Admin Council Minutes May 24, 2001
Present: Phyllis Thompson, Patti Loverink, Jon Harvey, Christy Graunke, Kymm
Nelsen, Jeff Jansen, Robin Schuckmann, Kate Evans
* The April minutes were approved.
* We discussed the arrangements for the end of the year party: Mark
Hannigan's plans, volunteer thank you letters, etc.
* Christy discussed her publicity goals for next year. We finally have a 
nonprofit insignia.
* We will not meet in July.
* Kymm presented an idea for an August meeting with Jeffrey Zeldman, a
writer/Web guru. We may want to help co-sponsor a Zeldman talk/conference 
with a multimedia/Internet development group. Kymm will find out more 
details.
* Jeff Jansen reported we have $11,504.72.
* Robin is meeting with a group of newsletter volunteers next week. The
deadline for the next e-zine, an issue on tools, is June 15th. In order to be 
in the STC competition we would need to publish six, not our current four, 
issues per year.
* Phyllis reported we have 35 responses to the senior survey. We will
analyze them for trends. We also discussed whether to have a print or an 
online/CD membership directory. We need to check the CD cost.
* Question: we are still missing our conference seed money.
* Jon Harvey asked about having greeters and an STC sign above the door at 
program meetings. We may need another table and two more volunteers at the 
more popular meetings. We talked about an STC stamp for receipts.
* Mark Colemen is interested in starting a marketing communications SIG. We 
approved.
* Rose Hill will have the next ELSIG in October.
* Rachel (in absentia) presented conference and competition reports: I
attended Leadership Day Seminar and went to two sessions: " Planning your STC 
Year" and "Motivating your Volunteers". The first session, hosted by Andrea 
Ames and Ellen Fenwick, provided a handout on priorities in planning chapter 
events. The second session discussed getting, motivating and retaining (as 
well as firing) your volunteers. I also attended a Competition Meeting. There 
will be quite a few changes at the international level competition. Andrea 
Ames is now the "Assistant to the President" for Recognitions and is the main 
resource to contact for competition questions (after our Director Sponsor). 
In addition I also attended "Hosting a Regional or Chapter Level Conference" 
and "The Marathon of Chapter Presidency".**Christine and I met with Susan 
Mellinger to explain the timeline of the competition, as well as the 
description of the necessary functions to make the competition run smoothly. 
Christine has almost completed the Chapter Competition Handbook first draft. 
Susan is my official Manager in Training for next year's competition. We have 
identified a few key positions and will be pulling together our team for the 
upcoming year. I have filled out the form for national STC (to get our info 
into Intercom). Upcoming summer duties: recruit judges, recruit an entry 
management team, plan out "drop-out" for entries at Regional Conference, and 
identify banquet sites.
* We need a new Web manager and assistant by the end of June.
* Phyllis will send a letter to folks who have let their membership lapse.
* We are contributing $500 to Dove Lewis in Margot Beutler's name.
* Kymm will contact Dave about an In Focus projector.
* We adjourned at 7:30.