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March 5, 2004
Dave Lathrop turned over various items to incoming
president, Roman Okonowski. Dave to provide board members with a copy of
the “What is Mabe” summary form to discuss how it might be used for new
and prospective members.
Dave agreed to moderate “question of the day” topics
for the current board term.
Bill Lalonde will provide a new buddy lunch list to
be in place by April 1.
Bill will set up a schedule for greeters for the
weekly meetings, two greeters per week.
Bill will chair a committee for mentoring new
members. At the 03/12 meeting we will ask for two other members to
participate on the committee and the sponsoring member will automatically
be a committee member, relative to the member they sponsored.
Lisa Schnaidt provided a current financial report and
update on delinquencies. Roman Okonowski will send a letter to Brad Evans
advising his membership will be terminated effective 04/01/2004 due to
non-payment of dues and lack of attendance at meetings. Lisa contacted
Scott Kimball at Facilitec about past due dues, Scott advised he will see
that it gets paid. Scott’s job duties at Facilitec will be changing and
he is not sure who will represent the company. We need to be sure the new
representative meets Mabe membership requirements.
Greg Stewart will present a report, at the regular
meeting on 03/26, detailing procedures for handling of new member
prospects, including timing of proposal and handling of an objection from
a current member. Greg will clarify that Mabe has no current member
promotions. Greg will research the timeline for the previous promotion
and follow to be sure members were provided awards as specified.
Wayne Unruh has speaker schedule under control and
has been very pleased with the member handling of speaking
responsibilities. Next open meeting scheduled for 04/16.
Althea Bussert has put together information for
several possible activities. A sign-up sheet will be available at the
03/12 meeting, for a hike to Usery Park in late March or early April.
Also, will have a sign-up sheet for Carol Steele casitas for a June
activity. We will attempt to recruit 2-3 volunteers to serve on a social
committee with Althea.
Meeting agenda will not be changed at this time. We
will limit board reports to items of consequence.
Through the current board term we will put together a
plan for transition of responsibility to future boards. It is important
that incoming board members are willing to serve in officer positions,
including president.
Board members agreed that a committee should be
formed to investigate the facility for our regular meetings. Roman has
asked Don Ellis to chair the committee, and Don has accepted that
responsibility. We will attempt to recruit a couple additional
volunteers for that committee at the next regular meeting.
Roman will contact Dave Spiess and determine if he is
willing to give a brief talk on leads at a future regular meeting.
We will discuss printing of brochures at the next
board meeting.
Roman will contact Mike Whalen and Stu Schindler to
obtain ideas and costs for member name badges.
We will recruit 2-3 volunteers to serve on a
committee to handle resolution of objections to prospective new members,
by current membership. The intent is that a proposing member will
announce prospective member name and category at a regular meeting and
current members will have one week to comment. If no comment is received
within that week, the prospective membership application may be
submitted. If an objection is received within that week, the resolution
committee will meet with the proposing member and the objecting member to
discuss the concern. If the concern cannot be resolved the member
objection will stand and the application process for the proposed member
will be terminated.
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