Board meeting Minutes/25-26 Aug 2012

Prior: 25 Aug 2012

Board meeting Minutes

Next: 10 Sep 2012

Minutes approved: 8 Oct 2012

Present

Philip Kizer (chair), William Bilancio, Matt Disney, Martin Gehrke, Ski Kacoroski, Evan Pettrey, Dan Rich, Jesse Trucks, John Boris

Opened

August 25, 10:44 Eastern Time

Closed

August 26, 11:34 Eastern Time

New Board Presentation

• Overview of nonprofit sector
• History of LOPSA
• Current state of LOPSA
• Overview of LOPSA ByLaws, Policies, and organizational structure
• Parliamentary procedure overview
• Outline of Officer selection process
• Description of Board of Directors meeting format and procedures

Overview of Programs, Committees, and other major LOPSA areas of concern for the Board

• Financial Report
• Membership
• Technical Report
• Technical Services Committee
• Mentorship Program
• Development
• Communication

Officer Selection

• President: Philip Kizer
• Vice Presidnet: Dan Rich
• Treasurer: Evan Pettrey
• Secretary: Jesse Trucks

Committee Selection

• Communication - Chris (Ski) Kacoroski
• Membership - Dan Rich / Martin Gehrke
• Finance – Evan Pettrey / Dan Rich / Matt Disney
• Awards - will return to later
• Conference – will return to later
• Locals – Martin Gehrke / Jesse Trucks/ Matt Disney
• Technical Service – Jesse Trucks / William Bilancio
• Content Services - Chris (Ski) Kacoroski
• Educators - Chris (Ski) Kacoroski

Action Item Review

• Review open board related tickets and assign appropriately

Discussion on the role of the LC (Dan)

• What do we think the LC should be doing?
• LC Chair selection

Executive Session

Entered executive session: 4:28 pm

Exited executive session: 4:55 pm

MOTION: Moved that we select David Parter as the new chair of the Leadership Committee - Passed unopposed

Projects (Kizer)

• Current Projects discussed
• Suggested Projects discussed
• Jesse Trucks selected as Project Manager for LOPSA
• New project champions chosen
• Discuss Project Manager to publish monthly progress reports

Conference anti-harassment policy (bilancio)

• One of the examples to help start ours: http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/conference-policies/
• Review/revise 6 months after adoption

Board minutes (ski)

• What do people want to see in them
• Ok to put in some financial data

New Tagline (ski)

• No new tagline adopted pending further research and marketing planning

Alternate Income Ideas (Dan)

• Amazon
• Google
• Thinkgeek

Adjournment

Motion to adjourn on August 26 at 11:34 by Ski, seconded by William.