2009+Board+Meeting+Minutes

**Mount** **Mary College** ** August 7, 2009 ** **Present:** Linda Barrington, Jo Christianson, Karen Corlyn, Deb Dosemagen, Lynn Grimm, Bonnie Scholz, Maggie Schultz, **Not present:** George Affeldt, Matt Friedl, Meg Graham, Sheila Kohl, Vicky Voelker ** Guests **: Bill Hurley, Ron Jetty President Bonnie Scholz called the meeting to order at 10:10 a.m. by having people introduce themselves  1. ** Minutes ** of the July 30, 2008 board meeting were approved.  2. ** Treasurer’s Report **– Lynn Grimm created a treasury binder for each succeeding treasurer. She gave an oral summary of financial activities for the past year. Current balance $525.62 in checking and $5.00 in savings. Linda suggested putting the report in writing for next year. Linda Barrington is submitting the paperwork for our yearly filing as a nonprofit corporation  3. ** New Business ** Karen Corlyn moved that we keep the current WNBN site up while transitioning to the new page on the WEAC website. Motion failed for lack of a second. Jo moved that once the transition is complete, the WEAC website will become the WNBN source of information. Deb seconded the motion, which passed by a vote of 6-1.  4. ** Old ** ** Business ** Maggie Fischer moved to amend the by-laws so that the past president will become an ex-officio member who can break tie votes and establish a quorum. Deb Dosemagen seconded. Motion passed. Bonnie moved and Jo seconded to extend Deb’s turn through 2010. Motion passed. Jo moved and Lynn seconded that vice-president become the president-elect and the chronological succession of leadership should be: president-elect, president, past president. Motion passed.  5. ** Election of new officers **. 2009-2010 Board of Directors: This will be postponed until the general meeting after the new board members are elected. The rest of agenda (old business and visioning and planning) was postponed to the annual meeting in the afternoon. The meeting adjourned at 11:54 a.m.   Respectfully submitted, Linda Barrington, WNBN Secretary
 * Minutes for Board Meeting **
 * **New Website Project** – Bill Hurley of WEAC is managing WEAC’s National Board web page which was launched in February. He said it’s an introductory webpage: [|www.weac.org/wnbn] . Sheila Kohl is working with him on this. If we want anything posted there, we should send it to Sheila so she can post it.
 * N**etwork pages** - NEA has an arrangement with Groupsite for privacy, so that WNBN can have it as a social networking. It’s more than just a website because it offers file sharing, collaboration, blogs, etc. Sheila is working at developing this site. We need to decide who will be given permission to access to the site. Bill videotaped NBCTs at the Summer Academy last week and we now have four videos to post.
 * ** Review of By-Laws ** - Bonnie expressed a concern that board members serve only two years, yet board members are supposed to rotate terms every three years. Lynn Grimm moved to amend the by-laws to provide three-year terms. Maggie seconded. The motion passed unanimously (seven people, a majority of the board). Lynn moved that Barrington, Christianson, Kohl and Fischer extend terms to 2011. Deb seconded. The motion passed.