62
Equity
Opening Balance Equity
7,921.20
Retained Earnings
16,239.65
Net Income
-6,488.73
Total Equity
$17,672.12
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY
$44,895.74
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CALIFORNIA SHIPS TO REEFS, INC.
Statement of Profit & Loss
July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012
REVENUES FY ‘12
Contributed Support
Individual/Business Contributions
$22,834.00
Donations – Merchandise/In-Kind
21,868.31
Total Contributed Support $44,702.31
Earned Income
Membership Dues – Individuals $
920.00
Total Earned Income
$
920.00
Total Revenues
$45,622.31
EXPENSES
Grants & Contract Expenses
Operating Expenses
Shows/Events & Meeting Expenses
Miscellaneous Expenses
Total Expenses
$32,054.30
2,485.71
11,403.65
1,767.54
$47,711.20
Net Ordinary Income
$-2,088.89
Other Income/Expense
$-4,399.84
Net Income
$-6,488.73
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CALIFORNIA SHIPS TO REEFS, INC.
Statement of Cash Flows
July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012
OPERATING ACTIVITIES FY ‘12
Net Income
$ -6,488.73
Adjustments to Reconcile Net Income to Net Cash
Provided by Operations
Dues Receivable
$
225.00
Donations-390.00
Donations – Merchandise 9,411.39
Donations – In Kind
-2,681.00
Inventories for Use
483.03
Deposits-375.00
Accounts Payable
-3024.05
Sales Tax Liability
-140.51
Current Liabilities – Restricted Accounts
13,271.38
Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities
$10,291.51
Net Cash Increase for Period
$10,291.51
Cash at Beginning of Period
$24,988.15
Cash at End of Period
$35,279.66
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Board of Directors
Casey Allen
Director
Joel Geldin
Chairman
Andrew Lee
Vice Chairman
Dean A. Rewerts
Director
Eleanore Rewerts
Director
Richard W. Long
Chief Advisor
Officers
Joel Geldin, Chairman and CEO
Andrew Lee, Vice-Chairman and VP Science
Eleanore Rewerts, Secretary/Treasurer
Dean A Rewerts, VP Reef Development
Committee
Chairs
Education, Patrick Smith
Finance, Eleanore Rewerts
Governmental Relations, Dean A Rewerts
Leagal/Permits, J. Jeffrey Morris
Newsletter, Jeremy Bonnett
Non-Ship Materials, Robert Evans
Public Relations, Eleanore Rewerts
Reef Development, Dean Rewerts
Science, Andrew Lee
Shows/Events, Eleanore Rewerts
Speakers Bureau, Jeffrey McGrath
Veterans, Larry Ankuda
Website, Kenneth Thompson
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California Ships to Reefs
Sponsors
Gifts over $10,000
Diving Unlimited International
Gifts $5,000 - $9,999
Aqua Lung
Pacific Wilderness, Inc.
Scuba Travel Ventures
TUSA
Zulu Nyala
Gifts $2,500 - $4,999
Aggressor Fleet
Deep Outdoors
Horizon Charters Dive & Eco Adventures
Lia Portrait Design
Ocean Reef, Inc.
OCEANIC
Pelican Products
Traders’ Ridge Resort - Yap
Gifts $1,000 - $2,499
AERIS
Atomic Aquatics
Catalina Island
Dive Paradise - Cozumel
Divi Resorts
DJ Rausa, San Diego
Dolphin Scuba
Halcyon Manufacturing
Hammerhead Press
Hermosa Hotel, Catalina Island
Hollywood Divers
Inter-Ocean Tours
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Lahaina Divers
Manthiri Maldives
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Scuba.com
SCUBAPRO
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Sport Chalet
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The Ritz Carlton, Laguna Niguel
Otterbox
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Scuba Schools of America
SUBGEAR
Submersible Systems
Trident
Gifts $250 - $499
Akona
Apollo Sports, Inc.
APS Mantaray
Catalina Cylinders
Diversitea
Diving Charters
Karenz Creations
Klamath Kayak Fishing
Miss Scuba
Ocean Management Systems
Princeton Tec
Psalty Adventures
Second Stage Ocean Sports
SubSalve USA Corp
Tektite
Gifts Under $250
Aliso Creek Inn
Andy’s Scuba World
DIVEGEAR, Inc.
Explorer Diving Adventures
JMJ Wetsuits
John Chatterton
Magician Dive Boat
Pocket Weights
Rip Curl
Sea Cure
In-Kind Donors
Advanced Diver Magazine
Airgas San Luis Obispo
California Diving News
Depth Perceptions
DiveNewsWire
Diving Almanac & Book of Records
Gifts $500 - $999
Fred Hall Shows
Blue Lake Casino/Full Throttle Sport Fishing Gates Underwater Products
Chammyz
Giovanni’s Fish Market & Galley
Cramer Decker Ind.
Maritime Museum of San Diego
Divers Alert Network
Morro Bay Harbor Festival
The Divers Platform
Northern California Dive and Travel Expo
Ikelite Underwater Systems
Ocean Explorers
Inside Afghanistan
Ocean Technology Systems
Natora-Guy Harvey Jewelry
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
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SCUBA Show
SLO Divers
Truth Aquatics
Waterhorse Charters
Credits
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Editing by Jeanne Nelson
Photography by Michael Bear, Michael
Kazma, Ben Licari, Patrick Smith, Partial
Pressure Productions
Members Charter Level
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Larry Ankuda
Simon Burrow
Rico Castro
Bonita Chamberlin
John Daley
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