New Business

• 2VP Bell: Brief discussion about putting the CMS usage guidelines in place for 2016.

Officer/Staff Reports

Dick Christ, President

• Nothing submitted for this meeting.

David Morrissette, 1st VP

• Reviewer Corps
  • Late reviews are down to 101.
  • Working with late reviewers to either return items or finish the reviews.
  • 337 reviews posted to the end of April.
  • New manufacturers brought on: LPS Hobby, Freedom Models and Mirror Models.
• Supporting the Troops - from Jon Emery
  • Support the Troops is rolling on with support continuing.
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Old Business

• Due to increasing venue requirements, we have upgraded our liability insurance coverage. We now have $3M chapter liability coverage and a $2M umbrella policy. These changes went in to effect February 2014 with a new insurance carrier, Westfield Insurance.

New Business

• 2nd Vice President Mike Ronnau announced that he was resigning due to work issues and other factors, effective immediately. Ron Bell was named fill in until the end of Ronnau's term by unanimous vote of the executive board, effective immediately.
• Secretary Tennant made a motion (with John Ratzenberger seconding) to permit the posting of the board's monthly meeting...

Meeting Discussion

• President Ron Bell confirmed that a mass email was sent to members regarding the computer loss, to be followed by a card inserted into the next Journal to help ensure all members know about the potential data breach. The information at risk on the stolen laptop was limited to member addresses, phone numbers and email addresses.
• We continue to work on creating a task list for the Office Manager position and began to do the same thing for the Treasurer’s position. This is necessary because these two positions overlap in many ways. The goal is to have a clear list of responsibilities for both positions. Secretary Dennis Tennant will be compiling the list from info culled from lists provided by the e-board. Board...

New Business

• Don Schmitz, chairman of our marketing team submitted a report to Ron Bell detailing the progress his team has made and expressed their intention to draw up a survey to determine exactly who our members (and potential members) really are. They are working on the survey questions along with determining the mechanics of creating the survey. Due to pressing business, his report will be discussed further during the November board meeting.

• Due to the death of office manager, M.J. Kinney, the board meeting centered around that topic. President Christ wanted to make sure that incoming president Ron Bell will be on the list to allow check writing so we will have at least two e-board members approved to sign checks as needed. Treasurer...