Approved Minutes Approved Minutes 3/30/07

Members in Attendance

Doug Rollins

Leonard “Jay” Autin

Aviva Householder

Nicole Sauvageau

Lisa Peralez

Naomi Peschke

Mike Henson

Emily Anderson

Deborah Teller

Ariane Leverett

Beth Hasty

Board meeting was called to order at 4:37pm.

We discussed compensating the interpreters for the Chris Grooms workshop (Ariane Leverett and Casey Sheffield) with tickets to the 2007 TSID Conference. The board decided this was a good idea and it was approved.

We discussed having a workshop on the by-laws and parliamentary procedure so the board can become familiar with both. It was decided that we should do this workshop after the new board is voted in. We also discussed how to better advertise our workshops. We discussed having people sign up online for an e-newsletter and sending out reminder postcards.

We discussed compensation of workshop tickets to the ACC staff for providing us rooms for our workshops. We decided to compensate 5 tickets per workshop and give no end of year, in kind donations.

We discussed having a competition for interpreters with the prize being one student ticket at $100 and one regular member ticket at $200 to the 2007 TSID Conference.

General membership meeting called to order at 5:45pm.

A quorum was established.

The unapproved minutes from the previous meeting were read. Jay made a motion that the charge for the Chris Grooms workshop be amended from $700/hour to $700 total. Aviva seconded. The motion passed. Nicole motioned to approve the minutes with the changes, Jay 2nd, motion passed.

Reports

Treasurers Report: Sarah Machniak is resigning because of physical constraints. Ariane read the report Sarah sent to her. There was a $5 bank charge that was not supposed to be there. Ariane is going to the bank Monday to correct that.

Vice Presidents Report: We have 36 people signed up for the Buddy Bauer workshop. That includes three seats for ACC Staff. The cap is 45 people. Marquette Laquey volunteered to help with the workshop. There are 10 people registered for the Chris Grooms workshop, including 3 seats for ACC Staff. We need 27 people to break even. Some people from Texas State University wanted to know if we accepted purchase orders. We discussed trying to set something up.

Editors Report: The newsletters were printed and mailed, but not everyone got them because Ariane did not have all of the membership’s addresses. We discussed putting the newsletter on the website and are expecting another newsletter before the May meeting.

TSID Rep's Report: The next TSID meeting is April 14th. Nicole will send out the conference call code in the event someone cannot make the meeting, they can still listen in. The TSID Conference is June7-10, 2007, in Irving, TX. Nicole has challenged TSID to encourage students to attend the conference by paying their way. We are a chapter in good standing and have received a combo ticket that we will use to send an interpreter to conference.

Committee Reports

      Professional Development Committee: Has not met, but they have made contact with SARID and are exchanging information.

      Community Service Committee: Decided to offer interpreting services to libraries in the area. They also want to have interpreters volunteer and sponsor events like “Bun Run” or ACL Music Festival.

      Nominating Committee: Met and decided not to submit the list of nominations at this meeting. The list will be ready and submitted 30 days before the next meeting. The .list will also be put on the list serve and in the next news letter. Nicole pointed out the President chooses the committee chairs and the nominating committee does not need to worry about those nominations.

      Student Committee: We discussed the Student Committee supporting a graduation party.

Old Business

Ariane and Naomi will go to the post office and set up an PO Box. Ariane called for a motin to check out both post offices and their prices and accept the lowest. Deborah made the motion, Lisa 2nd. Motion passed.

New Business

We need to always provide interpreters for the workshops. This is something that we need to include in the budget. We also need to set up a cancellation policy.

We informed the general membership about the scholarship competition. Deborah made a motion that people will write articles about why they decided to become an interpreter in their specific field. The articles are to be submitted by May 1. The articles will be sent to Ariane. Ariane will then remove the names from the articles, then submit them to the board for judging. The board will pick two top favorites. One student member and one regular member will be chosen. Jay 2nd. Motion passed.

The board will make a decision about the TSID membership and one year free Ed Sig membership.

Emily made a motion that AID sponsor a party for upcoming graduates and alumni with an amount of $150. Deborah 2nd. Motion passed.

Jay made a motion to close the meeting. Emily 2nd. Motion passed.

The meeting closed at 7:35pm.