Minutes of January 2001 Atlanta Group ExCom Meeting
Date and Time: 02 January 2001 19:00-20:25
Location: Ted Jackson's House
Attendees: Herb Bastin, Karen Hoover, Ted Jackson, Janet Westervelt
Quorum: Present
Agenda: Agreed upon agenda used.
Minutes: The December 2000 minutes were distributed. The following corrections were noted: five people attended the outings leadership class, Steve Ritzman, a guest speaker, gave away posters to encourage people to write letters to President Clinton on Alaska's wilderness. The amended minutes were accepted by acclamation.
Chair: Was not present at the meeting due to recuperation from surgery to have a section of large intestine removed. Janet acting on behalf of Alan for the meeting, though off Atlanta Group ExCom. Alan has the blue-sheets and those need to be turned in right away.
Vice Chair: Hege Lizarralde was not interested in filling the fifth position on the Executive Committee. Mike (last name?) might be interested in becoming the Conservation chair. Kathy Manzel and Claudette Metz did not wish to run. Ted Jackson volunteers to be Vice-Chair for 2001.
Treasurer: There is $4,900 in the checking account. Pax World Fund investments has a balance of $7,450. Total assets of about $12,600. Dues for the second and third quarters in 2000 were transferred to the group. Income and expenses just about matched at the end of 2000 (-$80 difference), both exceeded budgeted amounts. Herb needs to conduct an inventory of the store before financial records can be audited.
Conservation: Janet relayed that Bryan Hager called to put together a meeting in March. Outreach will be a zip-code specific list to invite people to attend a meeting on three issues: (1) water, (2) car-less neighborhoods, (3) urban sprawl. There will be a planning meeting at the Chapter office within two weeks.
AdoptStream: No Adopt-a-Stream monitoring was done on December 16 for chemical analysis. January 27 will be the next chemical and biological monitoring date, which also happens to be the Chapter ExCom date.
Legislative: No report.
Outings: No report. No outings done.
One Club: The One Club handbook has not been started by Herb (now working part-time at Radio Shack). Herb has not had much opportunity as his start-up business is doing well. Herb will endeavor to have the handbook well established by February.
Membership: No report.
Store: Herb reported that December sales were better than November sales. He should have the inventory done this week. Sierra Club calendars will be discounted to $8 each (wall or engagement) this month. Earth Day T-shirts drastically discounted to $2 each (only 10-15 left). Herb is thinking about a T-shirt design change. We need to do more booth events, as items like the Rainforest T-shirts move well at external events. Jim Morris Designs have been used in the past and sell well. Clarence Wilson sold five sets of calendars and took three more sets.
Web Page: Ted reported that the web site has been updated to include a national membership online sign-up form. No other group or the Chapter websites are using the updated pricing or common membership sign-up yet.
Program: April and beyond are open. Randall White and his wife live in the Candler Park area and might be interested in describing a communal living area. Eustis Conway owns about 1,000 acres near Boone, NC and would love to have Sierra Club do an outing there. It would cost $120 per person for two nights in a primitive camp area (no water, electricity). A project to fix-up the Turtle Island Preserve was envisioned. Karen Hoover would get refreshments for the January meeting.
Newsletter: The next deadline is early February. Erin wants to have Outings as a focus for the next issue.
Special Events: Need to plan for the special events in the spring (Dogwood Festival - 2nd weekend in April, Inman Park Festival - 4th weekend in April). The canopy we bought is still at the Chapter office.
New Items: The group decided to develop a questionnaire to gauge interest of the members. Questions included: Items to buy at the store, how to purchase items, topics or speakers, conservation issues interest, active involvement with conservation issues, Carolyn Weber is resigning at the end of the year. Ted would develop the survey. The location of the next Atlanta Group ExCom meeting will be at Ted's house starting at 7:00 pm.
Last updated: 20 Jan 01