EMSBo DMeeting Minutes122216

EMS
Board of Directors
Meeting Minutes
Meeting date: 12/22/2016

Call to order:

A Regular meeting of the Board of directors of EMS, was held at 687 McKinley street, Suite #2; Eugene OR on December 22nd, 2016. The meeting convened at 6:11 PM, Tanda Linde presiding and Clif Cox acting secretary.

Board Members in attendance: Clif, Tanda
Board Members not in attendance: Ben, Rick

Quorum present? Yes, with forthcoming quorum wavers.

Also Present Were: Dean Walton, and Darrell Perko

Approve agenda, and previous minutes.

Agenda:

1. Call to order
2. Approve the agenda
3. Review previous meeting minutes
4. Confirm new board members
5. Appoint Dean to vacant board position
6. Elect Officers
7. Officers Reports
   1. President's Report
   2. Secretary's Report
   3. Treasurer's Report
8. Action Items
9. Adjournment

Approval of Agenda: Motion was made by Clif and seconded by Tanda to approve this meeting's proposed agenda.

The Motion carried with unanimous approval.

Approval of minutes: Motion was made by Clif and seconded by Tanda to approve the minutes of the 12/1/16 meeting.

Note that Only Darrel and Clif were at this meeting, but Darrell couldn't vote, though that meeting was mostly discussion anyway.

The Motion carried with unanimous approval.

Confirm new board members

After some discussion it was RESOLVED that the following directors, elected at the 2016EMS annual meeting, were found in all respects nominated, ratified, and confirmed.

• Ben Hallert
• Tanda Linde
• Rick Osgood
• Clif Cox

Appoint Dean to vacant board position

Tanda moved, and, Clif seconded that we appoint Dean Walton to fill the vacant board position.

Unanimous approval.

Motion carried.

Elect Officers:

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

MOTION - Dean moved, and Tanda seconded that Clif continue in the Office of President

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

MOTION - Clif moved, and Tanda seconded that Dean will take over from Darrell as our Treasurer.

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

MOTION - Clif moved, and Dean Seconded that Tanda take over from Ben as our Secretary.

Unanimous.

Motion carried.

That leaves the Facilities Manager, and PR Director yet to be determined.

Just for clarity, the end result of all this is the following board members and offices held:

Number	Name	Office
1	Clif Cox	President
2	Ben Hallert
3	Tanda Linde	Secretary
4	Rick Osgood
5	Dean Walton	Treasurer

Officer's reports:

President

Clif talked about the recent walk through of the old LCC downtown center, and that the project seems to be moving forward. We went over estimates of square footage, future plans, and possible financial obligations. Also mentioned Bob's space, which will come up for rent this coming spring, and our option of first refusal for that.

Secretary

Ben wasn't at the meeting, but we thanked him for a year of great service!

Treasurer

Darrell gave us the really great news that we now have 28 members and for one of the first times in EMS history are back in the black. WooHoo! He mentioned that we had about $1077ish in the account and there were a few new members this month. We talked a bit about the one person who paid for a whole year, and how to handle it. Also we revisited the personal property tax discussion and possible ways of handling that. The first step is creating a list of equipment, which then gets updated for January 1st.

Action Items:

Tanda:

• Start learning the wiki and how we take minutes.

Rick:

Clif:

• Clif find an org to talk to that tries to minimize its personal property taxes.
• Teach Tanda how to take and post notes.

Dean:

• Darrell and Dean work on equipment ownership list.

Ben:

Adjournment:

Clif moved for adjournment and was seconded by Dean.

The vote was unanimous and the meeting was adjourned at 7:03 PM.

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Secretary Date of approval
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