Executive Board Meeting Summary - January 3, 2007
Meeting performed via conference call.
Meeting called to order by Karl at: 9:04 pm and recorded.
Executive Board members in attendance:
Karl Ian Sagal, President
Fred Kaplan, Treasurer
Stanley Dobrowski, Secretary
Carolyn Kelford, Local group Coordinator
Will Hopper, Immediate Past President
Executive Board members absent:
Vice President – None.
Minutes from previous meeting
The minutes from the 12/13/2006 meeting were not ready to be reviewed. After they are prepared, they will be sent vie Email, reviewed and then approved via Email.
Reports
Treasurer: We received the rebate money from the Coast Hotel. This completes the finances for the SegwayFest.
Local Group Coordinator: We’ll use the address lgc@segamerica.org for Carolyn. Stan will set up the mailbox and then walk Carolyn through setting up her Outlook to fetch the mail automatically. After Carolyn gets this Email address going, then she can contact the local groups she has on her list.
Immediate Past President: Will several glides with his local group. Will took part in the Segway Chat awards process. There was a discussion about the National Park Service doing a study about Segway on the National Mall. Everyone is encouraged to provide their positive input to this process.
President: Karl is working on composing a Dec/Jan message to the members. He will be studying the by-laws to develop the schedule for the Elections Committee. Karl has a meeting planned for Friday to meet with Klee at Segway.
Karl will set up an ebay account that could be used for this auction or , at least, for selling the clothes and other stuff we have to sell from the V1 sale.
We are going to ask Segway to provide links on the Free InfoKey registration page and on the page where one can get on Segway’s newsletter Emailing list.
Karl reminded Stan that we need to get the follow-up Emails out to the members for the membership renewals.
We should work on designing and making a folding brochure and a poster for the dealers.
Topics
Discussion about a possible name change to reflect the growing international flavor of the group.
Carolyn rode her Segway as a spectator at the Rose Parade. She had a great time.
Discussion about the SegwayFest for 2007 including the changing audience an flavor of the fests, possible locations and schedules, and the roll that Segway will play there.
Adjournment
Stan made a motion, seconded by Carolyn to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 10:48 pm.
Next Meeting
Jan 17th, 2007 at 9pm eastern time.
Approved: Jan 17, 2007
