MEEOA Board Meeting
November 8, 2002
KVTC
*People in attendance:
Sara Henry, William Ellis, Chris Yardley, Michele Melanson, Rusty Brown, Teresa
Smith
*Call to Order
*Review of minutes
Sara voted to accept
minutes as amended.
Teresa seconded.
Accepted unanimously.
*Treasure's Report
checking = $2,611.67
savings = $5,270.61
Chris brought up that
there was an old name on the signature sheet for the checking account. That name is being removed and Teresa
is being added. Then the two names
on the account will be Chris and Teresa.
Rusty asked about the
easiest way to coordinate registration for the conference, room fees and
membership with Chris.
Rusty motioned to accept
report.
Teresa seconded.
Unanimously accepted.
*Baldacci at UMF
Rep. Baldacci at UMF,
coffee and snacks cost $137. An
invoice will be coming.
*President's Report
Sara handed out the
revised Strategic Plan. A few
minor changes were made. Sara will
email it to the MEEOA list serve with the intention that it will be voted on at
the annual meeting in January 2003.
A discussion developed
about a visual map for the web page which would display service areas within
Maine in relation to program. This
might be a good activity for the annual meeting.
*NEOA Update
Wge may attend to
present check to Leadership Inst.
No real update. Meeting is
a couple of weeks away.
*State TRiO Day Update
Being handled by the
MEEOA Board. Kristi has reserved
the Hall of Flags. We do not know
if they will be in session for Pages.
So Teresa, Michele and
Sara will send out a postcard to inform programs about Maine TRiO Day. Will know about Pages on the 13th of
December.
The cost of this day
might be as much as $1,000. Things
that were talked about included a new banner, food, mailings, advertising,
linens, catering.
*Alliance/Coalition
Building
Marcia Weston (FAME) -
Sara and Michele and Kristi went.
MASFA has $20,000 (from Nellie Mae) to spend on advertisements for
college awareness and educational opportunity awareness in Maine.
Should MEEOA get
involved with the ME financial aid organization and/or the ME counselor
organizations?
*2003 Conference Update
MBNA is still not
official, but Jim Patterson has assured us we will have a yes or no by
Tuesday. Jim is very confident
things will work out, but no official word from Delaware until Tuesday, Nov.
12th.
If we get the okay from
MBNA, then mailing will go out in about 2 weeks.
Mailing out Nov. 15th,
material due Dec. 13th.
Faith Erhardt is running
the auction. Part of it will be
silent to reduce the length of time.
Faith needs solicit some large items like a weekend, ski lift tickets,
etc.
Lori Wingo is taking
care of the talent show.
Membership fees:
Professional $20, Associate $5, Program $75
Conference fee: $125
Mitch will not be able
to attend the conference. Paul has
not confirmed.
Sarah Morrell is coming,
Linda Schiller is coming, Karen Scott is coming.
Sara will work on a Gear
Up session to attract Gear Up to come to the conference (with Karen Scott,
Vermont Gear Up)
*Policy Seminar
Teresa is willing to
go. So will the
President-elect. We need to find
someone to take over the yearbook.
*New Business
Next Meeting - December
13th in Augusta 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM.