Executive Board Meeting Summary - October 25, 2006
Meeting performed via conference call.
Meeting called to order by Karl at: 9:04 pm and recorded.
Attendance
Executive Board members in attendance:
Karl Ian Sagal, President
Jonathan Gleich, Vice President
Fred Kaplan, Treasurer
Stanley Dobrowski, Secretary
Will Hopper, Immediate Past President
Guests:
Carolyn Kelford
Executive Board members absent:
None
Minutes from previous meetings
Minutes from the 9/20/2006 meeting were discussed. No changes were suggested to the minutes. It was decided that nothing from the minutes would be excluded from the Executive Summary. Motion to accept by Fred with 2nd by Karl. Motion passed unanimously.
Minutes from the 10/4/2006 meeting were discussed. Karl made a motion, 2nd by Fred, to approve the minutes. Motion passed unanimously.
Topics
Jonathan asked to be first on the agenda. He read a prepared statement in which he resigned his Vice President position. There was a short discussion, the board accepted his resignation and Jonathan left the meeting.
Secretary report: The rotating random picture on the top of our home page has been implemented. Stan has chosen a calendar application to add to the web site as well as a zip code based member locater application. These will be purchased and tested on another web site or away from the main site. There was a discussion about what information the locator should report on and how the blind Email process will work. The locator should only show Advanced (Individual) members in its results.
There was a discussion about posting an article on the web site giving the membership statistics.
Discussion about sending out postcards via regular mail using the mailing labels that Segway gave us last year.
Discussion about the picture gallery application for the web site. This needs to be up and running soon. Stan expressed second thoughts about using Coppermine.
Treasurer report: Fred discussed the SegwayFest accounting. It ended up costing us some money, but not too much and certainly a very acceptable amount. There are still some bills for the Fest that have not come in yet, but nothing too large.
There was a discussion about how to sell the left over merchandise from the Fest. An e-commerce section should be set up on our web site to sell this stuff.
Discussion about the quality of the accommodations and activities at the SegwayFest.
Discussion about Linda Brennan’s letter and questions about future fests and about sending a mailing to the attendees as a follow-up to the fest.
Discussion about more (smaller) glides at Fest on Saturday afternoon and then the one big one on Sunday. We talked about how to better schedule the seminars to attract the most people. Discussion about how the rentals were handled.
Discussion about possible times and locations for the next SegwayFest.
Discussion about problems large and small that occurred at the fest.
Discussion about getting SEG America brochures to the dealers to display and hand out. Karl to ask Alex for everything he has on the LGC contact list.
Discussion about what the LGC job is and how Carolyn would be a very good person to fill this position. Karl made a motion, 2nd by Fred, to appoint Carolyn as the Local Group Coordinator. The motion passed unanimously. Carolyn accepted the appointment.
Adjournment
Fred made a motion, 2nd by Stan, to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 11:27 pm.
Next Meeting
November 8, 2006 at 9pm eastern.
Approved: 11/29/2006
