Executive Board Meeting Summary - Sept 6, 2006
Executive Board Meeting Summary - Sept 6, 2006
Meeting performed via conference call.
Meeting called to order at: 9:11 pm and recorded.
Executive Board members in attendance:
Karl Ian Sagal, President
Jonathan Gleich, Vice President
Fred Kaplan, Treasurer
Stanley Dobrowski, Secretary
Executive Board member(s) absent:
Local Group Coordinator – None.
Guest(s):
Will Hopper
Minutes from previous meeting(s)
Minutes from 8/16/2006 meeting: Discussion about minutes. No changes were suggested. Motion to accept by Karl with 2nd by Fred. Motion passed.
Motion by Karl to post all previous Executive Summaries on web site. 2nd by Fred. Motion passed.
Review and discussion of minutes from 7/19/2006 taken by Karl. Motion by Karl to post entire minutes as Executive Summary on web site. 2nd by Jonathan. Motion passed.
Urgent Business
Motion by Karl to appoint Will Hopper as Immediate Past President. 2nd by Fred. Motion passed.
Officers’ Reports
Vice President: No issues to report. Jonathan will remain active on TheInfoKey as a parodist but will not be involved with editorial issues.
Secretary: Stan will post Executive Summaries on the web site. Joanne Krogman (past Secretary) will send all electronic documents in her files to Stan. Joanne already gave the SEG America charge card and all of the marketing postcards and bank statements to Stan.
Treasurer: Report of the total of all monies in checking account and PayPal accounts and what has been collected for SegwayFest, including part of the money from Segway, Inc.
Local Group Coordinator: Will reported that the DCSEG parade was a success. We are to remind Alex Ko (previous LGC) to forward the contact list we was working on for the local SEG organizers. We are to ask Alex if the Woz Cup will be available at the SegwayFest.
Immediate Past President: Will spoke with the Council of Governments asking them to consider Segways.
President: Karl asked all Exec Bd members to submit suggestions and information for the Procedures Manual. Fred presented a generic form for a Conflict of Interest form that was customized for SEG America by Karl. All Exec Bd members are to print out a copy of the form, sign it and then fax it to the SEG America fax line so that the signatures can be kept on file by the Secretary. As Karl goes through the backlog of Email in the President’s Email box, he will forward them to Fred or Stan as appropriate.
Fest Committee: Vendors will have tables in foyer area on Saturday. The Coast Hotel will set aside a room to receive Segways shipped to the hotel for SegwayFest on Wednesday and Thursday. Then Segway, Inc gets the room starting on Friday for their stuff. Fred visited the Queen Mary and the Coast Hotel. We’ll be using the larger room for the Friday Reception. There may be a Friday evening gliding tour of Long Beach after cocktails. Fred is still working on the Saturday speaker/seminar schedule. There will be seating for up to 250 people.
• Doug Field talk about the i2
• Valence Technology about the Saphion batteries
• Legislative affairs
• Jim Norrod on Segway corporate vision
• Engineers Roundtable with the Product Development team
• Agility comparison Gen 1 vs Gen 2 at the park
• Mid morning coffee break
• Lunch (sandwiches) at Cesar Chaves park. People will glide to the park. Segway Polo demonstration. Be at park for about 1.5 hours and then glide back to Coast Hotel.
• Americans with Disabilities
• Maintenance of the Segway
• Descriptions and development of accessories
• Software upgrades for Gen 1 to v 14.1 by first-come-first servers signup list.
The marathon race will be taking place on Sunday and therefore no cars will be able to cross the street between the hours of 7am and 9am. DRAFT will be holding it’s fund raising dinner on Thursday. Sunday will be a day in the park at Will Rogers Park about 40 minutes away from the hotel. There can be a Segway Polo game on the official polo field and glides on the off-road trails.
There was a discussion about trinkets for the attendees as well as other merchandise and apparel. Karl made a motion with a 2nd from Stan to reimburse Will $80 for the fees he paid to have the Long Beach fest logo digitized. The motion passed.
There was a discussion about the membership cards format and method of lamination. A new card will be issued each year after the renewal. We’ll see if we can create a “return if found” key fob card.
Meeting adjourned at 11:19 pm.
Approved 9/20/2006
