PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!  Thank you Karen Mora and crew for another wonderful holiday party.  Hope everyone is enjoying the holidays.   See you next year!

Sincerely,

Jennifer Loren

SBBA President  

SECRETARY'S MINUTES 
Submitted by Paula Mauro, SBBA Secretary

The regular meeting of the Santa Barbara Bookkeepers' Association was held on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at 11:30 a.m. at Mulligan's Cafe.  President Jennifer Loren opened the meeting.  New Member Linda Davis was introduced.

Announcements: 

- The updated SBBA Roster is available.

- Beginning with the January meeting, our lunch will cost $11.00.

- Our speaker was Don Duncan, Senior Vice President of Business First National Bank, 800 North Milpas Street, Suite A, Santa Barbara CA 93103.  Mr. Duncan has been in banking for more than 20 years.  He recommended that businesses select the bank that best matches their needs.

COME AND LEARN:

SPRING SEMESTER AT S.B. CITY COLLEGE BEGINS ON TUE. JAN 20, 2004

Acct. 160 - Accounting with QuickBooks will be on Tuesdays 5PM.  Class will be hands on in computer lab – room BC314  We will be using QuickBooks Pro 2003    Call Sandra O’Meara – Instructor – if you have any questions - 965-9907.  Submitted by Sandy O'Meara~

On the Internet, the Santa Barbara City College Web Site www.sbcc.cc.ca.us or  http://ce.sbcc.edu/classes.htm

The Santa Barbara QUICKBOOKS USERS GROUP Next Meeting:  MONDAY, JAN 5, 2004,

6PM – 8PM  @ THE SB CITY COLLEGE – WEST CAMPUS – BUSINESS & COMMUNICATIONS BUILDING  - ROOM BC214/CONFERENCE ROOM.  721 CLIFF DRIVE, SANTA BARBARA, CA   $15 TO RESERVE SEAT. Please send check payable to QB Users Group, PO Box 3302, S.B., CA 93130.  Pizza & drink included. 

For further information and future meeting dates email: qbusersgroup@aol.com, or, email Bonna Hamilton: bonna@silcom.com.   The SB QuickBooks Users Group are for ALL levels of QB users, and is an open forum for users to share experience, knowledge and support.  Our meetings are very successful and informative - please come join us!

FYI-"PAID FAMILY LEAVE" - In California, it's the law.  

For more information, visit: edd.ca.gov 

- Submitted by Sue Starlin

Officers                                                       Directors                                                                              

President:  Jennifer Loren                              Pam Allman, CPA 
V. Pres:    Karen Ziegler Mora                       Maureen Turk                          

Secretary:  Paula A. Mauro                           Vicki St. Martin
Treasurer:  Ken Jurgensen                             Roxanne Russell
                                                                   Caron Garliepp 

to send an email to the entire Board (officers and directors), contact Board@sbbaonline.org      

Contact the Newsletter Committee by calling or emailing any one of the following committee members.  

Deadline for information to be included in the Newsletter is the 5^th of each month:
 

Jan., May, Sept. - Kathy Rem   

Feb., June, Oct. - Jo Rogers

Mar., July, Nov. - Sandy Stites 
Apr., Aug., Dec. - Monica Dittrich   

NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: This months newsletter was prepared by Monica Dittrich.  Thank you as always for submissions!  Next months newsletter will be prepared by Kathy Rem.  Have a safe and blissful holiday season, Monica~