STCWVC Admin Council Minutes 2/28/02
Present: Patti Loverink, Jon Harvey, Ken and Vicki Miller, Debbie Layton,
Robin Schuckmann, Rachel Houghton, Christy Graunke, Jeff Jansen, Phyllis
Thompson, Kate Evans
* Patti briefly discussed how our chapter can interact with the new Rose
City student chapter. Mentorship opportunities would be open to students,
and students may volunteer for our activities, such as the annual
publications competition banquet. We will also invite a student member to
attend our Admin Council meetings. (Patti and Ellen Fenwick met with the
students on Feb. 20th.)
*  We plan to have a larger presence at this year's 2002 Communicators
Conference. We also would like to have more community outreach next year.
*  Robin Schuckmann told us the latest newsletter issue will be ready in two
weeks. The topic for the issue following will be careers and education.
We'll focus on local college programs and ask Maralee Sautter to write about
the student chapter. The article deadline is April 15th with a publication
date target of May 15th. We also asked Christy to write about moving from
being a student to becoming a technical professional.
*  Joel and Jean reported that the Online SIG has 15-20 people per meeting,
and the meetings are going well. E-learning is the topic for the next two
meetings.
*  Patti reported that the next MarComm SIG meeting will be on writing case
studies and white papers, with Ken Strandberg speaking.
*  We discussed the date of the next Entry-Level Getting Started workshop.
Tentatively we're looking at April 20th, depending on Phyllis' schedule.
*  The Single Sourcing SIG will be discussing writing for single sourcing on
3/18.
*  Jeff Jansen reported we have about $10,200 in the bank, but approximately
$2,670 in bills to pay from the Awards banquet. We are expecting approximately 
$10,000 in returns from the Region 7 October Conference to arrive in late April 
or early May.
*  Rachel indicated we have all our activities and paperwork complete for a
chapter achievement award.
*  We discussed our new logo.
*  We talked about the new member orientation from 5-6 March 21st, at the
monthly program meeting. Lance Gelein's program topic is career management,
and his all day workshop on March 22nd is on project management.
*  April 13th we're having a strategic planning session.
*  The chapter now owns a digital camera, and we will be talking about
archiving at the next meeting.
*  We discussed having the End of the Year party June 20th at the City
Grill (formerly Atwaters). A decision has not been finalized.
*  In Sept. 2003 we will be hosting the STC Board of Directors.
*  Margaret Jennings will be our next Chancellor of Education.
*  We reviewed and approved the 2002 revision of our chapter bylaws, sent
them to the Bylaws Committee, and expressed appreciation to Phyllis Thompson
for work well done.
*  Rachel Houghton received the Feb. Volunteer of the Month award for her
outstanding work with the banquet and competition.
*  Our next meeting will be March 28th, and Kate needs aomeone to take
minutes.