The Raleigh Jaycees Board Meeting 2-26-08

 

Attendance: Deidre Albert, Ed Blackman, Amanda Carleski, Jamilyn Cole, Cliff Hamilton, Stacy Hanna, Paul Hoover, Alison Houchin, Michael McKnight, Karen Sadler, John Sauter, Pat Sauter, Gwen Schott, Mona Shah, Heather Snyder, Melissa Taylor, Linnell Vaughan, Khaner Walker, Beth Worsley, Andrew Zeh

 

Call to Order

Pledge of Allegiance

 

Presentation of Initial/Final CPGs:

 

Project: Globetrotters Final CPG by project chair Lee Abernathy; Jamilyn Cole motioned to approve the CPG as written with no return appropriation. Alison Houchin seconded the motion. Discussion: Thanks for running the project and dealing with two teams and years. Motion passed.

 

Project: Mini-Turkey Shoot Initial CPG by project chair Jennifer Duke; Karen Sadler motioned to approve the CPG with a $800 appropriation from the Chapter. Pat Sauter seconded the motion. Discussion: Thanks for running the project; we are looking forward to a great event. Motion passed.

 

Project: DSA Awards Initial CPG by project chair Nephitearya (Neph) Bailey; Stacy Hanna motioned to approve the CPG with a $250 appropriation from the Chapter. Beth Worsley seconded the motion. Discussion: Great that you are doing this, hope it goes well, great presentation. Motion passed.

 

Project: Super Bowl Party Final CPG by project chair Kris Montgomery; Melissa Taylor motioned to approve the CPG as written. Friendly amended to report actual appropriation of $113.35. Pat Sauter seconded the motion. Discussion: Fantastic job running the project, thanks for taking it on. Motion passed.

 

Project: Super Bowl Pool Final CPG presented by John Sauter for project chair Peter Ansbacher; Cliff Hamilton motioned to approve the CPG with a $407 donation to the Wayne Prince Fund. Ed Blackman seconded the motion. Discussion: great way to raise money; look forward to seeing it again. Motion passed.

 

Project: Business Seminars 2007 Final CPG presented by Jamilyn Cole for project chair Peter Ansbacher. Beth Worsley motioned to approve the CPG as written with no appropriation from the Chapter. Alison Houchin seconded the motion. Discussion: Great that we had these last year and it has laid the foundation for what Shane Scott is doing with the project this year. Motion passed.

Reminders on CPGs – Remember to tell your project chairs what they are to present. We do want the CPGs out early – no later than Sunday night. Make sure we get all our new business proposals out early as well.

 

Award Nominations

 

Ways and Means area update by Melissa Taylor – PONY – welcome packet going out to the teams this week, committee still forming and still has a few spots open; Haunted House – convention proposal brought up tonight during new business; Dave Gill will be preparing his resume to run the Haunted house; Jennifer Duke is running the Mini-Turkey Shoot; Still looking for a project chair for the October Turkey Shoot – still have time

 

Membership area update by Alison Houchin – January we were even and February we are minus 5; Open house had no guests; big plans in place for the remainder of the year; Alison passed around a list of people up for renewal – if you are willing to talk to anyone on the list then please see Ali after the meeting; looking for project chairs – starting new project for networking; have guest incentives; looking for another after meeting social location; board members are doing an excellent job of introducing themselves to guests; remember our new members and encourage them to come to socials; working on next membership social; will invite everyone to a call night soon; Ed suggests to project chairs to personally invite members to projects in order to activate membership; will be vamping up project activation soon; think next month will be great – had several guests out at events

 

Individual Development area update by Jamilyn Cole – If you know of anyone that could be a director for ID then let her know; thanks to the VPs for allowing some directors to help out for the time being; some things are coming up soon – family day CPG, Religious Exploration CPG; Looking for ID college, Cooking, Car Maintenance project chairs; CPR –Laura Crumpler will be the chair and trainer; discussion on ID director leaving board

 

Business and Communications area update by Beth Worsley – Submitted application to the Raleigh Hall of Fame; should be hearing in April, copy was passed around; Working on the marketing plan, approved budget and wanted to make sure we had a complete plan before spending the money, hope to have something solid in March; Will be planning a communications committee in April; be in communication with them about publicity for projects; resource to all project chairs; welcome ideas for advertising campaign; email the one word you think of when you hear Raleigh Jaycees; We will be at the Business Expo with PONY and putting together information for that and asking certain members for help; Still looking for furniture; will be ordering the business cards; looking for project chair for the camping trip; don’t forget your board buddies; Project chair training is now going under Business and Communications; Jaycall article deadline is tomorrow – board has a special section.

Community Development area update by Cliff Hamilton – no report under the Chapter at this time.

 

State Director area update by Stacy Hanna – National Convention – Ed Blackman and Gwen Schott attending in March; DSA will be a rush to get done, any support or ideas make sure you get those to her, make sure you are turning in sign-in sheets.

 

Treasurer area update by Heather Snyder – If you have any check requests or deposits, please get them to me. Make sure that you are getting invoices to me in a timely manner so we are not late on paying them. We are in the process of updating the credit card system more information will be coming soon.

 

Secretary area update by Heather Snyder – Heather Snyder motioned to approve the December and January board meeting minutes. Ed Blackman seconded the motion. Motion passed. Mentioned agendas and asking for final version of CPGs.

 

Legal Counsel area update by Michael McKnight – no report at this time.

 

New Business:

Chapter Plan – Alison  Houchin motioned to approve the Chapter Plan as sent out earlier. Seconded by Ed Blackman. Discussion: no changes need to be made; appreciate all the work everyone put into it; encourage the VPs and directors to read over it – it’s the CPG for the Chapter; we can change things and have discussion at mid year board retreat. Motion passed

 

HauntCon Proposal – Melissa Taylor motioned to approve the proposal to send Beth Baldwin and Dave Gill to HauntCon with a $2,000 appropriation from the Chapter to be taken from the  Haunted House budget. Seconded by Alison Houchin. Discussion: They know the money will be coming out of their budget, they will try to spend thrifty. Motion approved.

 

Theatre CPG – Jamilyn Cole motioned to extend the Theatre CPG chaired by Alicia Nathison to June and give a $400 appropriation that will be returned. Seconded by Cliff Hamilton. Discussion: Wanted to be able to hold tickets and need to be able to pay; will get block of tickets based off who wants to go, will return all the money at the end; things that will appeal to other groups. Motion passed.

 

CPG Storage – why we need to make the motions with details; Ed Blackman has an idea to upload to roster the CPG and then the Roster will email the list; discussion on what the records have for CPGs; if you have ideas on ways to fix this then send emails over the board list to discuss further

 

No old business

Brief Mentions:

Bylaw changes by State need to be sent to the committee and that’s why we aren’t discussing them here tonight

St. Baldrick’s – still looking for people to shave their heads, we need to make sure we are doing these projects for a reason, tell the story of why we do it

Reminder that everyone on the board is invited to come to Paul’s house this weekend; email him to let him know if you can attend

 

Meeting adjourned with the Jaycee Creed.