MEEOA Board Meeting
March 8, 2002
KVTC
*People in attendance: Linda
Ives, Teresa Smith, Sara Henry, Rusty Brown, William Ellis, Chris Yardley
*Call to Order
*Review of minutes
Sara
moves to accept minutes as amended.
Rusty
seconds.
Minutes
passed unanimously
*Baldacci panel that Lynn
is organizing:
Arnold Mitchem cannot make
it, but will send someone from COE
Tom Allen cannot come.
A suggestion was put forth
that we should have a minority person on the panel.
Gear Up has been contacted
to provide someone to the panel as well.
Is Upward Bound over represented?
Format - Sara will moderate,
do acknowledgements
Then Baldacci will speak.
Panelists will speak.
Then open mike that people
can walk up to.
In cafeteria/student center
of Portland Campus.
Panel will be on risers.
Panel -
John
Baldacci, US Congress and running for Gov. of Maine
Peggy
Crawford, Director of UMaine financial aid
Sheila
Jepson, Principal of Bonny Eagle High School
Joe
Wood, Provost of USM
When - 6:00 - 8:00 PM on
March 29th
Sara will wrap up. Two hours total.
How many invitations should
we send out? The room will hold
approximately 200 people. We
should send out approximately 1,000 invitations/announcements.
Where will we get our money
(about $500) to pay for everything?
FAME might be interested.
Should we have students
there? Yes. They would provide good energy and be
available to be interviewed by the press.
Maybe students from USM and Bowdoin programs. Jerry offered some Onward students. Teresa said she could bring some adult
students.
Kim Goding from the UMF UB
program is now working for Baldacci for Governor as a full time person.
*Strategic Plan
Sara has inherited Jerry
Ellis' file from the last Strategic Plan.
Should we get rid of the student support piece? This was the idea coming from the
annual meeting. Should we get past
presidents involved? Past
presidents don't mind helping, but do not want to be formally involved. We are considering a consultant to come
to one of our meeting to help with the strategic plan.
*Budget Planning
Sara looked at last year's
budget and made a projected budget (worst case scenario). See attached. We need to increase our total revenue to support things like
the panel discussed above (in addition to our regular expenses).
Raise conference fee to $125
Raise individual membership
to $20
Ads $100 full page, $50 half
page
Teresa motion to accept.
Chris second.
Approved unanimously.
*Treasure's Report
Checking
= $3,835.28
Savings
= $5,230.78
There are still some Policy
Seminar expenses to come out.
Report accepted.
*2003 Conference Update
Rusty has spoken with MBNA
for 8-10th of January 2003. Things
look good for those dates. We will
look for final approval from MEEOA members at the NEOA meeting in April and
then lock in the dates.
Theme? Keynote speaker? Socialization at Point
Lookout? The conference committee
will address these issues at their first meeting.
*Looking at Notes About
MEEOA from the Annual Meeting
Should we set up sub
committees? What would they
be? Conference committee,
political committee?
Term of President? This would require a constitution
change. Maybe we don't need to
change the current set up. Why are
people not volunteering for the MEEOA Board? We, as a board, need to start grooming people for the
board. The committee structure is
a great way to get this process rolling.
So let's look at some
committee ideas.
*Policy Seminar Update
Teresa has her ticket.
*New Business
Web Site Update - Sara will
be featuring a different program on the MEEOA web site. Will start with UMaine UB Classic and
Math-Science programs. Looking for
suggestions to "snaz" up the web page for MEEOA. Teresa suggested a "get to know
the MEEOA board" link with bios on each person. Also, we can add pictures and quotes from the annual meeting
at Point Lookout.