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Board Minutes 2020-09-23

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JGSPBCI Board Meeting Zoom (Covid)

September 23, 2020 at 1pm

 

Absent: Alan Huss, Glenn Segal, Mark Jacobson, Sylvia Nusinow

 

On phone: Eric Sharenow and Joel Sisitsky

 

President Ina Getzoff called the meeting to order at 1:13 pm.

 

Secretary: Beryl Cole read the minutes from the September 2, 2020 meeting. The minutes were accepted with two corrections.

 

Treasurer: Larry Schulman reported our operating account has $20,846.25 and our reserve account has $16,228.10.  All the money paid to the South County Civic Center for March through August 2020 has been refunded to us. The Civic Center told us not to prepay at this time as we usually do because of Covid 19.

 

The scholarship winner has received his $1800.00 grant. We paid $1547.00 out of our reserve account for the scholarship and $67.50 for our library fund, also from our reserve account.

 

We are paying $15.00/month for Zoom which allows us to have 100 people attend. It is $50.00 more per month for up to 500 people. We agreed to see what happens at our October 14th meeting.

 

Committee Reports

Membership Committee: Chair and Vice President Eric Sharenow reported that we have 126 memberships and 35 family memberships. Total of 161 memberships. ( 6 new members from the IAJGS meeting)  We are waiting for 117 memberships to renew. Ina suggested that calls be made to the non-renewals to see if their minds can be changed to renew.

 

Publicity Chair (external): Walter Rosenthal stated that there would be a Press Report in the Jewish Journal on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. Joel Sisitsky suggested that Walter look into Nancy Solomon’s daily column.

 

Publicity Chair( internal): Marilyn Lane said notices have gone out about the next meeting and they go out regularly. Marilyn wants to create an ad for her position to see if anyone is interested in helping with it. Marilyn listed the dates of the general membership meetings:

  • Wednesday, October 14, 2020

  • Wednesday, November 11, 2020

  • Wednesday, December 9, 2020

  • Wednesday, January 13, 2021

  • Wednesday, February 10, 2021

  • Wednesday, March 10, 2021

  • Wednesday, April 14, 2021

  • Wednesday, May 12, 2020

Ina wants a ”stand alone “ letter out to general membership asking for people to help on committees. Dennis, Mona and Ina will work on the wording of the request.

 

The last general meeting via Zoom had 58 people.

 

Programming Chair: Dennis Rice announced the date change to a year later, due to Covid 19, for the 30th Anniversary  Luncheon of JGSPBCI to February 13, 2022 at the Indian Springs Country Club. Ina signed the contract for this event. Larry Schulman wants a copy of the contract.

 

We discussed opening our Zoom meetings for free. There are concerns with security. Larry said we have the opportunity to allow non-members to attend our meetings; they could wait in the waiting room till someone lets them in. Ina wants a discussion about membership security for our next meeting.

 

Directory Chair: Mona Morris said she doesn’t have anything to report at this time.

 

New Business

Website: The team is Larry, Eric, Walter and Dennis. Ina wants all the changes and adjustments to go through her first. Cindy and Barbara did a lot of work on the website. It is 75% completed. Dennis said that someone has to be responsible for putting information on the website. On a temporary basis, John Cole is assisting with this task.

 

Larry will be the leader of this group to continue development of our website. We have dollars in budget for website. Evan Otis of PC Revive is working with us. Mona wants access for all members on our directory, which will now be located on our website. There was a question as to whether board meeting minutes would be available on the website for just board members.

 

Ina wants task forces for Zoom, website, Mailchimp and WordPress. She wants to get Tina back in the group.

 

Larry talked about the ad hoc committee for operations and bylaws, he has two board members and two group members making up this committee. He wants a one page description of each committee for the Operations Plan.

 

Dennis moved to adjourn and Joel seconded. The meeting was adjourned at 2:55 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Beryl Cole

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