April 2007 Business
1) Moderator for the Sharing portion of the meeting:
“C†was the moderator for this meeting. “C†will also be the moderator for May. For June, “R†will be the moderator and “C†will keep the time.
2) Moderator for the Organizational Issues portion of the meeting:
“R†was the moderator for this meeting. For the next meeting we decided that each person who holds a responsibility would just report on the areas they are responsible for.
3) Administration of New Landscape:
Because of major changes in her personal and work situation, “V†is no longer able to be active in New Landscape. The things she did will be taken over by other people as follows:
a) “C†will keep the mailing list, administer the yahoo email account along with the website email account, and send out the pre-meeting monthly mailings.
b) “R†will take over the post office box.
c) “F†will manage the bank account. “C†is the back-up.
d) “C†will take minutes of the organizational issues portion of the meetings, and make sure they get posted to the website.
e) “R†will prepare agenda (monthly) for the discussion of organizational issues.
f) “F†will maintain contact with the YMCA.
4) Website – link from Many Voices site
“V†had asked Lynn W. of Many Voices to post a link to our website on their “Links†page. Lynn said she would – when she was finished getting out the next issue of Many Voices. Jeanette will follow through on this.
5) Plan for the timing of the next meeting:
The group decided to try something new for the next meeting. The sharing portion will run for the first hour and 45 minutes. The organizational issues will run for the remaining 15 minutes. As the website has come into being, the group felt that administrative issues are lessening, and would like to devote more time to sharing. The group will “test†this at the next meeting.
6) Update FAQ’s:
“C†will bring the “FAQs†to the next meeting to discuss/update them.
7) Update Pamphlet:
Once the FAQs are updated, we can update the current pamphlet. We will discuss this issues at the next meeting.