EMSBo DMeeting Minutes121113

EMS
Board of Directors
Meeting Minutes
Meeting date: 12/11/2013

Call to order:

A Special meeting of the Board of directors of EMS, was held at 687 McKinley street, Suite #2, Eugene OR on Dec 11th, 2013. The meeting convened at 7:19pm, Weston Turner, presiding, and Clif Cox as acting secretary.

This is the first meeting of the newly elected board following the annual meeting.

Board Members in attendance: Clif Cox, Darrell Perko, Weston Turner, James Hukill, and Kassandra Kaplan.
Board Members not in attendance: None

Quorum present? Yes

Also Present Were: Michelle, and Bob

Weston acted is Chairman and Clif was appointed Secretary for the meeting.

The Chairman called the meeting to order.

Approve agenda, and previous minutes.

Agenda:

1. Approve the agenda
2. Review previous regular meeting minutes
3. Confirm new board members
4. Elect Officers
5. Officers Reports
   1. Secretary's Report
   2. Kassie talks about classes
6. Status on new space proposal.
7. Discuss space committee formation
8. Discuss Jason Petorak's membership

Approval of Agenda : Motion was made by Clif , and seconded by Kassie to approve the agenda as read.

Unanimous approval.

Motion carried.

Approval of minutes: Motion was made by Darrell , and seconded by James to approve the minutes of the 12/04/13 meeting.

Unanimous approval.

Motion carried.

Confirm new board members:

After some discussion it was RESOLVED that the following directors, elected at the 2013 EMS annual meeting, were found in all respects nominated, ratified, and confirmed.

• Clif Cox
• Kassandra Kaplan
• James Hukill
• Darrel Perko
• Weston Turner

Elect Officers:

Upon Further discussion the following officers were elected to fill vacancies:

MOTION - James moved, and Darrel seconded that Weston fill the Office of President

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

MOTION - Clif moved, and James seconded that Darrel be our new Treasurer.

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

MOTION - Weston moved, and Kassie seconded that Clif continue to be our Secretary.

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

MOTION - Weston moved, and Darrell seconded that Kassie continue to be our Facilities Manager.

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

MOTION - Clif moved, and Darrel seconded that James be our new Marketing and PR Director.

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

Officers Reports:

Secretary's Report

The Secretary presented and read a waiver of notice of the meeting, signed by all the directors.

Kassie talks about classes

The Facilities manager talked about resources and classes. Class development -- When we move to a new space, we will start classes and hopefully that will bring in lots of income :-) Kassie brought the new board members up to speed on the classes business plan, and how we may do outreach or advertising.

Status on new space proposal:

Clif gave a quick update on the Wilson space. They accepted our proposal, and we are waiting for some more info on the utilities so we can proceed on drawing up the lease. We probably need a few more space committee members before we pull the trigger.

Discuss space committee formation:

Bob left at 8:20pm

Looks like the biz income committee is prioritized to start first and after we pull the trigger then the logistics committee will take off.

Weston will be chair, Clif, Kassie, and others have joined. Darrell will be on both.

Discuss Jason Petorak's membership:

MOTION - James moved, and Kassie seconded that we accept Petoraks discounted membership application.

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

Action Items:

Clif:

• Create committee(s) mailing list(s), and track down who has already joined.
• Set up new accounting system.

Kassie:

• Work with Bob to implementing the new storage plan.

James:

• Do Doodle for new meeting times.

Darrel:

• Meet with Kevin to transfer treasures responsibilities.

Weston:

• Announce to discuss that we are looking for more biz committee members.

Adjournment:

Kassie moved for adjournment, Seconded by Weston.

Unanimous, the meeting was adjourned at8:46 PM

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