Charity Car Washing

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Charity Car Washing

• Building Community Goodwill
• While
• Watching Your Bottom Line Grow.

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Community Support

• City Manager
• Environmental Compliance Officer
• Delta County School District
• Redeemer Lutheran Church

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City Support
July 11, 2002     Lorie Cady Cruisin Clean Car
Wash 153 Main St. Delta, CO 81416   Dear
Lorie,   I would like to take the opportunity to
thank you for your efforts and involvement in our
community through your organization related to
car wash fund raisers. Your sensitivity to the
environment is only a single component to this
success. From the standpoint of community,
Cruisin Clean Car Wash has allowed numerous
youth groups the ability to successfully raise
funds without the traditional methods of door to
door solicitation from our business community. As
a business owner I am sure you have been subject
to the seemingly day-to-day requests for
assistance to help one organization after another
to meet a financial goal. Your program has had
great success in assisting while taking the
pressure off our other businesses throughout the
community. Your program also provides an
atmosphere on our Main Street that characterizes
what our community is about, commitment to our
youth, home town family spirit, and a safe and
energetic quality of life.   On behalf of the
City of Delta we thank you and wish you continued
success.     Rich Englehart City Manager City of
Delta
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Environmental Support
Dear Cruisin Clean Car Wash, Thank you for
helping various fund raising organizations
operate in an Environmentally Smart manner.
Too often, these well-meaning organizations hurt
the environment and may unknowingly be breaking
the law. Due to recent enforcement of federal
stormwater regulations, the City of Delta has had
to order legitimate charities to cease and desist
their parking lot or street-side washing
activities because soap, oil, grease, and other
contaminants were being washed into the curb and
conveyed to our ditches and rivers through city
owned drains and discharge points for which we
are responsible. Thanks to thoughtful and
knowledgeable car wash operators like you,
pollutants can be partially removed at the car
wash and receive full treatment at our wastewater
plant before being discharge back into our
important waterways. Now due to your efforts
fund raising groups have the option to use great
facilities in a high profile area where many were
going to wash their vehicle anyway. Your efforts
have shown respect for our water resources and
have cut down on the need for enforcement
actions. Thanks again. Sincerely, David
SmithEnvironmental Compliance OfficerCity of
Delta
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School Dist 50
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Tokenote Promotion
Tiny Treasures Preschool Redeemer Lutheran
Church 1000 Pioneer Road Delta, Colorado
81416     Thanks to the generosity of Mocady Car
Wash, Tiny Treasures Preschool at Redeemer
Lutheran Church in Delta, Colorado, was able to
purchase playground equipment. Since the
preschool opened in March 2001, fundraisers are
very important to get needed equipment. We
certainly appreciate the efforts of Mocady Car
Wash in helping us achieve this goal.
Preschoolers as well as church members helped
sell carwash tokenotes, so the fundraiser was a
huge success. We plan to sell tokenotes again
since it was so effortless and very
successful.     Gods Blessings! The staff at
Tiny Treasures Preschool Sheron
Driessner Redeemer Lutheran Board of Education
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Our Charity Programs

• Fundraiser car wash held at Cruisin Clean Car
  Wash on Saturday from 1000 am to 300 pm.
• Tokenote program at Mocady Car Wash allows
  flexibility for the group. You should however
  establish a time frame for them.

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• Church groups (6,911)
• Delta Christian Church
• Redeemer Lutheran Church
• Vineyard Youth
• Young Life
• Delta United Pentecostal
• Saint Michael's Boys Club
• Assembly of God Youth
• Calvary Baptist Youth
• Pathfinders
• Gunnison Valley Church of the Nazarene
• First Baptist AWANA Club
• First Baptist Youth
• Spanish Assembly of God Youth
• Sports Teams (6,035)
• AAU Basketball
• Babe Ruth Baseball
• Calhoun Outfitters Baseball
• Delta Sweet Cleats

• School groups (14,186)
• Thunder Mountain Christian Academy
• Delta High School
• Senior Class
• Junior Class
• Sophomore Class
• Student Council
• Cheerleaders
• Dance Team
• Tech Student Association
• LEO Club
• LULAC
• Golf
• Volleyball
• Football
• Starmakers (Show Choir)
• Cedaredge High School
• Band
• Volleyball

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How Much Did They Make?
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The Rules

• No horseplay allowed.
• Signs holders are not allowed to stand in the
  median.
• Kids are not allowed to drive cars.
• Do not spray each other with wand.
• Do not suck your face or other body parts with
  vacuum.
• Pick up vacuum hose after each use.
• You will use high pressure wash and rinse only.
• Keep the hose in the bay hung up when not in use.
• Turn the rotary switch to off, if any time is
  remaining on meter.
• Bring the empty coin containers to the office for
  a refill.

