New File Added: July 2012 EC Minutes

[joannam]

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July 2012 EC Minutes

Below/attached, you will find the minutes from the July EC Call. Enjoy!

BTW, Geoffrey Greene is now the offical MSTA Secretary. Please make him welcome, as I know you will!
MSTA EC MEETING 07/18/2012 6:00 PM CST

CONFERENCE CALL MINUTES

Attending:
Michael Snyder President
Dennis Villarose Vice President
Choon Gan Membership Director
Tim Macy Treasurer
JoAnna Murray Secretary
Jay Campbell Webmaster
Dianne Park Media and Public Relations Director
Geoffrey Greene Secretary Elect – Member at Large


Welcome to Geoffrey

STAR12 Update:

• Review the STAR survey results
  
  • The main objective concerned the distance to the Lunch Ride
  
  
• One suggestion was to schedule the banquet earlier for those leaving early on Thursday.
• Possibly have photo at 6:00 and banquet at 6:30.
• Overall there are few issues that really should be changed for next year.
• Last year’s profit was $11,400. It looks like about $5,300 this year.
• With 150 fewer attendees—this numbers are not surprising.
• 1650 is the total membership—there were 393 attending
• Tim has just about finished the number

Website Update:

• We now have a web committee!
• The committee will be headed by Jay and assisted by Donald Moe, Kevin Czap, Bill Royal, Dennis Villarose and Michael Snyder.
  
  • A topic discussed by many at STAR was that the Forum is “too hard to use”
  • V-Bulletin is used by the majority of motor-based and is considered the best in the industry.
  • Jay will wait to upgrade until a release has been available for 6-12 months
  • First committee meeting is scheduled for July 19, 2012

• JoAnna and Geoffrey would like to make an available a system that allows members to request greeting cards be sent to certain members. We often do not hear of people who fall ill or family members that are lost. MSTA would like to extend our wishes and perhaps with membership help we can increase the frequency. JoAnna and Geoffrey will work with Jay to create an online system for requesting cards.
• Jay would like to create a list of “10 most important” links for the Blue Book and STAReview. All agree this is a good idea.

Gearbox Update:

• Gearbox will now be using the Forum software.
  
  • We need a member to volunteer to take over the Gearbox
  • Jay has been ordering and shipping pre-order items. In addition, he purchased some sale items.
  • Jay and Tim will get together to setup a process to handle the money end.
  
  
• Jay found a service that designs logos. Michael has approved the first go-round. Several suggested changes were suggested. Jay will get with the designers for alternatives.

STAR13 Update:

• Michael has a few things he would like to do differently and will get with Dennis to keep making improvements based on member wishes where possible.
  
  • Everyone needs to understand that the MSTA does not control every single aspect of the events. We are often stuck due to facility limitations, cost and volunteers.
  
  
• Lunch Ride
• What is the optimal mileage?
• What is the maximum cost?
  
  • We need to keep the cap at $15 or less if at all possible. Also understand that these facilities are asked to shut down and serve only us in most cases and should be compensated accordingly.
  
  
• Dennis is working on a Logo Design with Jay and Michael.

RVP/Dennis Villarose Update:

• No additional updates…

Treasurer/Tim Macy Update:

• No additional updates…

Webmaster/Jay Campbell Update:

• Monthly Raffle—Would like to promote it on the web… Based on an entry rather than random drawing. We will coordinate with vendors to see if there is enough interest again to make this possible. It was very well received in the past.

Membership Director/Choon Gan Update:

• Any left-over STAR T-shirts (No)
• Has had no contact with any Life Members since taking over at Membership director. He will be sending new cards and a thank you note.

Media and Public Relations Director/Dianne Park Update:

• No additional updates…

Secretary/JoAnna Murray Update:

• No additional updates.

Secretary Elect/Geoffrey Greene Update:

• Happy to be here!

President /Michael Snyder Update:

• No additional updates…

Next meeting: Wednesday, August 15 at 6:00 CST

[Brick]

Sounds good... you all are doing a SUPER job!

I like the idea of "Monthly Raffle—Would like to promote it on the web… Based on an entry rather than random drawing." This could also aid in more participation in the Forum.

Also the current Forum is working well... at least for me anyway. A Big Thank You to Jay!

[VersysRider]

It is already in place. The announcement was made the first of the month...

We will attempt to start a monthly raffle again, starting this month. Prizes will vary from month to month. The raffle is open to all forum members.

You may enter once every 24 hours. Enter daily to increase your odds of winning.

August 2012 Raffle

MSTA 30 Year Anniversary T-Shirt
Your choice of size.
Entries end August 31st, 2012. Winner will be announced September 1st 2012.

Enter Now!