The Board of the Needle Arts Guild of Toledo met at the home of President Maria Nowicki at 6:30 pm on Thursday, November 6, 2008. Due to traffic snarls and travel delays, the meeting actually began at 7:15 pm. President Maria Nowicki presided, and Caren Scarbrough, Anna Kerlin, Su Pellitieri, Diane Myers and Annette Hill were present.
In anticipation of establishing a budget for the coming year, Caren asked Annette to review minutes back to the Evelyn Goodeman sale and advise her regarding our policies established regarding spending guidelines for our treasury. Annette will try to have this information by the regular meeting next Wednesday.
Treasurer Nancy Wright reported that our accounts have the following balances: Checking, $1479.31; CD $2126.25; Savings at 5/3, $1050.57; and Savings at Charter One, $1073.10. Our total assets are $5729.23.
Annette reviewed our regular meeting minutes from the October meeting in order to update Maria, who was absent from that meeting, and also to facilitate further discussion about all outstanding issues.
It has been reported that Christine Hampshire has suggested meeting at her church near Woodville Mall, however it has 5 steps up with a railing, which limits it’s accessibility for members such as Jenny and Kay. Annette is still waiting for word back on availability of the First Unitarian Universalist Church Fellowship Hall for our regular meeting. Since our regular meeting time is not available there, she will inquire about the availability on the first or third Wednesday, or the second Tuesday of each month. There would be no charge for use of the facility with Annette’s sponsorship, as a member of that congregation. Annette will also check to see if we can store a large tub of refreshment supplies. We would like to start the new year in the new location with our January meeting.
Because we will be moving from Toledo Botanical Garden and our storage space will be limited, it has been decided that our Library will be liquidated. We will offer them for silent auction first to our members at the meeting next week. We may assemble some of the better ones in an opportunity basket for donation to the GLR fundraiser. Any remaining books could be sold on EBay. Annette has offered to take care of the EBay sale on our behalf. Maria will email members about this opportunity and Diane will phone members who don’t have email.
Because our relationship with TBG has been terminated, we will not be participating in Heralding the Holidays. Therefore our wreath will be raffled for our own benefit at our December meeting.
The Board discussed the results of the Nominating Committee’s work. Sue Hojnacki is our President-Elect candidate; Kim Carlshammer has agreed to run for Program Chairman; and Cassandra (Cassie) Jamet will run for Secretary. Since most Board members live farther south, the Board is considering meeting next year at Hosanna Church in Grand Rapids, at Nancy Wright’s or Diane Myers’ homes, or at the Barnes and Noble coffee shop area at Fallen Timbers. Once we determine with membership when our regular meeting time will be, a day and time will be established for regular board meetings.
The Board then reviewed our designation of officers as to voting status on the Board. Currently the voting members of the Board are the President, President-Elect, Treasurer, Secretary, Membership Chairman, Education Chairman, Show Chairman, TBG Resident Organization Representative and Newsletter Editor. We would like to change our by-laws to include the Program Chairman as a voting member of the Board and discontinue the TBG Representative since we will not be affiliated with TBG any longer. In order to change this we will need to send written notice to our membership and then have the membership vote on it. Caren will write to the appropriate EGA officer about these changes. We will discuss this proposal with members at the November meeting.
Because Maria and Caren will be absent in December, we will install officers just after their election at the November meeting.
It has been proposed by several members that we change our name from Needle Arts Guild of Toledo to Needle Arts of Greater Toledo. Over half of our chapter does not live in Toledo. Section Nine sub-section I sets out the procedure to accomplish this. We will present this issue to the membership for discussion.
The meeting was then adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Annette Meyer Hill
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