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Signage

• This sandwich board sign is provided by the car
  wash and is changed for the group of the day.

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More Signage

• The groups are encouraged to make additional
  signs.

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Vacuuming

• They are issued 25 blue painted quarters.
• The line forms at the vacuums.
• Two kids, one on each side of the vehicle.

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Vacuuming

• Pass the vacuum hose back and forth to get the
  job done quicker.
• After vacuuming the car will proceed to the wash
  bay.

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I Thought You Said No Horseplay!

• The horse is named Skeets and comes twice a year
  for a bath.

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Washing

• Tokens are issued 25 at a time for washing.
• First they high pressure wash.
• The wand operator is followed by the hand
  washers.
• Then high pressure rinse.

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Drying

• Shamies were donated by local businesses.
• Donated money is received by youth.

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Tokenote Program

• Tokenotes have a 5.00 value and work in the
  automatic car wash.
• The group is issued a block of tokenotes that
  have been sequentially numbered.
• They sell them for the face value and keep 40 or
  2.00 for each one sold.
• They return any unsold tokenotes and 3.00 for
  each one sold.

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Insurance and Tax Issues

• American Family Insurance
• Jeffery Henion, CPA

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Insurance Liability

• Talk with your own insurance agent about their
  companies policies.

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Tax Issues
Jeffery Henion Public Accountant
(Enrolled to practice before the IRS)
231 Grand Ave. P O Box 1029 Paonia, CO
81428 [phone], Fax (970)
527-6191     Mocady Inc. Delta, CO 81416   Dear
Lorie, I have researched your question regarding
a deduction (as a charitable contribution) for
the value of car washes that have been donated to
local charitable organizations and have found
that they are not deductible as a charitable
contribution. The reasoning is that you can not
take a deduction for something you have in fact
never paid, have not recognized as income or
there are no actual out of pocket expenses (the
actual expense of the car wash is deducted as
part of cost of goods sold, see later
documentation).
Section 42.8. CONTRIBUTIONS OF SERVICES AND
UNREIMBURSED EXPENSES   A taxpayer is not
entitled to deduct the value of the taxpayers
time or services contributed to a charity. Reg.
Section 1.170A-1(g). Since the taxpayer does not
recognize the value of the services contributed
to a qualified charitable organization as income,
to allow a deduction under such circumstances
would provide an unwarranted benefit to the
taxpayer.
SECTION 1.170A-1. CHARITABLE, ETC., CONTRIBUTIONS
AND GIFTS ALLOWANCE OF DEDUCTION. Any costs and
expenses pertaining to the contributed property
which are incurred in the year of contribution
and would, under the method of accounting used,
be properly reflected in the cost of goods sold
for such year are to be treated as part of the
costs of goods sold for such year.
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The Dollars

• What day is the busiest?
• How much revenue will I lose?
• Dollar comparison for advertising.
• How my automatic use has increased.
• How my total sales continue to rise.

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Usage By Day
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Usage By Hour
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Comparison

• If a bay makes 1500.00 per month divide that by
  30 days your potential revenue is 50.00 for the
  day. Multiply 50.00 by 44.55 and your loss for
  the day would be 22.28 in revenue.
• Newspaper service directory - 20/wk.
• Phonebook yellow pages 47.50/mo.
• Radio ad (1 min.) - 18.80.

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Automatic Use Increases
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Total Sales
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WCA Materials Available
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Final Action

• Start holding charity car wash events and you
  will see the following benefits
• You will gain high exposure to your car wash and
  see the benefit of new customers.
• You will help the environment by conserving water
  and preventing contaminated water from polluting
  our waterways.
• You will gain free advertising.
• You will become known in your community as
  someone who cares. As your image in the community
  grows, so will your car wash sales.