Alan moves creation of an elections committee for spring conference.
The elections committee should seek candidates for nomination to each
of the four elected positions: president, vice president, treasurer and
secretary. It may be appropriate to consider an expansion of the
elected board to ensure that the board will be more elected officers
than appointed. This recommendation needs to be put to membership as a
by-law change for formal vote. Nominations should be ready by January
1, 1989 to allow notification of members. Announce the candidates in
the two calendars that precede the conference. The nominations
committee should reflect the makeup of MassCUE.
Final motion: The committee should be composed of 3 people. No person
on committee can be running for office. There should be at least one
classroom teacher on committee. Not more than one current board member
may be on the committee. The June 1988 calendar should have a request
for volunteers to serve on the committee.
Passed 7/1
4. MassCUE has done well under the leadership of the current board this year. A written report will be forthcoming in June.
5. Gail Ross-McBride moved to raise Corporate Sponsorship to a base
level of $150. The current base level sponsorship is $100. It would not
be wise to raise the level too high for the small vendor to
participate. This does not preclude the possibility of a graded
sponsorship to allow a higher level of sponsorship from those who might
be able to afford it. There was discussion of the possibility of
allowing vendors to buy discounted memberships to distribute as a sales
perk. It was generally felt that this would not really add to our
organization's strength since some of these memberships might go to the
members we currently have which would cost us money.
Main motion passed 8/0
6. Other.
a. Earle requested a clarification of current member dues. The current member rate is $20.00 (effective July 1,1988) and the student rate is $15.00.
b. Alan moved the creation of a
"MassCUE Advisory Council". Such a council
would meet our need for working relations with the computer using
businesses of Massachusetts. The advisory council would provide
us with people who would serve us as boards of directors serve companies by giving us a broader perspective.
Martin sees need of link to corporate world, but not just to have
businesses give us information. Such a :##8group would need to make
recommendations to us, but not be a policy setting group which is common in
private, and university environments. Alan restated the
motion: that the advisory council should be composed of
stakeholders in the educational community who would serve MassCUE
in an advisory role with concerns including MassCUE finance,
mentor relations, etc. We should pursue the design of the concept in principal.
Passed as restated 8/0
c. Earle requested that next meeting we consider the issue of volunteerism in MassCUE particularly in regard to getting more of the gut work done on a volunteer basis so we do not get too far out on a limb financially with clerical help. This comment is not meant to downgrade the importance of regular clerical work which is paid (Thank you Lelia). MassCUE needs to maintain its grassroots work ethic. Earle was particularly concerned that his conference request for help on OnCUE had no response. Alan reminded us that the best method for getting help from someone is to actually speak with them, preferably face to face. Beth Loud (who attended the board meeting as the only non board member) resurrected the phone tree idea as a way to further allow for recruitment for volunteer jobs. If each person on the board had 10 people to call and each of those had some to call, the message of request would get to everyone quickly. Boston Computer Society volunteerism came up. Alan remarked that BCS has a paid staff in addition to its volunteers and that the staff significantly supports the work of the volunteers. Alan reminded us that the number of SIGs in MassCUE has grown, the number of conference presenters is up, we have several new people spearheading MassCUE events (Applefest, Leadership), there were more schools at the Statehouse. Earle specifically requested more columnists to provide regular information for the newsletter and advertising help.
d. We need to locate a source of "theater wire" to replace the stiff wire currently in the electric cables for conferences. The next meeting of the board is Saturday June 18, 1988 at 10:00 AM at Len Huber's House. Directions forthcoming. Remember to carpool.
Meeting adjourned at 2:40 P.M.