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Sent an update to AICI corporate 11/5 with Columbus meeting dates (PA meetings are TBD). Added pics from the retreat and the satellite meeting.

Minutes from the Board Meeting 11/4/07

Board Meeting Minutes
AICI OH/PA Chapter
November 4th, 2007
Columbus, Ohio 1:00 to 4:00

Board Members:
Kristen Kaleal (President) LisaMarie Luccioni (Treasurer/Past-President)
Erica Torres-Dudziak (Vice-President) Jill Haney (Secretary)

Proceedings

President's Report:

- Update on the Delaware Valley Satellite Meetings.

- The goal is to grow the chapter and have more Eastern Pennsylvania involvement, including leaders with board positions.

- Conference call to be held with current board members and interested OH/PA members from the Delaware Valley area – most likely in January. Will put out an open call shortly.

- The 2008 OH/PA AICI meetings will be held as follows: March 2nd, June 15th, September 7th, and November 9th. All meetings will be held on Sundays in Columbus, Ohio**.

- Discussed possibility of holding next meeting at Macy’s at Easton or Polaris (since we now have a PR contact) for a tour of the store, preview of spring trends, and secrets of department store shopping.

**Other locations to be determined. We are looking for a meeting space that has a meeting room but will not pay for use of room above lunch price (hotels are currently charging $150-$250 setup fee, which as a small chapter, we will not incur). We are also losing $60 or more at each hotel meeting per meeting due to guaranteed counts. A possible option is Panera Bread, which typically has meeting space. If anyone in the Columbus area has any suggestions, please let us know.

Vice-President's Report:

- Discussed the AICI Leadership & VP Marketing conference calls.

- The AICI Publicity Handbook, which can be downloaded on the website, can be used to market our chapter and our own businesses.

- Anytime any of us is in the news, please send the information to AICI headquarters.

Treasurer's Report:

- Our chapter is fiscally sound! The Chapter Financial report was submitted and approved by HQ.

- This report must be submitted to HQ two times a year in order to get chapter rebate of $60 per member.

- Chapter checking account has a balance of $951.43 with additional rebates pending.

Other business:

- Board members discussed the idea of having a chapter retreat in 2009. Pittsburgh is a possibility as it would encompass both the PA members and OH members.

- Members discussed the option of getting CEU's for the retreat as this would help draw more members and possibly members from outside of our chapter, as there was an interest in the 2007 retreat from outside the chapter IF there were CEU credits offered.

- Submitted by Jill Haney, Secretary

Pics from the 1st Delaware Valley Satellite Meeting

JoJami Tyler, Nicole Green, Donna Dixon, Fatiha Occhialini, Brian Lipstein, Dana Persia, Sara Canuso, Ann Bernicker, Diane Reginato, Jennifer Ashton, Chris Baeza

Sara Canuso, Chris Baeza, Diane Reginato, Ann Bernicker

Brian Lipstein, AICI

JoJami Tyler (side of head to camera), Dana Persia, Nicole Green, Sara Canuso, Chris Baeza, Diane Reginato, Ann Bernicker, Jennifer Ashton

Photos courtesy of Renu Dalal

2008 Meeting Schedule for Columbus, OH

Greetings!

We had a very productive board meeting yesterday, and before the official meeting minutes are sent out, I wanted to let you know our meeting schedule for next year.

For those of you who have wanted to attend a Columbus-area meeting and it hasn’t coincided with your schedule, I’m hoping this will be enough advance warning for you :)

Don’t forget that you can always use the chapter blog as your resource for current information. The top section lists our coming meetings and other necessary info. We will also have this list posted on the official AICI chapter site very soon.

As soon as we know the Delaware Valley’s meeting schedule, we will put that on the blog and AICI site as well.

Columbus, OH Meeting Dates for 2008

March 2
June 15
September 7
November 9
(As always, these are all on Sundays)

**If any of the dates change, we will let you know as soon as possible**

We will have reports from yesterday’s board meeting and the first Delaware Valley Satellite Meeting (happening right now!) posted soon.

Here’s a picture of us from the meeting yesterday –

(L-R - me, LisaMarie Luccioni, Erica Torres-Dudziak, Jill Haney)

Kristen Kaleal

President

AICI OH/PA Chapter

kkaleal@aol.com

(440) 742-0385

Board Meeting Agenda - 11/4/07

Current Events & News

State of the Chapter
President’s Notes
Treasurer’s Report

Delaware Valley
Satellite Meetings

Membership Drive
VP Membership conference call – Erica
Brainstorming

Education & Development
Training Ideas
CEU’s

Leadership & Involvement
Future leaders conference call in January
Member of the Year

Promotion
AICI website, blog, email list, etc.

2008 Meetings
Columbus list
DVSM list (from Renu)