EMSBo DMeeting Minutes100213

EMS
Board of Directors
Meeting Minutes
Meeting date: 10/02/2013

Call to order:

A Regular meeting of the Board of directors of EMS, was held at 687 McKinley street, Suite #2, Eugene OR on Oct 2nd , 2013. The meeting convened at 6:15 PM, Rick Osgood, presiding, and Clif Cox secretary.

Board Members in attendance: Clif, Rick, Bob, Kevin
Board Members not in attendance: Kassie

Quorum present? Yes

Also Present Were: none

Approve agenda, and previous minutes.

Agenda:

Approve the agenda
Review previous meeting minutes
Treasurer's Report
Discuss ongoing space search
Start planning for annual board meeting

Approval of Agenda: Motion was made by Rick, and seconded by Bob to approve this meeting's proposed agenda (as amended?)

Unanimous approval.

Motion carried.

Approval of minutes: Motion was made by Clif , and seconded by Rick to approve the minutes (as amended?) of the Sept 4th '13 meeting.

Unanimous approval.

Motion carried.

Treasurer's Report:

In July we had 24 members in good standing. ie. Paying members... There were a couple of folks for just two months, so now we have 21 members (IGS) as of Sept. In our checking account we currently have $484.11, and in paypal $245.28. Also we just remembered Bob for $204.61 for tooling, this will show up on the Oct statement.

Discuss ongoing space search

Long long talk... We are doing good on finding good spaces that we can almost afford. We talked a long time about how to raise more money and if we should raise dues or not.

Start planning for annual board meeting

First we should consider moving the meeting date father away from Christmas. Then we should announce to the lists that it's coming up, asking for new board member nominations, and possible agenda items.

Action Items:

Kassie:

Rick:

Add a new paypal tier, and post to a list to sign up! :-)

Clif:

Continue working on the new space search.
Work with Realtor to negotiate rent down for our top three choices.

Bob:

Kevin:

Adjournment:

Rick moved for adjournment, Seconded by Bob

Unanimous, the meeting was adjourned at 7:51 PM.

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