Members:
Crystal Liechty — Chair
Jaime Theler –Chair-Elect, Guild Committee President
Loralee Evans – Secretary
Lori Parker – Finance Chair
Cindy Bennett–Finance Co-Chair
Rebecca Carlson — Membership Chair
Wendy Jessen — Conference Chair
Jessica Kendall — Conference Co-Chair
*T.J. Bronley–Conference Finance*
Annette Lyon — Communications Chair
*Jessica Thompson–Assistant to the Communications Chair*
Traci Abramson — SMIAH Conference Chair
Jerry Borrowman–At Large Representative
Jennie Bennett–At Large Representative
Taryn Skipper — Whitney Awards President
*Non-voting members
Absent:
1—OPENING
Motion to approve. Jerry motions, Jessica seconds.
2—CHAIRMAN & CHAIRMAN ELECT, Crystal Liechty & Jamie Theler
We met as a committee. We talked about what value the guild brings currently, what value we’d like to bring. We talked about changes in membership. We did talk about setting up some sort of recognition program. Something like badges for certain word counts a month, for example. If it’s going to affect bylaws or policies and prodecures, we’d need to vote on it.
But what you mentioned, bring that back to us, tell us what the committee is thinking.
We’ll come back with a proposed change about membership, and we’ll talk about that as a board.
3—SECRETARY, Loralee Evans
Nothing new to report.
4—FINANCE CHAIR, Cindy Bennett and Lori Parker
Not present.
5—WHITNEY CHAIR, Taryn Skipper
Taryn needs to mention that I need a debit card still. and needs the membership person to keep her updated on who joins the guild so that she can add them to the academy email list.
Taryn needs a list of new members. She also needs valid emails.
She also needs to talk to Jaime about the meals. Prices will not be set until the end of the year, but we can get a good idea before then.
6—MEMBERSHIP CHAIR, Rebecca Carlson
Nothing new to add.
7—CONFERENCE CHAIR & CO-CHAIR, Wendy Jessen, Jessica Kendall
Jessica would like to talk about having the people with banking authority meet at the Chase bank on October 19th and remove the old people from the account and add the new people (Wendy, Jessica, and T.J.). The reason she’s asking for that day is that it coincides with the UVCC tasting.
You can go into any Chase branch to be added onto the account.
The contract with Cvent is signed.There are an extra hundred slots. We can go above that, possibly.
We were thinking this year that sixty days is a nice round number.
We have a preliminary instruction schedule. We have a lot of people already lined up.
Giving sponsors/vendors tables might be a way to make some more money, but in the past that hasn’t been a big revenue-making part of the conference. We could pull it off, and if we increased the price by fifty dollars, that would help create more revenue.
If people are allowed to be patrons, and get their names listed in a program, that would be something we could think about as far as an idea to bring in money.
8—COMMUNICATIONS CHAIR, Annette Lyon, Jessica Thompson
We have Karen Hoover who would like to be the communication. We will vote for her via email.
Let us know what information needs to go in the newsletter.
We voted for Karen, and had a unanimous vote of all present to vote for her.
Should Karen be announced in the newsletter?
What are the next/upcoming position replacements to fill? Do they need to include one in the next newsletter?
Chair announcements? Newsletter for Sept & Oct to go out later this week.
9—SMIAH CONFERENCE CHAIR, Traci Abramson
SMIAH will be in a week and a half. In person registration closes tomorrow on the 5th. We’re close to the break-even point.
We’re hoping to have a bit of money left in the “slush pile” to save.
If we could add a tab on the website for SMIAH, that will tell people about the conference in Kansas City. We’d need to re-lable it to make it more related to Storymakers.
10—AT LARGE CHAIR, Jerry Borrowman, Jennie Bennett
Nothing new to add.
11—MOTION TO ADJOURN
Shelly motions to adjourn the meeting, and Jessica Kendall seconds.
Meeting adjourned.