PUBLIC EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FUND
Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
May 21, 2009
- Meeting called to order by Judy Nielsen at 6:04 p.m.
- Establish quorum: Six members present when called to order. Members in attendance: Chip Carman, Judy Nielsen, Jack Meeks, Susan Rogers, Paul Shampay, Cassandra Walstrom.
Absent: Holly Hermansen, Elisa Parker.
Others present: none
- Additions and corrections to the agenda: none.
- Adoption of the Agenda as submitted (Carman/Rogers) Passed unanimously.
- Additions/corrections to the minutes for the April 16, 2009 Board meeting: none.
- Adoption of the minutes of regularly scheduled meeting of April 16, 2009 (attachment A) (Rogers/Wahlstrom). Passed unanimously.
- Open public forum: No members of the public present.
Action Items
- Shall the PEEF board schedule a time, date, and location for a retreat and regular meeting for the month of July?
Board members discussed locations and the agenda, which includes mission, goals, etc. Judy will check out the Briar Patch community room, NCSOS rooms and the library. We tentatively agreed on either July 18 or 25 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Moved (Rogers/Carman) to approve the action item as stated above. Passed unanimously.
Discussion Items
9. Website Report – Chip presented color printouts of the site pages to date (at nevadacountypeef.org) and we discussed the next steps.
10. PEEF Report – In Lew’s absence, Judy reported that Lew’s daughter is working on the logo and the policy manual should be available in June.
11. NCTV report – In Michael’s absence, Judy reported that Michael is scheduled to meet on May 22nd with Holly Hermansen and her business manager to talk about budget issues. It is very possible that NCSOS support of NCTV will be decreased.
12. President’s report – Judy distributed a calendar of upcoming events put on by PEEF Projects and encouraged board members to attend one or more to familiarize themselves with project activities. She also read and circulated for signatures a letter of thanks to Chuck Scimeca, who recently resigned from the Board.
13. Self-assessment survey – Judy had everyone fill out three different assessment tools in preparation for further board development and working on a revised PEEF mission statement. Board members thanked Judy for her ongoing work on improving Board functioning and development.
14. Calendar items
- CNL Workshop: Friday, June 12 – Engaging the Positive: Tools for Powerful
Action in the Nonprofit Organization
- Saturday, June 13, 8 am to 1 pm – Imaginarium rummage sale. Judy will accept items to sell to benefit the Imaginarium. She is willing to create an NCTV sales area for raising money for NCTV. Susan offered to staff the NCTV area.
14. Closed Session
- Personnel issue #1
- Personnel issue #2
15. Open Session
Announcement from closed session: The Board directed the Executive Director of PEEF to take action on Personnel issue #1 within the next 30 days. No announcement from Personnel issue #2.
Future agenda items:
- PEEF Human Resources Manual
- PEEF job descriptions
- PEEF versus PIE
- Volunteer technical support
Next meeting date: June 18, 2009, 6:00 p.m. 161 Nevada City Highway, Nevada City, NCTV Bryant Room
Meeting adjourned at 7:55 p.m.