Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Meeting Minutes 08/27/24

 Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters


Meeting Minutes

August 27, 2024


Announcements: Our Next meeting on September 3 rd will be at our new location,

Brightwater Center!


Our Toastmaster was Deanna with the theme of Back to School

Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order.

Our President Lynne opened our meeting.

Our VP of Education pro tem for this meeting was Bill

Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian – Bill

Word of the day was: PRINCIPAL and ½ point for use of PRINCIPLE

Ah Counter – Jin

Timer – Lynn standing in for Katey H who could not make it.

General Evaluator – Barb

Our Speakers were Georgina with her second speech in the “The Passport Series:

Bull Run” and Amy with “Focus on the Positive”.

Our Evaluators were Barb and Robert

Our Table Topics Master was Kelly with Gossip Train

Our Table Topic Speakers were Kelly, Audrey, Katie, Natalia, Deanna, Jin &

Dustin.

Our Humorist was not included in today’s agenda.

Members in Attendance were: Lynne, Dustin, Katie, Justin, Kelly, Barb, Deanna,

Jin, Natalia, Georgina, Robert, Amy, & Bill

Guest in Attendance was Audrey

Motion to Adjourn: Deanna Second: Robert

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

08/20/24 Meeting Minutes

 

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

August 20, 2024

 

Announcements:

 Jin and Chelsea were both inducted as new members! Yay!

 Our Toastmaster was Dustin with the theme Pizza

 Our Sergeant at Arms Katie called our meeting to order.

 Our President pro tem Nancy opened our meeting.

 Education Minute: Toastmasters Magazine: Use Your Message to Inspire

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2024/aug/message-to-inspire

 Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian Barb

Word of the day was Napery.

Ah Counter – Katey

Timer - Amy

General Evaluator Kelly

 Our Speaker was Maria with Elevate Yourself, Understanding Emotional Intelligence speech.

 Our Evaluator was Bill.

 Our Table Topics Master was Nancy with a theme combining Pizza with Maria’s speech

 Our Table Topic Speakers were Justin, Chelsea, Bill, Natalia, Robert, Jin, and Deanna

 Our Humorist was everyone. We posted jokes in the chat.

 Members in Attendance were Dustin, Katey, Katie, Barb, Amy, Maria, Bill, Justin, Nancy, Kelly, Deanna, Robert, Jin, Chelsea, Natalia,

 Guests in Attendance: none

 Motion to Adjourn: Robert   Second: Dustin

 

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Meeting Minutes 08/13/24

 

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters

Meeting Minutes

August 13, 2024

 

Announcements:

 Our next and subsequent in-person meetings will be at Brightwater Center in Woodinville.

 Our Toastmaster was Katie with the theme Fire.

 Our Sergeant at Arms pro tem, Barb, called our meeting to order.

 Our President Pro Tem Nancy opened our meeting.

 Education Minute: Humor Pointers – Wait for the laugh

https://www.toastmasters.org/magazine/magazine-issues/2018/apr2018/humor

 Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian Barb

Word of the day was inglenook – The blank space on either side of a fireplace.

Ah Counter – Amy

Timer – Katey H could not attend so Katie was Toastmaster AND Timer

General Evaluator Dustin, his first time ever! He nailed it.

 Our Speakers were Kelly with “Triadic” and Bill with “Working the Phones with Sloan”

 Our Evaluators were Nancy and Maria

 Our Table Topics Master was Justin with Fire

 Our Table Topic Speakers were Katie, Barb and Amy.

 Members in Attendance were Katie, Nancy, Barb, Amy, Kelly, Bill, Justin, Maria, Dustin

 Guests in Attendance None


 Submitted by Nancy Carpenter on behalf of Sonal Suhane

 

Officer Meeting Minutes 08/13/24

PSN Officer Meeting Minutes

Aug 13, 2024

 

Action Items:

1.      Approved July Officer Minutes

2.      A motion was approved to provide a budget of $160 for both the in person and Zoom awards party for balloons, fruit tray, cake and prizes.

3.      Katie was given the go-ahead to donate our unused supplies, including officer pins, to other clubs.

4.      Deanna will add an appropriate convenience fee to all PayPal transactions to cover the PP service charge.

5.      There was much discussion around the last page of the member application. It asks for credit card information, but we use PayPal. Kelly marked the application form with yellow highlighter to not fill out the last page. It was decided to make it clear in emails that we instead use PayPal and also make some sort of marking on the page to keep people from completing the last page. Nancy will take a look at it.

6.      We still need a flag for our in-person meetings. The recently purchased flag stand is for our Toastmaster banner. Dustin has one he can bring in. However, Katie will purchase a small flag on a stand with club funds.

Deanna Move to adjourn Kelly second

Reports:

President: Thank you all for your great support while I am gone!!   

To Nancy for serving as President pro tem with the added layer of responsibility as we secured our new meeting location. 

