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AWMA Board Meeting Minutes

 

Minutes of November 11, 2008 Board Meeting, A&WMA-NFS at Holiday Inn

Present: Rich Wise, Dominic Buccilli, Bruce Wattle, Randy Rakoczynski,
Paul Van Kerkhove, Elsa Schmidt, Mike Hinton, Pat Filey, Steve Drozdowski

 

 

Topic & Discussion

Action Items

(to do list)

1

October 6 Board meeting minutes - No comments, Approved

None

2

Federal Tax Reporting - Mike Emery and Pat Martin met on 10/14 and need to gather more information and talk to the attorney.

They will meet again on 11/18

3

Electronic membership processing, meeting and seminar registrations - Mike E. received information from John H. Several options were discussed by the Board

Topic will be discussed at the next seminar meeting.

4

The idea of setting up a general NFS AWMA e-mail address was discussed again

Mike E is waiting on info from Dave C

5

Student Chapters - Elsa sent a letter (and coupon) to introduce AWMA to colleges. No response

None

6

Balance our books with the bank statement. Done

No action needed

7

Program - the upcoming schedule was discussed. The December notice will be sent on 11/21.

The November meeting notice was distributed 11/11

8

Treasury report - Checking-$13,351, CD-$8,879, Savings-$3,227. 

None

9

Membership –. Mike has a list of members that did not renew membership recently. The Board should review this list and request members that they know to rejoin. The membership specials had limited success.

Rich will send list to the Board

10

Education - Teach the Teacher program (non-point source) was successful (22 teachers). The next workshop will be held in March.

Scholarship and DEC Camp applications were updated and placed on the website.

11

Seminar - The committee will meet at Stearns & Wheler on 11/21

None

12

Envirun - The next planning meeting will be held in January

We need to spend the proceeds from the April 2008 race.

13

Newsletter – The November newsletter was completed and distributed

Send Info for the December issue should be sent to John H.

14

Chapter reports-

  -UB -No report
  -Buffalo
State - No report
  -Genesee Finger Lakes – No report

E-mails from the GFL are forwarded to NFS members

15

Website - Please send any updates to Dave Copeland

 

16

The proposed 2008-09 budget was reviewed and discussed.

The budget was approved with a small modification (fold NRG donation into Envirun figure).

No action needed

17

TSC. Paul V. attended the November meeting. Mike E requested that the Regional Director of the Empire State Development Corp speak at the joint meeting, which TSC would like AWMA to coordinate. Possible donations to BEAM were discussed- AWMA will not contribute.

None

18

A suggestion was made to scan some of the NFS records to avoid having to look through boxes of files to find info

Discuss at December Board meeting

 

Elsa has issued invitations to the Board to check out the “ning” website as a way of delivering information to our members

Look at “ning” website. Discuss at December Board meeting

19

Next Board meeting -  12/2/08 at 7 am at the Holiday Inn