Executive Board Meeting Summary - January 17, 2007
Meeting performed via conference call.
Meeting called to order by Karl at: 9:08 pm and recorded.
Executive Board members in attendance:
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Karl Ian Sagal, President
Fred Kaplan, Treasurer
Stanley Dobrowski, Secretary
Carolyn Kelford, Local group Coordinator
Will Hopper, Immediate Past President
Executive Board members absent:
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Vice President – None.
Minutes from previous meeting
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Minutes from the Jan 3, 2007 and Dec 13, 2006 meetings were reviewed. No changes were suggested. Motion to accept by Karl with 2nd by Carolyn. Motion passed unanimously.
Topics
- Stan is looking into additional features of the Kmailer bulk mailing program for Email reception statistics, click-throughs, etc. Karl pointed out that the Emails to remind members of renewals must be sent out ASAP.
- Discussion about general enthusiasm level of members for the club and recruitment ideas.
- Will reports that the DCSEG group had a successful New Year’s Glide and that the group is still as active as it was last year.
- Carolyn talked about SegwayPolo activities in her southern California area. These have been organized on an adhoc basis by SEGOC and SEGLA mostly through announcements on SegwayChat.
- Discussion about legislative issues going on right now, SEG America’s level of involvement and what the club can and cannot do in these cases.
- Stan reported that he is working on the documents that will feed the mail merge to print the cards and the key tags. All supplies (cards and printer ribbons) are in.
- Discussion about Karl’s Dec/Jan President’s message.
- Discussion about the meeting that Stan and Karl had with Klee at Segway, Inc. Karl will send us a draft of the next President’s message for review.
- Karl has worked out the preliminary schedule for the elections process. Once it is finalized, it should be posted on the web site. Karl made the motion, seconded by Stan to approve the schedule tentatively. Motion passed unanimously.
- Discussion about the recent request we received from Segway to help with a PR event in Chicago.
- Further discussion about the meeting with Klee at Segway.
- Discussion about further growth of the club, particularly internationally.
- Discussion about SegwayFest 2007 locations and options.
Adjournment
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Stan made a motion, seconded by Fred to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously. The meeting was adjourned at 11:03 pm.
Next Meeting
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January 31, 2007 at 9 pm eastern time.
Approved: Feb 26, 2007
