Public
Speaking Northwest
Board
Meeting Minutes
April
4, 2017
In Attendance: Julie Hutton VP of
PR, Jean Tracy VP of Education, Jung Kim VP of Membership, Nancy Carpenter
Secretary, Jim Tracy Treasurer, Lynne Dauenhauer Sargent at Arms, and Randy
Barber President.
Meeting
was called to order by Randy at 10:40 a.m.
MOTION
1: Minutes from our February 14th meeting were approved as written.
President: Randy received an email indicating that, due to our high
achievement, our members would pay $35 each to attend that after party at the
upcoming district conference on May 20th. Jean thought that our admission
should be free. Randy will investigate.
MOTION
2: Randy also proposed that the club sponsor the registration fee for a member
who has never attended a district conference. A drawing would be held at the
April 25th meeting of interested persons. A secondary drawing would
be made for a backup attendee. A motion was made to this effect by Nancy and
seconded by Jean. The motion passed. Randy is checking any registration
restrictions that may impact this strategy.
Table
Topics Extravaganza feedback was solicited. Nancy noted that the attendees who
did not have assigned jobs were all newbees. It was posited that possibly
regular members were not interested in attending and newbees attended because
they didn’t know what was expected. More feedback will be solicited.
Table Topics Extravaganzas are planned for the last Tuesday of each quarter.
The next one will be at the end of June.
Randy wants to remind mentors to stress to
their mentees that PSNW is a safe place to experiment and grow.
Public Relations: Julie made a new
slideshow/video. Jean asked Julie to post the video to the header of our
website and the header of our FaceBook page, so it will not be pushed down the
page by new posts. Julie is working on this.
Julie
is coordinating that Open House, a promotional event, which will take place on
April 18th. She has been
posting about our group on FaceBook, LinkedIn, NextDoorNeighbors, and DIOS.
Randy suggested posting with the Chamber of Commerce of Woodinville and
Bothell. Julie will investigate this. If it must be done by a member to be done
for free, Randy will post with Bothell Chamber, where he is a member. Jung will coordinate the food for the Open House. Nancy will make a flier using Barb’s Table Topics
Extravaganza flier as a basis. Julie wants help with PR and we need a
decorator. Randy will announce this need at the meeting.
Education: Jean reports that we have 8 Distinguished Club
Points (DCPs) and need 9 to move to the next level. To earn that next point, we
either need 2 more completed Competent Communicators or Advanced Communicator
Bronze (ACB), Advanced Communicator Silver (ACS) or Advanced Communicator Gold
(ACG). Nancy has one more speech after today to complete her CC. Jung is close
and may have it done by the June 30th deadline. Speeches can be done at other clubs, during
board meetings, or before/after regular meetings.
Membership: Jung reports that in
March we had 6 guests, of whom 2 joined, Deepa and Peter. Per the website, we
had 28 members and now, with the newbees, we have 30. There are 4 or 5
potentials. Jung will be absent on the 25th of April and the board will step in to greet guests.
Secretary: Nancy will be absent
on April 25th and needs someone to do the minutes. Randy will announce at the meeting.
Treasurer: Jim reports that we
have 24 paid members. His tenacity paid off and he was able to have the $10
erroneous charge by the bank reversed. We have $806.24 in the bank as of
03/21/2017. We have 7 members who have not paid their dues.
MOTION
3: Jim proposed that we raise the club fee to $12 from $10 and that it be
prorated, as the TI fee is. A motion was made to this effect by Nancy. It was
seconded by Julie. The motion passed. Jim will make a spreadsheet
for the new member packet so the actual amount due can be easily deduced.
Sargent at Arms: All is good.
MOTION
4: Motion to adjourn was made at 11:35 a.m. by Jim and seconded by Julie.
Motion was passed.
Respectfully
submitted by Nancy Hovan Carpenter, PSNW Secretary
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