Minutes:            GDCCC GENERAL BOARD MEETING

Date:                April 25, 2006

Meeting Place:  Judy Yaker’s home

 

President, Art Thompson, called the meeting to order at 7:35 pm. There were 3 officers, 4 directors, and 5 representatives present.

 

Handouts:

·         Minutes from March 13, 2006 Board meeting

 

Officers’ Report:

·         Secretary:   The minutes from the March 13, 2006 meeting were reviewed and approved.

·         Treasurer:   No report.

 

Directors’ Report:

·         Prints:

The next competition will be May 18 at Livonia.

·         Nature Slide:

The next competition will be September 25 at Motor City.

·         Color Slide:

The next competition will be September 28 at West Oakland.

·         Digital Projection:

The next competition will be April 27 at West Oakland, then May 9 at Windsor.  Dennis currently has entries for April 27 from Toledo, Motor City, Oakland and Windsor, but not Photo Guild and Pontiac.

·         Website:

Nothing new.

 

Old Business:

·         Digital Salon – Can we manage to be ready by February or March?  Should we follow the rules, categories and pricing of other Salons ($7 -$10?

·         DISP – We still need 2 alternate judges for Saturday, September 23.

·         The following proposal was accepted/passed: “Instead of holding 6 Interclub 2¼ Slide Competitions per year, we will hold 1 competition as an end-of-year competition.  All entries will be in the same class.  The limit of 9 entrants per club per competition is removed.  Any member of any GDCCC club will be allowed up to 5 entries.  Awards will be Slide-of-the-Year, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and HMs equal to 25% of the total entries.  Trophies will be awarded for SOY, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, but a maker may only win one trophy.  The other general Slide Competition Rules apply.”  Joanne Snavley will be the director.  She will set up and announce the 2006 once-per-year competition, possibly in conjunction with CS EOY.

 

New Business:

·         Anita recommended that we combine CS and NS competitions because there are fewer clubs and fewer entries.  The Board will decide by November for the 2007 schedule.  (This change would not require an official Board vote.)

·         Susan wants to take over as Print Director starting in January 2007.

 

Next meeting: Thursday, September 7, 2006 (at Judy Yaker’s home).

 

Meeting adjourned at 8:25 pm.

Recorded by John Kroll