Present: Kim Meadows, PaigeKnapman; Laurie Bell, Dave Lovely,Dave Rogers and Jason Seeley

Regrets:Bjarne Nelson, and Jason Duchak

1.Adoption of the Agenda:

No Agenda

2.Review and adoption of Past Minutes:

Motioned:

Second: David R.

3. Old Business: Action list Review

-Students having trouble with registration. Dave R will report information received once again for clarity

- BCRSP Study group. No action as of yet. Kim has reached out to Lynne Cohoe for more information.

4.Chapter Chair Report: Kim Meadows

Formal report to follow . Kim is urging the Chapter Directors to focus hard on events as we are in threat of losing our status due to inactivity. We must host at least 5 events each year to earn our rebate and maintain our status, we have had only one to date. Urged to advertise sessions even if we do not get a good turnout at least we are offering the membership activities and they will see the benefit of joining an maintaining their memberships.

Motioned: Paige

Second: David L.

5 Treasury Report: Jason Duchak not present

No report given, outstanding.

5.Professional Development – Paige Knapman

Nov 3 & 4, 2015 Instructor and venue as well as Hotel room block are all booked. The course is actively being advertised by National. Several Directors are attending this course as well so we hope to make the minimum required to break event ( 9) or make some additional money..Time to start advertising the course to our membership.

Action: Paige will advertise the course on the same email as promotion of the upcoming Mid or South Island Events. Kim offered to put it our Linked In page as well as our webpage.

6.Events Planning: Dave Lovely, David Rogers

North Island:

  • Evening session at the Upper Island Conference on May 30 was very successful and will be repeated again next year. Plan to hold an event in October focused on Emergency Preparedness.

Central Island: /. to meet. As a start he is planning to hold an event on August 17 a meet and greet lunch event for members at Raymond’s Restaurant in the Greater Victoria area. He thinks it would be a good opportunity to address potential students and is inviting Kim to come and speak to them at this evetn.

Paige mentioned that experience has shown it is best to advertise an event at least 3 times – 3 weeks prior, 1 week prior and then the week of . She offered to set up the email campaign if the draft event info is sent to her.

Action – Laurie and Dave R send a write up of the planned event and Paige will advertise this to the membership through Mail Chimp and Facebook. Kim and Simon will handle Web page and Linked In.

7.Membership/Communications: Jason Seeley

Jason is offering to compile a list of membership with locations so we can target emails to specific areas. Jason reported that the membership is now sitting at 96 which includes 3 new members since he has joined. Paige wondered whether the new member emails are being added in to the mail chimp internal list? No one was aware whether this is occurring routinely. Jason offered to send them contact information to Simon to check if they were added and going forward he will make sure to send an email to Simon to ask that all new members be added to the Mail chimp list.

Action: Jason to send new member email addresses to Simon to have added to Mail Chimp

8.New Business:

No new business

9.Next meeting:

Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 3:00 pm

Via Teleconference: 1-888-875-1833

Participant code: 650664#

Meeting Adjourned: 4:03 pm

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