Kalamazoo Chapter Meeting Minutes – August 16, 2005
Mark Woodin
Don Beebe
Karyn Walker
Terrie Hazekamp
Dana Collins
Brenda Lauer
JoAnne Ilecki
Penny Weller
Robin Schanz
Megan Sedlak
Minutes were accepted. No changes.
Treasurers report – Mark had a couple of bills all paid. He sent out $300 to Apollo at St Julian to reserve for meeting.
? gave to Dana to mail in normally November.
Same budget as last month.
For wine tour – need to limit number of wine glasses given out. Need to only get them to get sample glasses. Possibly not give Dave Braganini a gift. Possibly charge $35 for dinner. Decided to do $30 for wine tasting since regular dinners are 25 now.
There is a copy of the bank statement and reconciliation attached to the treasurers report.
Karyn will still check on postcard prices.
Didn’t use postage and newsletter for July. Will use postage for August to mail out Golf outing. Newsletters will start in September. Will be 207 flyers for golf outing and the Grand Rapids chapter sends out all their stuff by email so Karyn sent them an email.
We will give perfect attendance awards at September meeting. For perfect attendance winners their meals will be paid for in September as a reward for perfect attendance.
Dana will call National to find out why we didn’t get a grant from National. They have been mailed out and the thought is that they didn’t even get 10 requests so why did we not get one?
Budget is approved with change to postage and newsletter in July and $30 change to dinner for plant tour also change perfect attendance award to zero and put 5 people free for dinners for September.
Mark will right up paper work for Karyn’s trip to Nationals to reimburse Bowers.
The only bills will be the pizza for tonight $41, and postage $47 for the golf outing. It was approved.
Robin – Web – She would like Penny to send the schedule to her to post. She would also like Karyn to check the specifics on the golf outing to make sure it is all correct. Robin would really like to see the employment services enhanced. She is looking for suggestions on how to improve this portion of the website. She will begin posting resumes and would like it noted in the newsletter for September. Brenda suggest putting a disclaimer on the website saying we can not validate information on the resumes that it is just a resource for perspective employers to look at. Dana suggested looking in the phone book and calling all the employment services in the phone book to say we would like to post their jobs or put a link to their website for a fee. Robin has asked to be “cut loose” to run with the project. It was agreed by the rest of the board.
Roster – waiting to here if it needs to be printed. We don’t want to lose track of some of the history that is in the roster if we just put on the web. We need to keep track of past presidents – Robin will put on the website. At Christmas time give out a ruler or a magnet. Consensus would be that we will still do the roster if we can get the advertising. Karyn handed out a sheet that explains costs and benefits. If you get the advertising especially for the inside covers make sure to communicate to everyone as there is only one of each. So far we haven’t gotten anyone to bite at the advertising on the web or at sponsoring a meeting. Everyone will take a stab at selling a page of advertising. We will have 3 weeks to see how much advertising we can get to see if we can do the roster. The one thing that Don missed this year was the list by company. Karyn had to look them out one by one to get the company information.
The next meeting September 13, 2005 at 7 am at Perkins. Mark will call to check to see if he can reserve the room for the meeting.
Mark will call Damon’s to set up the meeting for September.
Penny – Terry has been a great help. Everyone has been confirmed except the IRS. Penny sent out a blanket email to everyone who had an email in the roster. Robin just gave Penny one more name as we are short one hour on the ethics, so hopefully that will pan out. Afternoon session – will be 2-5 and then will hang around for the dinner. Dinner will start at 5:30 that night. Fifth Third will need to come at 5:30 if they want dinner and will start speaking at 6:45 that night. Bill Parfet is very excited about speaking. Carol Roy volunteered the Biggs-Gilmore facility. It is a great facility, and they will put on an ice cream social for us in the afternoon. It is downtown Kalamazoo. Great parking in the back. It is a smaller facility so we need to watch the size of that meeting. Penny has been asking for Bios and Pictures to put in a roster or on the website. Dana recommended John Halick to possibly fill a spot as he is back in the area. The professor that spoke last year at the all day seminar said he would be happy to speak again, Sime Curkovic. Penny said she will be the back up speaker if anyone cancels.
JoAnne is all set to send out and PR items now that she has gotten the roster.
Don has gotten an email from and Edith Biel stating that she would like to join the board. She was a student member last year. Don will contact her.
Karyns report –see above for roster and advertising information. Golf outing stuff is going out this week. Employment services mention will go into the newsletter. Karyn will put a perfect attendance announcement in Septembers newsletter for the 5 individuals that had perfect attendance last year. (Don, Dana, Sherry, Donna, Harve)
Dana - Michigan Council meeting is September 8th. Penny, Don, and Dana will be attending. Please let Dana know if anyone else would like to go. October 27th is an all day seminar sponsored by the Michigan Council. Robin will link to the flyer on the Michigan Council website. Karyn will put the flyer in the September newsletter. Dana will follow up on the grants. Dana has some educational items to get in based on the FMN tapes. He will get them in by the 20th to count in August.