MEEOA Board Meeting
May 10, 2002
KVTC
*People in attendance: Linda
Ives, Teresa Smith, Sara Henry, Rusty Brown, William Ellis, Chris Yardley
*Call to Order
*Review of minutes
Sara motioned to accept.
Linda seconded.
Accepted.
*Policy Seminar Update
Teresa had a great time and
everything went very well. The
students did a great job. Teresa
will probably take the lead next year.
*Budget Planning
*Treasure's Report
Received Policy Seminar
Reimbursement.
checking
= $2,769.17
savings
= $5,241.28
Outstanding costs - some
printing and postage fees from the forum with Baldacci. Also the room fee (?) and the food cost
(?). Potentially $300 outstanding.
The web domain for MEEOA
costs about $25 per year (to get MEEOA.org)
Report accepted.
*Another Forum This Year?
Sara would like to see this
happen again. However, the Board
was not involved. Only Michele and
Sara attended. Should the Board be
more involved if we do another one?
It appeared to be more of a
First District event. The timing
was not ideal -- Friday night, three-hour drive each way. These are some of the reasons
attendance might have been low.
It has to be a neutral
function. We can't take
"political" sides.
If we organize one as the
Board, we need to do some things differently. Why was the first one successful? The goal was to educate Maine citizens about educational
opportunity programs. We did this,
but there are a lot more people to reach.
Did we promote MEEOA enough?
If we are going to be
politically active as a Board and an organization, how do we do this without
taking political sides?
Visibility?
Fact sheet from MEEOA about
candidates running for office?
Make a subcommittee to do this.
Start with candidates for Governor. Will we be mailing a set of questions to each candidate to
answer?
It looks like we need to
form a committee for political advocacy.
Sara is agreeing to chair the committee, but would like to have another
Board member as part of the committee.
Do we want to have Board members serving on committees? Is the Board becoming overcommitted?
One idea is to have
committees, without Board members attending the committee meetings, but the
committee would have a Board member as a contact.
So what committees do we
need? We already have an Annual
Conference Committee. Others --
Publicity, Policy Seminar, Political Advocacy.
*2003 Conference Update
We have turned in the
non-MBNA summary form. If this is
approved, then it goes to the scheduling committee. It will probably be about a month until we hear.
Rusty received some good
suggestions at NEOA regarding speakers.
The tentative dates are January 8-10, 2003.
*Strategic Plan
The old strategic plan is
very similar to where we are headed today. What do we need to do with the current strategic plan? Let's look at NEOA's strategic
plan. Sara feels that if we look
at what has already been put on paper (1997) in conjunction with what NEOA has,
we don't need to do much else. The
things we have been discussing all fit within these two sources.
Sara is going to make sure
we have the correct Strategic plan from 1997. Then we can go from there.
*New Business
Next Meeting - June 13 at 12
Noon at Sara's house.