Executive Board Meeting Summary - November 29, 2006
Meeting performed via conference call.
Meeting called to order by Karl at: 9:06 pm and recorded.
Executive Board members in attendance:
Karl Ian Sagal, President
Fred Kaplan, Treasurer
Stanley Dobrowski, Secretary
Will Hopper, Immediate Past President
Executive Board members absent:
Vice President – None.
Minutes from previous meeting
Minutes from 10/25/2006 meeting: Discussion about minutes. No changes were suggested. Motion to accept by Karl with 2nd by Stan. Motion passed unanimously.
Topics
Discussion about potential Vice president candidates. Karl will contact the people to see if any of them are interested.
Secretary’s Report: Stan is working to update database and screens and pages to accommodate the renewals process. Discussion about new membership cards and a printer. Stan will see if he can make up a couple samples of the new plastic cards and mail them to the board members. Stan was asked to present a proposal with costs to the board. Discussion about creating a 11×17” poster advertising for SEG America that could be given to dealers for them to hang in their showrooms. Discussion about postcards that we could create and send out in the mail with the labels that Segway gave us last year. Discussion about Business memberships and the screen in our web site for them to join. Stan will do the database changes and create the screen for this that will be similar to the Individual membership screen.
Local Group Coordinator’s report: Carolyn got the information about the local group organizers from Alex. Stan will set up a mailbox in the segamerica.com domain for her LGC activities and then give her the configuration so she can use Outlook to get this mail.
Treasurer’s report: A couple more bills from Long Beach fest have come in. We are still waiting for the rebate money to come from the Coast Hotel.
President’s report: The November message announcing renewals will go out to the club on 11/30. Karl has received some money from the sale of shirts. Discussion about setting up an ebay account for selling the shifts & hats. We decided to not do that now. Best would be to set up a simple page on our web site to sell the goods, take orders via Email and accept money via PayPal.
Discussion about possible fest locations and one volunteer that offered to help organize the next one. But this location is way too close to where the Long Beach fest was.
Discussion about moving our web hosting off of the Segway servers. We need to do this as soon as we can.
Discussion about Business memberships. Cost would be $100 for one year. Our web site would have a links page highlighting the Business members. Business members would show up on the members locater.
Discussion about the upcoming DRAFT event in Washington, DC.
The December President’s message will go out in mid December.
Discussion about the style of future SegwayFests and the role Segway corporate will play at these fests.
Adjournment
Fred made a motion, seconded by Stan to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 10:04 pm.
Next Meeting
December 13, 2006 at 9pm eastern time.
Approved: 12/13/2006
