Welcome our new Region 11 Coordinator, Bruce Drummond Sr. Bruce is a long time modeler. His IPMS/USA odyssey started in Long Island in the 80’s. He migrated (as many northerners do) to the West Palm Beach are in FL and was involved in many chapters there. He was instrumental in creating the South Florida Scale Model Consortium in West Palm Beach in 2012.

His first of many nationals was in 2008 in Virginia as well as his first experience in judging. He was the head judge for the Miscellaneous Category in Phoenix.

We are glad Bruce stepped forward to help out Region 11 and look forward to working with him.

Officer/Staff Reports & Discussion

Dave Lockhart – President

• DL called the meeting to order at 7:06PM, EST
• DL requested a tally of which Executive Board members will be attending the National Convention in Omaha this summer.  All board members confirmed that they will be in attendance.
• MO/DL/RB confirmed that we had received IRS required Conflict of Interest from all but one board member, and one RC.  (Both individuals forms have been received and posted to the archives in the interim.)  Dave indicated that future policy requires these forms to be turned around within 30 days.

Phil Peterson – 1st Vice President

• PP indicated that the Ukraine situation is affecting our acquisition of review items from...

Officer/Staff Reports

Dave Lockhart – President

• Called the meeting to order at 7:04PM, EST
• Dave is going to research where our IPMS/USA charter document is located
• Kudos to Mike Oberholtzer for spearheading the Wild Apricot integration efforts with the National Convention registration team.
• Asked for concerted effort to get the membership records updated to help keep the Journal going out to the membership on time.
• Dave initiated a discussion regarding IPMS/USA’s liability insurance.  We need to re-evaluate our coverages to include major catastrophe (i.e. covid, etc.)  Rob to work with Dave to research the requirements.
• Dave asked John to research the cost IPMS/USA sponsoring a light meal for the judges...

Fellow modelers, today we roll out a new member and event management system that will bring IPMS/USA into the 21^st century. With over 4,500 members, IPMS/USA is much too big and complex to manage on an Access database any longer! The new system brings automated processing to many of the repetitive tasks involved in keeping track of our memberships and will improve turnaround time on renewals, new memberships, convention registrations and more.

Some of the features you can take advantage of now:

• Online Renewals: You will now begin to receive emails notifying you when your membership renewal is due. No more wondering or checking the Journal cover for your expiration date- you will get a few reminders...