Board Member’s Reports

Board Meeting Minutes - September ’09

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:00:11 -0700

The Board meeting for Northwest Applepickers was called to order by President Erick Camp at 7PM at his home. Present were Erick, Bob Moffat, Eldon Elstep, and Peter Winderling and Alice Brynestad.

Secretary's Minutes accepted. Treasurer's report reported a balance on hand of $326.12, which included $12.00 in the Red Chip fund. This report was accepted. Membership stands at 71 members with two renewals. 19 were present at the New Users meeting. There was no General Meeting in August.

New Business: Our next few meetings will be as follows:

October 1 New Users at Lakewood ; October 11 General meeting at Lakewood.

November 5th New Users at SUMMIT Library; October 11 General meeting at Lakewood Library.

December 3rd New Users at Lakewood Library, and December 6th CHRISTMAS PARTY will be at Lakewood Library from 2 - 5pm.

Stewart Beels unable to conduct meeting in October and November due to bypass surgery.

It was Moved, seconded and passed that we purchase Snow Leopard for the club. Order from Amazon.com.

There will be a section in the Standing Rules regarding house calls by members to our club members and to non-members. A report will be forthcoming in the near future.

Old Business: Eldon, Bob and Erick will be purchasing the Christmas party gifts for our December 6th Christmas party. $200.00 gift budget. They will shop on November 20th.

Advertising: Cost to advertisee will be $5.00 per issue, and will be subject to editorial review.

Meeting adjoined at 8:29PM.

Alice Brynestad, Secretary

Board Meeting Minutes - August ’09

Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:46:07 -0700

The meeting was called to order by President Erick Camp at 7pm at his home. Present were Erick, Stewart Beels, Bob Moffat, Alice Brynestad, Eldon Estep, and Peter Winderling.

Minutes, Membership (71 active members reported), and Treasurers Report were accepted. We have $227.30 in checking and $426.62 in Savings and $5.50 in the Red Chip fund.

Old Business:

More information is needed about our possible participation at the Puyallup Fair, so no decision was made.

Equipment List will be incorporated into the Quicken program by Bob and Eldon.
Number of Board members was discussed as to how to reduce this number.
There will be four main positions on the Board, and the question was raised as to whether this would provide a quorum on board.

The meeting notices would be changed in the By-Laws -- Sentence C would revert to sentence A and sentence D would become sentence C.

Also in the By-laws, Article 4, section 1 would require 15 days notice prior to a meeting.

Article 5 section 1 refers to officers. There would be five officers and up to three directors making up the NWAP Board. This will be voted on at the October General meeting.

Use of membership e-mail was set up by Erick.

Introduction to NWAP

List of recent meetings -- up to one month of previous meetings as well as future activities.

Contacts will be in the database.

New Business:

NWAP portal -- Entrance to our system will mean putting number of members at the top.

Noting the attendance at the Mortvedt meetings was discussed. It would be a possible source for potential new members.

Peter Winderling requested extra copies of our newsletters to be distributed to the Apple Store, and also have newsletters available to hand out to new people at our meetings.

There are 112 copies of the newsletters that are sent out to our distribution list, and also back copies are in the NWAP box.

Peter will keep picnic supplies for now.

Peter will print sign-in sheets and also membership applications so that they are always available at our meetings.

It was noted that there are sometimes questions about the Mac on Craigslist. No action was taken to provide answers to these Craigslist questions.

Meeting adjourned at 8:40pm.

Board Meeting Minutes - July ’09

Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:43:23 -0700

The meeting was called to order by President Erick at 7:05pm at his home. Present were Bob Moffat, Erick Camp, Peter Winderling, Stewart Beels and Ivan Richardson, along with Alice Brynestad.

Treasurers report showed a balance of $129.63. Red chip fund balance is$106. as of July 1, 2009. However, Webb Olliphant won the Red chip on July 2, 2009 in the amount of $129. which included the amount collected that evening of an extra $23. At present, we are starting over in the Red Chip fund.

The Membership report was submitted by Peter Winderling, and we now have 70 members in NWAP.

Stewart Beels will be our new Treasurer. Publisher/Editor will be Bob Moffat and Peter Winderling will take over Publicity. These changes are due to the resignation of David Putman, due to his health problems and their moving to Arizona.

This rearrangement will be noted in the Bylaws, which will be written up by Bob Moffat for our perusal and then forwarded to the membership. These changes will be noted in the August newsletter. A short meeting will be held in September to ratify these changes.

The proposed new lineup of duties and officers will be as follows:

President: Erick Camp
Vice President/Treasurer: Stewart Beels
Secretary: Alice Brynestad
Membership/Publicity: Peter Winderling
Director at large: Fred Battie
Director at Large: Bob Moffat
Director at Large: Ivan Richardson

The reduction of Board members was also discussed but no decision was reached..
It was moved, Seconded and Passed that we table the purchase of new Operating Systems until further notice.

A letter to the Bank of America will be written indicating that the signatories for checks will include Stewart Beels.

Meeting adjourned at 8:50pm.

Addendum to this report: Eldon Estep in now the new Treasurer. He is on the Bank of America NWAP account and ready to roll.

Treasurer's Report - June '09

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:06:45 -0700

Board Meeting Minutes - June ’09

Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:00:14 -0700

The NWAP Board meeting was called to order by President Erick at his home at 7:03pm on June 2, 2009. Present were: Erick, Bob Moffat, Stewart Beels, Ivan Richardson, Peter Winderling, David Putman, and Alice Brynestad Absent: Fred Battie.

The Treasurer's report indicated a balance of $613.64 in all accounts. Red Chip fund is $106.00 Report Accepted.

Membership Report showed 75 members. Six are overdue, and seven are coming due in June and July. Report accepted.

Discussion followed about our participation at the Puyallup Fair along with other South Sound computer groups. Volunteers are needed for this project. More information when it is received.

Peter Winderling has agreed to be our Membership chairman.

The Standing Rules report was accepted. Thanks go to Bob and Alice for their good work.

The Quicken computer program has a feature for recording all equipment in NWAP. A paper trail of this and the purchases will be available on Quicken and off site.

Historian's duties will be developed with Ivan Richardson, our Historian, when Fred is available to work on this.

The NWAP picnic and Open House will be held on June 14th at the Lakewood Library. The picnic supplies will be checked and purchases made as necessary.

Meeting adjourned 8:27pm.

Alice Brynestad, Secretary