Club Officer’s Meeting Minutes, December 05, 2017

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Club Officer’s Meeting

December 5, 2017

Our president, Janell, called the meeting to order.

Also in attendance were Nancy VP of PR, Jean VP of Ed, Julie VP of Membership, Hilary Treasurer and Lynne Sergeant at Arms. Jim joined us toward the end of the meeting.

1.     Lynne is purchased holiday cards and will purchase gift cards as gifts to IOsource folks who provide the room for us.

2.     The project to rework our Toastmasters banner and ribbons has been placed on hold.

3.     The remote owned by the club for PowerPoint presentations has been misplaced. We may need to purchase another one. No decision was made.

4.     Our meeting minutes need to be written in a friendlier format for PR purposes and include announcements.

5.     Warren wants to reach out to former PSNW members as a recruitment drive. The issue of forgiving them dues for the first 6 months back has yet to be decided.

6.     We will have new club officers. Julia will be Sergeant at Arms and Giri will be our new membership VP beginning in January.

7.     We need a president for spring 2018. We asked Randy and he will get back to us later this week.

8.     Lynne is writing up a chore list for Julia. It was discussed whether we should all write up directions for our jobs. It was decided that a chore list/job description may scare off potential officers.

9.     Mercedes will be having her baby soon, if she has not given birth already. Jean proposed that we take a collection for a baby gift. It was decided that we would make the collection this week and next and use the proceeds to purchase an Amazon gift card for Mercedes, to be given to her in January.

10. Nancy needs to figure out how to post documents to our website. Our meetings were listed Mondays on the website calendar. Nancy will rectify that (DONE).

11. As of November 30^th, Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters has $821.51 in the bank.  

12. Jim suggested that we consider not having a Best Speaker contest at our regular meetings. Some of the other clubs he visited do not do it so new members are not intimidated competing against seasoned members. We discussed it and made no decision.

Respectfully submitted by Nancy Hovan Carpenter for Uliana, PSNW Secretary