Minutes:            GDCCC GENERAL BOARD MEETING

Date:                February 1, 2007

Meeting Place:  Judy Yaker’s home

 

President Mike Florian called the meeting to order at 7:25 pm. There were 5 officers, 4 directors, and 7 representatives present.

 

Handouts:

·         Minutes from December 6, 2006 meeting

 

Officers’ Report:

·         Secretary:   Minutes from the December 6, 2006 meeting were accepted and approved with one change à Change the Website report from “Absent” to “Nothing to report”.

·         Treasurer:    Loretta wasn’t present.  Skip and Judy reported that the Salon made $2105.21 plus $261.60 for Nature.  EOY 2006 total was $13,723.05.  Art will bring signature cards to the next meeting for Mike and Linda to sign for the bank’s records.

 

Directors’ Report:

·         Prints:

The next competition is at Shutterbug February 7th.  Entries need to be in by 7:00 PM and judging needs to start by 7:30 PM.

·         Color Slide:

The next competition is April 9th at PPS.

·         2¼ Slide:

There were 70 entries and 18 winners for EOY 2006.  We’ll repeat the competition for EOY 2007.

·         Nature Slides:

The next competition is April 9th at PPS.

·         Digital Projection:

The next competition is February 12th at Motor City.  Entry deadline is 02/05/07.

·         Web site:

Submission dates have been added.  ProShow Gold v3 (maintenance upgrade) can create flash files and *.exe files.  Hopefully the 2006 EOY Banquet shows can be put on the web site this weekend.

 

Old Business:

·         Salon – (Ron and Loretta were not present.)  2007 dates, prices, etc. are in the web forms.

·         Banquet – The 2007 EOY Banquet will be at Windsor.  (Because of the need for $100 passports, some people won’t attend.)

-            We’d like to speed up the program.

o        Maybe just read the winners and let them get medals later, but have POY/SOY come up for trophy

o        Use a shorter fade-in/fade-out

o        Don’t do door prizes

o        Start at 5:30 PM / meal at 6:30 PM

-          Dennis’ collage effect was nice

-          Split up the 50/50

-          Want better display of the prints and slide shows

o        Use an auditorium

o        If at Corsi’s, put tables closer to the food tables, move print racks before slide shows, move screen closer to the bar, move chairs closer to the screen

 

New Business:

·         Bill Buchanan will demonstrate virtual Salon judging at the next meeting

·         Brainstorming / Broad Objectives for GDCCC:

-          Increase membership

-          Increase publicity (put flyers at local photo stores?)

-          Run EOY show on local TV station(s) with information about the clubs

-          Put on free presentations

-          Start a new “phone photos” division

·         Clarification of DP Rules – Borders are allowed.

 

Next meeting: Monday, March 12, 2007 (at Judy Yaker’s home).

 

Meeting adjourned at 8:57 pm.

Recorded by John Kroll