The board reviewed the National Contest Committee's proposed rules changes for the 2017 contest and gave feedback to Chief Judge Mark Persichetti.
Membership pins have been ordered for 25 and 50 year members.
Conversion to PayPal for credit card processing is complete.
Officer/Staff Reports
Ron Bell, President
Membership recognition pins have been ordered.
Upon suggestion from member, approved a program for sale of discounted memberships at local model shows.
Progress is being made on the survey planned by the Marketing Committee. A revised draft was shown to the Eboard for comment and the committee is going to further refine the questions and get back to us....
Working on a booklet/hand out to give to new members with modeling tips.
John Noack, 1st VP
Nothing to report.
T.J. Misiolek, 2nd Vice President
Nothing to report.
Mike Oberholtzer, Treasurer
Our October financial reports show us with an income of almost $50,000 year to date. Keep in mind that we will be paying out about $11,000 of that to Phoenix when convention reporting is complete. After...
Unanimous approval for our new Advertising Manager, Bill Whipple, to receive free membership as long as he serves in this role.
Officer/Staff Reports
Ron Bell, President
Working with John Emery to get more emphasis on our "support the troops" program including a guest column in the Journal from him explaining the functioning of the program and a possible outside sponsor.
Due to a slow down in business needing attention and the ability to handle a lot of it via the internet, we have changed the E-board meeting schedule to a bi-monthly update and meeting via conference call every four months. That means updates will only be posted on the...
New Micro-Mark discount to members goes into effect.
Four potential bidders for 2020/2021 National Conventions.
Memberships up significantly from last year.
Officer/Staff Reports
Ron Bell, President
After a brief interval for personal reasons, I have re-started work on compiling info for the RFP for the web site update.
John Noack, 1st VP
Added several new suppliers to Review process.
Scrubbed active Reviewers' list for expired membership dates, excessive late reviews, etc- provided list of active reviewers to Phil Peterson for guidance in...
I’m working with two other hobby groups for partnerships in advertising/mutual support.
John Noack, 1st VP
We received a large package of review samples as well as National raffle donations from a Russian supplier, AM Models.
A 15% off, IPMS/USA member-only, discount program with Micro-Mark has been established and an access code will be published in the next Journal. Also, Micro-Mark will begin sending us exclusive review items... a win-win all around.
Approximately 221 reviews have been processed to date in 2018.
The Hobbico bankruptcy has impacted the quantity of available items. I'm...
I will start collating the input from the non-techies in the website renovation and will then share them with Webmaster Eric Aitala for the tech part so we can write an RFP.
Working on partnership with another hobby organization for a membership/info table swap at each other's convention.
Something I am not doing the next Journal is writing a column. Dave Knight, the new Recruitment & Retention secretary, will take my place so he can explain his new position to the membership.
To take advantage of the fact that our new Recruitment and Retention Secretary is an attorney, President Bell suggested that the board begin using David Knights as our legal counsel. David graciously agreed to help the Society with its legal issues in the future. This change will make it quicker and more convenient for the Board to obtain legal advice. Our former counsel, Kaliste Saloom, has been informed and thanked for his years of service to the board.
MOTION MADE — Jim Pearsall made the motion to appoint Bill Whipple as the Journal advertising manager with Mike Oberholtzer seconding. The Board voted unanimously in favor. Whipple accepted the position March 19, 2018 and will have his membership comped upon acceptance for the length of his...
Re-confirmed potential bidders for our next convention bid meeting.
Coordinated with the NCC and the Phoenix Convention folks to get the contest categories and rules published.
John Noack, 1st VP
Reviews continue to be posted — a little bit of a slow start to the year but picking up. I'm pinging all of the manufacturers and distributors regularly.
I began a campaign to bring some new manufacturers on board and have landed three new companies thus far. We...
The Board appointed David Knights to fill the new position of Recruitment and Retention Secretary and TJ Misiolek as 2nd VP. I spent some time putting together info for both appointees regarding their responsibilities and getting them listed in all the right places.
Due to the holidays, not much else happened.
Officer/Staff Reports
Ron Bell, President
I am in the process of briefing our new Recruitment and Retention Secretary on our existing programs and how the Eboard functions.
Next task is to appoint a 2nd VP, which will happen shortly.
Have tasked Sec. Tennant to get the management of SIGs in order so...
