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