GA Chapter A&WMA Board Meeting

August11, 2017

Present: Chris Hurst, Katy Lusky, Brad Goodwin, Steve Ellington, Tom Wurzinger, Joan Sasine, Cynthia Walaitis,Elizabeth Munsey, Shira Colsky

Not Present: Amy Addison,Kim Sanders

1. / CALL TO ORDER:
  • Reminder about upcoming SS annual conference
/ Cynthia Dunn
2. / SECRETARY’S REPORT:
  • Minutes issued for June and July, Chris made to motion to approve minutes, Katy seconded motion
/ Christopher Hurst
3. / TREASURER’S REPORT:
  • Payment to Shira has been re-issued for reimbursement on YP events.
  • Current Wells Fargo Balance = $13,746.25
  • Current PayPal Balance = $5,164.81
Debits:
$162.40 - MemberClicks (July)
Credit:
$200.00 - 4 Renewals / Katy Lusky
4. / COMMITTEE REPORTS:
Education/Scholarship: (2) $1500
  • First round of announcements sent out on Monday to about 80 contacts, we have received a number of inquiries.
  • Everything is following along in accordance with schedule.
  • If anyone has additional suggestions for other school contacts then please send them along.
  • Would ask that the “brown-bag” where the awards are announced then we provide additional time in the agenda for the meeting presentation.
/ Steve Ellingson
Young Professionals
  • We have a YP event planned on August 28th at 6:30 pm papermill village at a food-truck event. This will be an open networking event and will be in conjunction with the AHMP group.
  • September 14th event will be at Cocktails in the Garden and Atlanta Botanical Garden. Event will start at 6:30 pm.
/ Shira Colsky
Membership
  • I have been provided access to the national website membership account. Review the list at the start of the month and update our local database accordingly.
  • We have a current list of national members that are expired and would like to move them to basic contact. This would be done for accounts that have expiration dates of more than a year.
/ Brad Goodwin
Brown Bag Coordinator
  • September 15th is the next brown bag and the event announcement has been posted and sent out to email contact list. We will announce scholarship winners at this meeting.
  • Katy will work on means to assure that scholarship award checks will be available since she will not be able to attend meeting.
/ Kimberly Sanders
Database/Web Chair
  • If there are any news/events that need to be posted to website please send them along.
/ Chris Hurst
6. / OLD BUSINESS
  • Reminder about SS annual conference. Need to get the word out about the event due to low turn-out / registration numbers
/ Katy Lusky
7. / NEW BUSINESS
Reminder about Southern Section Annual conference
8. / NEXT MEETING: September 15; 10:30 meeting
  • Conference Call-in: 855.630.7429
  • Conference Room: 416 828 739