The meeting was called to order at 7:15pm. Richard Corzo chaired the meeting.
In attendance were board members Richard Corzo, Dick Gingras (President), Bert Goff (Treasurer & Secretary), Dave Green, and Andy Woodruff. DACS member Jim Scheef was present via Skype. The minutes were taken by Richard Teasdale.
- The Minutes of the 1/6/2016 Board Meeting were accepted.
Reports
- The Treasurer’s report for January was reviewed and discussed. Postcards were sent out in January to members in arrears.
- Membership committee: Jim reported that there are 95 current members + 14 in-grace, making a total membership of 109. 45 newsletters are being distributed, of which 25 are for current members and 2 in grace, and 18 are for promotional purposes. Jim emailed a spreadsheet, in which a monthly history of the stats is being accumulated.
- Marketing committee: No report.
- Press Coverage: It was unknown whether a press release was sent out for the February general meeting. Options for having someone other than Tom Zarecki do this were discussed. Dave volunteered to learn how to manage and send press releases.
- Website:
- Richard: Andy has been given website update access to post meeting notices, etc., in his new role as leader of the Video Production workshop.
- Richard: A Blog has been added to the website.
- Internship: Andy will try to find out from Tom Zarecki the status of the two WCSU intern candidates for marketing, and also follow up with Ridley-Lowell about their interest in supplying interns to work with DACS, how long each intern would be available, and what a Ridley-Lowell intern could do for DACS.
Old Business
- Staffing Predicament
- Dave will chair the March meeting of the Board of Directors.
- Drafts of the “need President” advertisement continue to be reviewed. Potential publication channels were discussed. The responsibilities of the President were reviewed.
- “End Planning” for DACS was deferred.
- Andy proposed a motion that DACS institute a policy: “If DACS ends, we will do our best to return the pro-rata unused portions of paid-up membership dues, and this policy will be carried out early enough so that there is still enough cash on hand to do so.”. The proposal was discussed, a vote was taken, and the motion was carried with four board members in favor and one abstaining.
- Programs
- The board agreed not to form a separate program committee at this time.
- Richard is working to find a speaker on the subject of wearable computing devices.
- Bert will check on recent speakers hosted by the Trumbull group and will contact a computer business owner in Brookfield who is a potential speaker.
- Dave knows someone who may be willing to talk about music notation software, and will try to arrange for him to speak at the March general meeting. Dave will write the preview article and Andy will write the review.
- The 25th Anniversary Dinner is scheduled for Wednesday, March 9th, at Two Steps, in Danbury.
- Whether and how DACS should charge for snacks at general meetings was discussed. It was decided to provide a jar for donations but not to price the items offered.
- Bert will check with Cathy Quaranta to determine whether she will provide snacks at the March general meeting.
- Renovation of the Resource Center – a new strategy was discussed and agreed upon – to search for a donor of used commercial carpeting that is being discarded but still in usable condition.
- Jeff Setaro completed the cutover to new software for the DACS Forum.
New Business
- Andy will contact Tom Zarecki to ascertain his expected participation during the WCSU Spring semester.
- Jim will investigate what can / should be done about the DACS voicemail.
- The board voted unanimously to reappoint Jim as a board member.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:20pm.