To Katie for the amazing and efficient way you found us our new home.  I am so excited to begin using our new space.   

To Kelly for standing in for Dustin during his travels and for serving as my proxy for the TMI meeting.  

To Deanna, Sonal and Dustin for supporting the club with your dedication to your officer positions, always serving as needed and more.   

Wishing you all a great rest of the summer!!  I'm excited to return in September!!

Webmaster: All is well

VPE: Attached is our DPR and our Calendar. We have 1 point so far. On the calendar is an optional membership drive and storytelling contest for September. I updated the New Member Flowchart.

Treasurer:

Submitted By: Deanna Schroeder - Treasurer PSNW

Date: 8-12-24

1. Brightwater Room rental has been paid for: 9/3,10/1 and 11/5.

With booking fees, the monthly rate is $49.

Rental Fee Breakdown:

Tuesday, September 3, 11:30am-1:30pm, North Meeting Room

Tuesday, October 1, 11:30am-1:30pm, Conservation Classroom

Tuesday, November 5, 11:30am-1:30pm, North Meeting Room

Non-profit rental rate for North Meeting Room: $17/hour x 2 hours x 2 dates

= $68

Non-profit rental rate for Conservation Classroom: $17/hour x 2 hours x 1 date

= $34

Non-refundable service booking fee per date: $15 x 3 dates = $45

Refundable Damage Deposit: $100

TOTAL: $247

2. Reimbursement check sent to Nancy Carpenter (check 112 for

$104.56) for mailing expenses (2 pins to new members

completing ice breaker, 10 new pins, greeting cards)

3. Invoices for the next membership term (Oct ‘24-Mar ‘25) will be

sent out in early Sept. 2024. Confirm that PayPal fee will be added

to members paying via PayPal.

4. Deanna can order prizes/other in advance for upcoming meetings

if approved early enough.

5. A new flag stand was approved – is it still needed with switch to

Brightwater room?

6. PSNW club dues remaining at $12/term – I believe adequate at

this time. Can revisit in Feb 2025.

7. The PSNW bank account balance is $1011.67 as of 8/12/24.

Check 112 still outstanding.

VPPR:

Brightwater announcement was a grand success. Thank you, Katie for all your hard work.

 Social Media as of 8.8.2024

 September Award Parties

In Person – September 3rd

  • Lynne, can you confirm if you can be Toastmaster on the 3rd? If not, I would love another officer to take our first meeting at the Brightwater so I can focus on the party and videos.
  • I plan to bring my laptop with a speaker so we can play the awards video and any member spotlight videos we have.
  • I will also do extra PR to see if we can get more people there.

 Online September 10th

  • Nancy, is this the week you are traveling?  Shall we postpone the online party until later in September?

 Prizes. For the in-person meeting, I suggest we decide on the raffle prize now and Deanna can order it and ship it to my house. For the online party, we can wait until we have the meeting and Deanna can order the gift and ship directly to the winner. In addition, should we do a cake or little giveaways for everyone at the in-person party? Let’s decided the total party budget so I can backout the gifts.

 Gift Recommendations:

USB Lav Microphone $19.95

https://www.amazon.com/Sensyne-12-inch-67-inch-Recording-Compatible/dp/B0B3DJ6TP1/ref=sr_1_2?crid=35RQ0091V4OLD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.E3oPf_sI21wqdCaQrzy9w1PHbmj0wHZ71bC0egBelhkODi8OMduYW66wKbHn1rzu_TdFMbujafXMXq5pmxxClxdpoFMVNEsnxxwyZZxX6ARQOoK33LaFlwJLAb6Jx4EaBWj_MAvzStvdAW1T6IHUtw5GpN0vhcjGWI6ygbmWwJfrFH6RH0ax4CZTEUcVRKIwPsTyjo-3TYaxrJ49PRlM2_6iqu4xYZyz_nEN17o_PcNQE10911CX0uAppgoK0ZZ_aGU847SkY913Nu3CBC_h2Rzpahu7O83jmHlSZ5b3nj8.tdQq8rUJiTqQGf1SDMqGeVsfXb4IOmmjzGHsaHQfi_E&dib_tag=se&keywords=ring%2Blight%2Band%2Btri%2Bpod&qid=1723151097&s=electronics&sprefix=ring%2Blight%2Band%2Btri%2Bpod%2Celectronics%2C144&sr=1-2&th=1

