Dear Members,
We hope you are doing all right in these strange and stressful times. The long-term prospects of the Seattle Go Center are bright, as Bill Chiles reported in the recent Building Development Update. We will have an excellent space in the new 23 story building planned for our corner. However, in the short term, we have a cash crunch. Our property taxes have gone up 66% from last year, because our property is so valuable, which means we need to pay $13,417 more than last year.
Due to COVID-19 precautions, the Go Center has been closed to visitors for almost a year now. This has been a huge hit to our programming, but the budget has been only moderately damaged, since so much of our past activities have been free or inexpensive. Luckily, our downstairs tenant, Caring Pet Clinic, is still open and paying us rent. We also benefited greatly from the membership drive last June. (Yearly memberships are still being extended while we wait out COVID-19.) But now, with the jump in property taxes and the creep in utility bills, we need help again if you can provide it.
I realize that not everybody is in a position to make a donation, but if you can, please consider helping us through this gap by donating to the Seattle Go Center. There is a Paypal Link at the bottom of our donation page. You can use it with credit cards; you do not need a Paypal account.
https://www.seattlego.org/donate/
Sincerely,
Brian Allen
Operations Manager
Seattle Go Center
700 NE 45th St
Seattle, WA 98105
206 545-1424 (Go Center)
206 632-1122 (home office)
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