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The Chapter Fund of the AMS
The Chapter Fund is administered by the Chapter Activities Committee, which
consists of three members appointed by the President with the approval of the
Board of Directors. The members serve overlapping terms of three years each.
The Committee dispenses funds budgeted annually by the Board to help AMS chapters
defray unusual expenses (i.e., other than operating expenses).
The members of the Committee
for 2008 are Russell E. Murray, Chair, Alexandra Amati-Camperi, Carl Leafstedt.
Following are guidelines for
the Committee's activities.
A. Basic Guidelines
1. Requests must be consistent
with the objective of the Society as defined in Article II of its By-Laws, must
be addressed in writing by a chapter officer to the chair of the Committee,
and must be accompanied by appropriate documentation.
2. The Committee provides
only partial support for any request, ordinarily no more than one-half of the
sum reflected in the request.
B. Acceptable Fund subvention
requests
1. The Fund may reimburse
up to one-half the 30-day economy airfare (not meals or lodging) for each chapter's student
representatives on the AMS Council to attend the Society's Annual Meeting. (If the representative drives or takes other public transportation, the reimbursement request should not exceed the 30-economy airfare amount. Requests for reimbursement for tickets purchased less than 30 days from the date of travel cannot be fully honored.) To
request such reimbursement, a chapter officer (or student him/herself, upon approval
by the Council Secretary) should submit to the Chair of the committee invoices or receipts, or a statement outlining automobile
expenses, etc. Only original receipts (not photocopies) are acceptable.
Please use this form when making
submission.
Please submit forms within three weeks of the meeting!
2. The Fund may provide
up to one half of unusual expenses incurred for chapter meetings or other chapter
activities. Such expenses may include the fees or other expenses of guest speakers
or performers at chapter meetings, or the costs of duplicating abstracts of
papers read at such meetings. The upper limit for this subvention is currently
$200. Please send a note to the committee chair, Russel E. Murray, documenting the expenses.
C. Unacceptable Subvention
Purposes
1. The Fund may not provide
subventions for chapters operating expenses, such as payment for clerical help,
postal charges, purchase or rental of office equipment, or costs of announcements
or chapter directories. (For these purposes the Society allocates annually to
each chapter a per-capita sum -- $1.00 for 2007-08 -- calculated by multiplying
that sum by the number of AMS members within the chapter's geographical boundaries.)
D. Other Subventions
1. Requests for subventions
from the Fund that do not clearly fall within a category described above will
be considered by the Committee on a case-by-case basis.
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