Admin. Council Minutes 3/22/2001 
 
Present: Patti Loverink, Kymm Nelsen, Robin Schuckmann, Jim Slaight, Greg Vogel, Debbie Layton, 
Christine Champeaux, Rachel Houghton, Christy Graunke. 
 
* Competition banquet: Great job Christine and Rachel! 
Suggestions for next year include: 
- holding the banquet in January, and combining it with the holiday social event to reduce chapter costs and 
keep the momentum going 
- having an entry drop-off at the Region 7 conference 
- implementing more judging training (and possibly including student observer judges) 
- dropping or revitalizing the Technical Art competition 
- recruiting a volunteer to assist for next year (and take over the following year); Christine and Rachel will 
create a competition handbook 
- Christine also suggested buying a raffle box for program meetings 
 
* Entry-level SIG: had over 50 attendees, made about $59, but this year's costs included printing enough 
workbooks for next time as well.  Had penalty from Pavillion for not estimating enough vegetarian lunches 
in advance. 
 
* Online SIG: no March meeting, next meeting on April 17 
 
* Contractors' SIG: looking for new leaders for next year--might need to do a survey to see if another 
time/place would be better to increase membership 
 
* Volunteer report: please report back to Jim when you find a place for a volunteer so he knows where 
people end up; lots of potential volunteers from PSU 
 
* Elections for next year: need to start thinking about possible recruits and possibility of online voting--
send ideas to Kymm 
 
* Treasurer's report: checking balance is $15,293; money market balance is $5,045; received $240 Web site 
grant from national; still haven't received conference seed money 
 
* Web site should move to its new host by April 1. 
 
* Newsletter: next issue (on editing) will go out in 2 weeks, probably without lead article. 
 
* Chapter archives: Debbie will get together with long-time member Joel Ramey soon. 
 
* Jobs list: Greg has info on employment booth at national conference--should be posted on our web site; 
discussed excluding non-members from jobs list 
 
* Chicago conference: Rachel will coordinate list of local attendees 
 
* Membership directory--status? Suggested including job titles this year in addition to names and contact 
info 
 
* Publicity: Christy got first non-profit mailing through the Beaverton post office on 2/22--should be 
arriving in mailboxes soon after. Bulk mailing process took about 6-8 hours of additional work--need to 
research sorting software to make things more efficient. Saved $75 over first class mail. (About 50%.) 
 
* Senior member survey--need to find a way to get this distributed. 
 
* Kymm has a list of possible items for volunteer thank-yous. Need to know how much to spend.   (Prices 
range from approximately $700-$1600.)