Location: Hilton Garden Inn, International Drive, North Charleston SC Meeting Call to order by Chapter President – Robin Ward 6:00 pm Roll Call (Alan Tumey – (Secretary) Robin Ward, President Bo Stearns, Vice President John McFadden, Director at Large Sherry Deese, Regional Director A J Leone, Director at Large Kathy Patterson, Director at Large Approval of March, 2009 Board Meeting Minutes One change to March board meeting minutes under Treasury Report; “John McFadden motion to approve budget, Sherry Deese second motion, and budget approved”, change “budget” to “Treasury Report”. John McFadden made the motion to accept Mach Board Meeting minutes; Sherry Deese second motion, March 2009, Meeting Minutes accepted. Treasurer’s Report (Sherry Deese) Sherry noted that the dollar amount received from National for membership compensation was larger than expected. Suggestion to post Treasury Reports on AITP chapter Web site, John will send previous reports to Robin Ward. Christina Wakenell is listed on Chapter P.O Box as Administrator Ed Cavadias is chapter Web Domain Administrator other Board Member’s should have login credentials to the domain administration. Committee Reports Arrangement Committee (Alan Tumey) Chapter meeting May 14, confirmed dinner at Embassy Suites, North Charleston w/EGroup Training session June will be Picnic at Tanner Hall Robin Ward’s father will cook a pig. Kathy Patterson will coordinate acquisition of facility July -Mad River Programs – John McFadden John will work to determine business status of our organization 501-c3 or c4 Speaker slots are open for later part of year
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Education (John McFadden) Education planning for May E-Group Contacted MSI no response
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COPA (Bo Stearns) Banners and Trophy are still at National in Dallas trying to get sent to Charleston IPA Robin needs assistance and will contact Alan Blanche Membership (AJ Leone) New members joining will get the next months meeting free Motion to invite Cisco to a meeting free of charge, John McFadden, first, Sherry Deese, Second, motion approved Student Chapter Trident Tech is going to bring chapter back and ECPI is planning to start chapter We have three $500 scholarships for ECPI Columbia South Carolina will not start a chapter; Charleston will host Student Chapter for University of South Carolina National Conference Bo and Sherry visited Embassy Suites and Francis Marion hotels downtown Charleston We need to arrange Sponsors how many sponsors needed is in question Motion to have meeting as full conference Robin Ward, first, Bo Stearns, second, motion approved. Meeting will be full 3 day conference Golf Tournament (Kathy Paterson) Friday October, 16 is confirmed We need a charity and celebrity Raffle a free tournament at up coming meeting General Discussion Bonnie Bird has resigned as Treasure March 12, 2009 Motion to nominate Sherry Deese as new treasure, John McFadden, first, Bo Stearns, second motion approved Sherry Deese was sworn in by Bo Stearns Adjourn Motion to adjourn Sherry Deese, Bo Stearns, second motion meeting adjourned at 8:00 pm.
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