GOLTH Executive Committee Minutes

Place: Gift of Life Transplant House

Date: May 13, 2013

Present: Ginger Holmes, Cheryl Lavin-Meyer, Ed Pompeian,Chuck Pagenhart, Bob Groettum, Mark Litzow,and Sarah Edgerton

  • Cheryl introduced Mitch Allen of Advanced Financial to lead a discussion of options for GOLTH employee retirement funds. Mitch would recommend a Simple IRA for our situation and number of employees, and at our current payroll that could cost GOLTH up to about $11,426. These options will be discussed with the HR and Finance committees.
  • Sarah will send an agenda for the May Board meeting including the re-election of Board members and slate of Board officers. The Annual Meeting will start at 5:30PM at the Founders House with dinner to follow.
  • Ginger spoke with Michelle Pyfferoen, a Dean at RCTC, regarding her interest in joining the Board of GOLTH. Harry Mullner with Davies Printing might be another good candidate. We need to think about adding new Board members and will discuss this issue at the Board meeting again.
  • The memorial for Helen Pompeian will be on May 22nd at the 705 House at 1PM for Staff and Board with lunch to follow the presentation.
  • Cheryl has done a sketch to plan the remodeling of the 705 House sun porch into a family room. Ron has asked CRW to do the plan, we will get bids and present this information to Chip and Michelle Mullins and ask if they would be willing to finance the remodel. We might also be eligible for Rochester Area Foundation grant money as this project makes the 705 house more accessible to families/children.
  • The Development position has been posted.
  • Corey bought the car donated to GOLTH for $6000.
  • The bake sale/silent auction organized by the nurses on Mayo 19 brought in about $4,400 to GOLTH.
  • Ed has been working on the US Bank/mortgage issue and is waiting on a return call from Jon Oviatt. There is not much hope of an improvement in the loan terms.
  • Cheryl will bring the new check signing and travel policies to the Finance committee.
  • Because of the snow storm on May 6th, the House was without computer access for about a week. The computer back-up system did not work (and had not been working since last September) but eventually the files were restored.
  • Because of the computer outage, some Development applicants might have been missed.
  • Ginger has been working with Council for Non-Profits to collect Conflict of Interest, a Whistleblower policy, and Confidentiality agreements for the Board, Staff and Volunteers to sign. She will have these documents ready for the June Board meeting.
  • Cheryl will ask at the Board meeting for a Board volunteer to chair the 30th Anniversary.

Sarah Edgerton 15 May 13