The Raleigh Jaycees Board Meeting 3-25-08

 

Attendance: Deidre Albert, Ed Blackman, Amanda Carleski, Jamilyn Cole, Cliff Hamilton, Stacy Hanna, Paul Hoover, Alison Houchin, Karen Ray, John Sauter, Pat Sauter, Gwen Schott, Mona Shah, Heather Snyder, Khaner Walker, Jeff Zabawa, Andy Zeh

 

Call to Order – Paul Hoover

Pledge of Allegiance

 

Presentation of Initial/Final CPGs:

 

Project: Open House Initial CPG presented by Khaner Walker for project chair Susan Brosnan; Ali Houchin motioned to approve the CPG with a $125 appropriation. Amanda Carleski seconded the motion. Discussion: She is a great person for the project, we are glad to have her. Motion passed.

 

Project: CPR and First Aid Training presented by Jamilyn Cole for project chair Laura Crumpler. Jamilyn Cole motioned to approve the CPG with a $400 appropriation. Ali Houchin seconded the motion. Discussion: hope to have more people sign up, great offer for the discounted rate, numbers in the budget don’t add up so wanted to make sure the appropriation shows the $400 and $20 per person. Motion passed.

 

Jamilyn Cole motioned to allow Karen Ray to become the ID director. Ed Blackman seconded the motion. Discussion: Great opportunity, worked with her on several projects and glad to have her, motion passed. Paul gave Karen the oath of office.

 

Award Nominations

 

Ways and Means area update by Paul Hoover for Melissa Taylor – Melissa could not be here; Resume coming soon for David Gill; PONY is going great already sold tickets, working with Cary Chamber.

 

Membership area update by Alison Houchin - big month for April – 12 renews; other issues getting resolved; listed being passed around; Khaner will be traveling with his new job; we will need help at the GMMs; have ongoing projects and looking for project chairs; recommend guests to go to projects; sign in sheets with guests – give info to Ali; marketing plan is working on and should be out soon; working on numbers with State; will have a call night soon; We have 9 people aging out this year and we are working on ideas for these members – send ideas to Paul – some ideas – large project chair type mug, pin

 

Individual Development area update by Jamilyn Cole - going well; will be going even better now that Karen has joined the board; still working on projects on-going; talk up the Theatre club; have someone interested in car maintenance; family day to Carowinds; have some other ideas going; great trainers lined up for ID college; Karen is excited to be on the board

 

Business and Communications area update by Deidre Albert - camping trip chair – Korey stepped up; trips need more time to promote them; business cards that were ordered – should be at next GMM; April 15 for website launch; reminder of project chairs wrapping up at GMMs so we can bring mugs

 

Community Development no update

 

State Director area update by Stacy Hanna - need sign in sheets; update to VPs for plans from chapter plan; will be doing awards April 15th; National convention was fun – come to 2nd GMM in April to find out how we did; went to trainings and have some ideas; DSA wrapping up – 4 categories; planning breakfast type event to give out awards; go out and actively search for the awards; great PR tool in the past

 

Treasurer area update by Heather Snyder – if you have any deposits or checks, please get them to me tonight.

 

Secretary area update by Heather Snyder – Heather motioned to approve the board meeting minutes. Ali Houchin seconded. No discussion. Motion passed.

 

Legal area update – no report at this time if you need anything let him know.

 

New Business –

            Matchmaking and Networking by Deidre Albert - discussion on board list – this idea – are we interested in doing this; complexity in making this happen; this would be up after the new website launch; reach out to project chairs; send out the survey or we ask them to go to the roster; what the have and what they want to gain; Deidre would put a lot of effort into making this happen; is this something that would be easy to put up; fixed forms not too hard and could use some of the other surveys; built in function or one time – opt in and fill out to catch up and when you go in you can edit interests; gage benefit to cost; what about the interests – look at that as a field; concern is more of if people are going to do it; another tool to take advantage of it; consider this part of the bus and com team and can go forward with this idea; suggest an email go to board members; request to make sure we don’t lose the personal contact with our members; ask that the bus and com team bring it up to the board before; automate the info based on interests; future discussion take to the email list

 

No old business.

 

Adjourn with Jaycee Creed