COMMUNICATIONS & ELECTRONICS MUSEUM 95 Craftsman Blvd, Highway 2, Kingston East
1. Call to order:
The meeting was called to order at10:00 am.
2. Roll Call of officers:
In attendance:
President:
Ron Henderson Vice President Admin: Barbara Fagg Vice president Ops: Vacant Treasurer:
Doris Potter Secretary:
Bill Wornes Past President: Ron Aquino Health & Benefits Director Arliss Berry Membership Director: Donna Henderson Communications Director: Luc Bujold Phone Committee: George and Annie Healey Director at Large: Real Prefontaine Director at Large: Walter Veley Director at Large: Noel Coward
Regrets/Absent:
Jim Spencer Marlyn Convery Peter Convery
3. Approval of the agenda:
Approved as presented.
4. Minutes of the last meeting:
(a) Omissions and
errors: Nil (b) Discussion: Nil
(c) Motion: Propose by Luc Bujold and seconded by Donna Henderson that the minutes be approved as presented. CARRIED
5. Business arising from the minutes:
Nil
6. Treasurers report:
The
branch is in a strong financial position and a payment of $3,502.56 is
due to National Headquarters. The balance of unencumbered funds
stands at $16,962.51. A full report is attached to the file copy of
these minutes. A Readers Statement will be presented to the AGM in
April; an audit committee will be formed to scrutinize the Branch
accounts.
7. Communications and Bills:
A
request for support of the Military Families Resource Center is
anticipated. The consensus was positive and this will be looked
at later in the meeting.
8. Reports of officers and committees:
President: Nil report.
Vice president, Admin: Nil report.
Vice president, Ops: Position vacant.
Past President: Ron is looking for volunteers to serve on next year's Board of Directors.
Treasurer: See para 6. above
Membership: We
have picked up 300 members since our last report. Our total
membership is now 3648. A full report is attaced to the file copy
of these minutes.
Health and benefits:
Two calls were received of a general nature. Training session for
Health and Benefits officers are being planned for the future.
Directors and committees:
Telephone committee:
Calling for the February outreach in Brockville is going well.
There has been a good response so far. Annie has purchased
novelty items and table decorations.
Recruiting:Nil report.
Communications: Branch
report items must be in to Luc by 23 January. Luc suggested that
we set up an e-mailing system so that a straightforward method exists
to pass information to and from members between branch reports.
Directors at Large:
Walter Veley: Has changed his e-mail address to wveley@gmail.com
Real Prefontaine: He has volunteered to serve on the audit committee
Secretary: Nil report
9. Unfinished business:
Nil
10. New Business:
(a) 30 day plan:
Winter
outreach, 10 February 2009, CJ’s Brockville. Phone calling continues.
(b) 60 day plan:
Final wrap-up for the AGM is
to be completed and the Audit committee to prepare a report.The budget for ’09 is to be prepared for
presentation to the AGM.
(c) 90 days and beyond:
The final outreach plan for 2009 is yet to be completed.
(d) Other Business:
Barb
Fagg asked what arrangements have been made to pay honoraria to the ANAF Club
and the C&E Museum for hosting us.We will confirm that ANAF is paid as arranged with our thanks.Proposed by Barb and seconded by Walter that
a donation of $50.00 per meeting be paid to the C&E Museum every
quarter.CARRIED.
Proposed by Barb Fagg and
seconded by Ron Aquino that we support the Military Family Resource center with
an ad in their newspaper supplement in an amount not to exceed $300.00.CARRIED
11. Next meeting:
The next board meeting will be 10:00am, 19 February 2009 at the Military Communications and Electronics Museum