 Ringlight Kit $25.49

https://www.amazon.com/Sensyne-12-inch-67-inch-Recording-Compatible/dp/B0B3DJ6TP1/ref=sr_1_2?crid=35RQ0091V4OLD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.E3oPf_sI21wqdCaQrzy9w1PHbmj0wHZ71bC0egBelhkODi8OMduYW66wKbHn1rzu_TdFMbujafXMXq5pmxxClxdpoFMVNEsnxxwyZZxX6ARQOoK33LaFlwJLAb6Jx4EaBWj_MAvzStvdAW1T6IHUtw5GpN0vhcjGWI6ygbmWwJfrFH6RH0ax4CZTEUcVRKIwPsTyjo-3TYaxrJ49PRlM2_6iqu4xYZyz_nEN17o_PcNQE10911CX0uAppgoK0ZZ_aGU847SkY913Nu3CBC_h2Rzpahu7O83jmHlSZ5b3nj8.tdQq8rUJiTqQGf1SDMqGeVsfXb4IOmmjzGHsaHQfi_E&dib_tag=se&keywords=ring%2Blight%2Band%2Btri%2Bpod&qid=1723151097&s=electronics&sprefix=ring%2Blight%2Band%2Btri%2Bpod%2Celectronics%2C144&sr=1-2&th=1

 Portable Green Screen $39.88 (this is for those who want to do virtual backgrounds better.)

https://www.amazon.com/Hemmotop-Backdrop-Reversible-Portable-Background/dp/B08S38N8QN/ref=sr_1_15?crid=12006KKL6KNX6&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-a4GCEYSNBK48YrP8EON5z3XUR-Vy7tnHINy97pw5EF0yP-Ts6nUZO63yT_32Iidkd-rA9n1hTS160onjRO2Fuc05O4zuxKYjlf4xxUuu2mLaaignHMiXI_m2GufAcLp1QXir-TOfLMIm9rT8nwk4dblXISkgnvblT1QOZfi3nffmTXXOrd_yIRjo6sb5x7HD4DQ0oS3yWQhqI2ViarypS9_wfrk1QVFgj_r3Xx_4fuuAduNcmGkocQ4fTnQppe-aJ6dlvSe0z0y538sXGu7G9GuTEXuMPQEjYeP24MxdVY.n9XZvcQP64xJmIVqLAVzx_QNYxLCDUfpN59WF7bq4T0&dib_tag=se&keywords=portable%2Bgreen%2Bscreen&qid=1723150915&s=electronics&sprefix=portable%2Bgreen%2Bscreen%2Celectronics%2C161&sr=1-15&th=1

 SAA Report

Public Speaking Northwest #9406– Sgt at Arms Report 

Submitted By: Katie Munoz – Sgt at Arms PSNW 

Date: 8-12-24 

  1. In person Meeting Room located and reserved through November. They have the room tentatively reserved for us on Tuesday to infinity. 
  1. The Sgt at Arms supplies have been sorted out. Old manuals, ribbons and a set of officer pins are ready to be donated to other clubs (with the other officers’ agreement) or put back into use.  
  1. We have a small supply of napkins; large and small paper plates, and cold cups. Shall I bring them to the September meeting? 
  1. There is no flag or flag stand at Brightwater. There was a flag in the Sgt at Arms supplies, but it was broken. 

VPM Report – Dustin

New Members:   Hyungjoon “Matthew” Yoo is a co-worker of Natalia Petrov.  He has decided to join.  He is in the process of making payment and has already completed application to my knowledge.  

We have 27 members, not including Hyungjoon.

TI Inquiries:  We had two TI inquiries in July

Devi Vam inquired 7/8, invited to 7/16 meeting, came to 7/30 meeting

Greg Sanders inquired 7/21, invited to 7/23 meeting.  My notes don’t say if he ever attended a meeting

Other Inquiries:

None that I am aware of.

 

 


Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Meeting Minutes August 6, 2024

 Meeting Minutes 08/06/24

Public Speaking Northwest Toastmasters


 Announcements: The new location for our monthly in-person meeting is Brightwater Center in Woodinville


 Our Toastmaster Kelly (VP of Public Relations). The meeting theme: Moving Party!


 Our Sergeant at Arms Katie M. called our meeting to order. Club mission statement. Pledge of Allegiance

 Kelly (VP of Public Relations) opened our meeting. Katie M. did a special presentation about our new meeting space (Brightwater Center).


 Our Gate Team was:

Grammarian  Natalia      Word of the day was Reminisce

Ah Counter – Jin

Timer - Natalia

General Evaluator – Justin


 Our Speaker was Barb with Adventures In Business (8-10 minutes). Motivational Strategies Pathway – Level 1

 Our Evaluator was Lakita.


 Our Table Topics Master was Deanna with “Moving” theme

 Our Table Topic Speakers were Natalia, Kelly, Lakita, Jin, Katey H., and Raul.


 Members in Attendance were Katey H, Jin, Justin, Kelly, Deanna, Katie M, Lakita, Justin, Barb, and Natalia.  

 Guests in Attendance Raul


Kelly presented bouquets of flowers to Lakita in appreciation for being the hostess for our in-person meeting room for the past 1+ years and to Katie M. for all her efforts in finding us a new meeting location.

 Motion to Adjourn: Deanna    Second: Lakita