Brochures
Stuart Schindler attended the board meeting to discuss the costs incurred when producing brochures.  He provided board members with historical pricing and explained all changes for accurate comparison.  Dave Lathrop will talk to Lin Schmelzer about her roll in making future, minor edits to the brochure.

Board Meetings
We will have two full, quarterly board meetings and monthly 1/2-hour meetings on Friday mornings after the regular meeting.

Marketing
The board discussed an email sent by Nick Mawrenko.  He recommended promoting MABE using social networking as discussed at recent meetings.  Further discussion will be needed to decide which networks to join, how to administer them and if it will include all member or only those wishing to pay extra to cover the maintenance fees.

Meeting Location
The price at Skip & Jan's continues to increase.  The price started at $6 and increased to $8 to cover juice.  They are now requesting an additional amount be added for gratuity, bringing the total per person to $8.65. 

Dave Lathrop has checked into the Mesa Country Club as a possible meeting place.

Membership Criteria
Steve Chilton feels we need to evaluate our membership criteria.  Should we make it easier to become a member or continue to be selective?  We need to think about what type of people we want in the group.

Attendance & Mentoring
Are we going to enforce attendance or not?  Are we going to enforce promptness?  Dave Crissman believes that if we can improve the quality of meetings then better attendance will follow.  If members are not participating than it is a lose-lose situation for the member and MABE.  The board agreed to create a mentoring list.  Each board member would be responsible for encouraging their assigned member to participate.

Financial Discussion
The board reviewed past due accounts.  Melissa will print statements for Dave Lathrop so he can address it with the individual members.  She will also send Dave current budget numbers so he can make budget projections.  Depending on the projections, we may have a MABE sponsored spring event.