STCWVC Admin Council Meeting
Meeting Day/Time/Location: 3rd Thursday of each month, 6:15-8pm, Greenwood
Gardens, 1st floor conference room.

10/23/2003, Convened: 6:16pm

Attendance: Rachel Houghton, , Len Humbird, , Russell Pike, Maralee Sauter, 
Marie Kate Campbell, Wyn Bowler, Theresa Shelton, Christie Graunke, Ashie 
Malloy-Obradobic

Last month’s meeting minutes approved and seconded.

Dates for Nov/Dec meetings: Dec meeting will be on Dec 11th.

Treasurer’s report: (RP – separate sheet)
$300 profit from the Oct meeting. 

Facilities Report (MS)
$25 for non-members, $5 for members. 50 people attendance expected. No-host 
bar, free parking at the Malloy.
PCC auditorium rent is $112. Food will be in a different room (rm 1524). 
Several possible new locations investigated. No locations favored yet. 
No sites planned for next year. 
Jean has speakers lined up for next 6 months. 

Volunteer Opportunities (MKC)
Current openings: Pubs manager, Pubs assistant, Competition manager. RH is 
filling in on the pubs manager. RH to give MCK job description text. 
TS: The position of Assistant hospitality manager is open. Skip Martin 
would like to step-down. Requirements: Attend meetings to take money, 
write receipts, hand out nametags, etc. 

Website (WB)
- Survey is up. Will stay up for 10 days (till Sunday)
- Meeting with Kim to strategize major upgrades.
- Currently paying $240/yr for web hosting. Will look into switching to 
easystreet.com for non-profit discount. 

Zoomerang (Tom White not present; report distributed; attached):
Worked with Maralee to launch the evaluation survey for October's
chapter meeting: "The Science of Designing and Conducting Effective 
Meetings." There were 9 respondents, offering varied comments. 
Anyone on the admin council may view the survey responses at this 
URL and password:
   URL: http://www.zoomerang.com/reports/public_report.zgi?ID=4NTHSHC8RCXG
   PASSWORD: meetings

Prepared a preliminary proposal for a chapter salary/rates and employment 
survey (see attached) with a targeted launch date of November 15. I would 
welcome feedback from any of you who might have an interest in this 
survey. A few caveats: 

*  These questions are preliminary, so the exact questions or wording
    is not yet completed. 

*  Although we could add questions, it is important to keep the survey 
   short and focused. Too long, and it will be daunting for members to 
   respond. 

*  Questions, as well as suggested changes or additions, are subject to
   being revised as might be appropriate to make answers to questions 
   easier to analyze or quantify. [For example, asking "What kind of work
   do you do?" is really pretty broad. It is better to give people multiple 
   choice questions than open-ended ones if we want to be able to 
   categorize a question's response.]

RH: proposed salary survey discussed. Send comments to the admin list or 
to RH. This is a local survey; not for national compilation. 

SR Member Breakfast: (Patti Loverink – separate report emailed; attached)
o. The Senior Member breakfast is scheduled for 11/6 at 7:15 AM at the 
Greenwood Inn. This breakfast is open to Sr. Members and the elected 
officers. Sr. Members are being asked to contribute $5 to this breakfast 
to help reduce our costs.
 
o. At the breakfast, I'll ask for volunteers for the 2003-2004 Sr. Member 
Advisory Panel. I'll follow up via email with an invitation for people to 
participate. While we don't have an agenda for the Panel, we should have 
one in place in case something comes up.

Competition (CG)
60 entries; 26 judges – 1st meeting next Thurs. 6-7pm. Took in $3,375 last 
year’s competition. Dec 6th is when they turn in their forms. 

Employment (printed, will be distributed on admin list)

Newsletter (no report filed)

Hospitality (TS)
Last meeting: 17 members, 10 non-members. 

Chancellor of Ed (GR absent – no report filed)

Photo (Debbie Layton – not present)

Misc: 
Admin council personnel introductions – for Wyn, who is new to the meetings. 

Adjourned at 7:35 pm.