The Raleigh Jaycees Board Meeting Minutes 10/28/08

Attendance: Ed Blackman, Amanda Carleski, Jamilyn Cole, Linnell Compton, Cliff Hamilton, Stacy Hanna, Paul Hoover, Alison Houchin, Karen Ray, Karen Sadler, John Sauter, Mona Shah, Heather Snyder, Melissa Taylor, Khaner Walker, Beth Worsley, Jeff Zabawa, Andrew Zeh

Call to Order – Paul Hoover                                                                                                                                 Pledge of Allegiance

Presentation of Initial/Final CPGs:

Project: Wine and Tapas Tasting Final CPG by Jennifer James; Karen Ray motioned to approve the CPG as written with and actual appropriation of $102.26. Andy Zeh seconded the motion. Discussion: thanks for running this; people had fun; great job; motion passed.

Project: Membership Socials for 3rd Trimester by Erin Duddy; Mona Shah motioned to approve the CPG as written with a $200 appropriation from the Chapter. Alison Houchin seconded the motion. Discussion: looking forward to this project and other ideas, motion passed.

Finance Committee Update – Charles West and Ed Blackman -  3 big pieces that we have been working on; risk  management spreadsheet; this will be added to the level 3 CPGs; will be able to come back to the board with emergency back-up amount; budget process changes – have challenges with when we do fundraising; difficult to project 8 months out and have been conservative; talked to several members and past presidents; make 6 month budget and then 12 month moving from July to June; have whole board deciding on budget instead of just VPs and President; investing in long term financing and will be difficult in finding out where we want to go; looking at insurance and taking them further; we will need input from you here; will need 2 people on the committee; what is the level of work that will add to level 3 project chairs; look at it for being more involvement for newer board members; want to know more about where it came for this decision for changing budget; why not have budget amount from previous year; requested that we show how we are tracking the budget expenses (Jan has prior year expenses); thanks for all your work and we will be seeing more about this on the board list.

Award nominations for the month were held.

Ways and Means Area update – just wrapped up the Turkey Shoot; will hopefully have a clean-up and move to storage on Sunday; Haunted house is still running – please be there if you can; encourage other members to attend for a little while; still looking for a location for the blackout party; had offer of a location; will have more info coming out soon; blackout party is for the Jaycees; the Turkey shoot has lots of turkeys leftover and need to make room for freezers; discussion on the invitation of the NCSU students to the blackout party

Membership Area update – have project chair for socials; have project chair for rooster event; don’t have the numbers to date, have a few members that are up for renewals – went through the list; thanks for coming out to the call night; is there anything we can do for the remainder of the year; Karen suggested the way we act at projects should be professional; membership advertising; questions on reasons why people didn’t join, any ideas – please email the membership team.

Individual Development area update – have four projects coming up; support our projects, fitness CPG will come up soon

Business and Communications area update – working on the holiday banquet – working on getting a date; new check requests  have come in and please write on ways and means; having hard time getting dates for banquet; website scheduling conflicts with Ed and Beth  - working on it; several other items working on getting wrapped up; questions were raised on the budget; Mel thanked Beth and Khaner for the Haunted house marketing.

Community Development – no report

State Director – we are still Division 7 on the state level; regional meeting coming up  and will include writing thank you notes to the soldiers; will have results sent out tomorrow from the survey

Treasurer area update – get any check requests into me; budget report was sent out, let me know if you have questions

Secretary area update – will have minutes by the next meeting. Make sure to send in your agenda topics.

New Business –

Bus Bench contract – Ed Blackman motioned to approve the contract for the bus benches and to have Paul Hoover act as our contact with the Town Council. Motioned seconded by Stacy Hanna. Discussion: will be sitting with council members so wanted to be able to answer for the Chapter, motion passed.

JC Events – Ed Blackman motioned Resolved, that the following are officially sanctioned events of the Raleigh Jaycees, even in the absence of an approved CPG:

- Meetings of the general membership (GMMs),

- Meetings of the Board of Directors for the purpose of conducting business, training, or socializing,

- Meetings of the Presidents Council,

- Meetings of committees appointed by the President,

- Meetings of members and guests interested in participating in a project when lead by a member who has been approved as the project chair of that project,

- Attendance of district, regional, state, national, and international Jaycee events

; Stacy Hanna seconded the motion. Discussion: this is to address concern with insurance with sanctioned events for items that are not required to have CPG; have on record; did leave out a few things on the list; going on your own with member of the Chapter; taking action to fix this; motion passed.

Commend the entire board for everything that you have done this month.

Meeting adjourned with JC Creed.