3/24/09 VBPC Board Meeting
Meeting called to order at 6:40pm by President
Hallie ran down the list of upcoming speakers and special events
She has a full committee staff now, consisting of Roy Widgeon, Mike Ornoff, Dave Grochmal. Steven Kestler will be in charge of education.
Mark Huber is in charge of the "Introduction to Photography" group (for lack of a better name)
July 4th picnic is in the planning stages - we hope to have a speaker for the meeting
Focus Groups -
Due to the HUGE increase in the meeting room fees (from $20 to $50 EACH) we are planning to ask participants to invest $1 each for the facilities.
Competition Committee (Mindy)
Competition in absentia - this was discussed, a vote was taken to set it aside for further study. Mike O suggested that we allow "X" entries per year, with "X" TBD.
The Club will revisit this in the summer
Church Meeting Rooms:
Skip and Tom will meet with the church to try and negotiate a lower rate for the meeting rooms, as they went from $20 to $50.
We will be checking out the Central Library for possible meeting sites
BYLAWS:
This was a HUGE topic. Concern was expressed by attending members about the current by-laws and constitution, as they give the board pretty broad powers. Adrian provided copies of documents from another club he is a member of, and we also had a copy of the Shutterbug Club bylaws; we will be exploring this over the next few months, and attempt to come up with a more "acceptable" set of by-laws for the Club. This MUST be completed by August, so as to give the members a chance to review it, comment on it in September and October, in time for the November elections.
MEMBER DIRECTORY:
Another HUGE topic. Some members want to have access to each others emails, because not everyone responds to private emails in the forum. It was pointed out that most of the members online have their emails published on the website under their profile info. This is another issue we want to bring to the membership at large, for further input.
TREASURER'S REPORT:
Some members had expressed concern that this was not in the newsletter, and we had not been announcing it at the meetings. Regarding the publishing of the info in the newsletter, we decided a year or so ago to NOT do so, since the newsletter was publically accessible; that we would announce the info at the meetings, and/or make it available to anyone who asks. I explained that, regarding it NOT being announced in recent months, I had forgotten it due to time constraints at the meetings. The books are open and available to ANY paid member.
ATTENDING MEMBERS:
Skip Morrow
Tom McElvy
Halie Hovenga
Slip Shepard
Mark Huber
Alan Rabe
Mike Ornoff
Scott MacKay
Eric Fadden
Mindy Bockrath
Belinda Traber
Joan Grippo
Adrian Felton
Bobby Thompson
The meeting ended at approximately 8:45pm