MINUTES: GDCCC GENERAL BOARD MEETING

DATE: September 11, 2000

MEETING PLACE: MOODY-WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY

The President, Bill Buchanan, called the meeting to order at 7:37 p.m. There were 3 officers, 5 directors and 10 delegates present (2 of those 10 delegates were also officers or directors).

Handouts:

• none

Officer's Report:

• Secretary: The minutes from the May 18^th meeting were reviewed and approved.
• Treasurer: The Treasurer reported a balance of $3664

Director's Reports:

• Print: The next competition will be September 20^th at Shutterbug.
• Color Slide: The next competitions will be September 28^th at West Oakland and October 18 at Shutterbug.
• Nature Slide: The next competition will be September 25^th at Motor City.
• 2¼ Slide: The next competitions will be September 28^th at West Oakland, October 18 at Shutterbug and November 9 at Livonia. The replacement projector Art brought in last time will not work. We will continue using the old one.
• Electronic Imaging: The next competition will be September 25^th at Motor City. There are more prints entered every competition but slide entries are still low.
• Newsletter: Since the only news to share was about the International Salon, no issue was printed in August.

2000 Slide Invitational:

• No new information.
• Next year's Slide Invitational is to be hosted by The Photo Guild.

Old Business:

• Detroit International Salon: Many people report they didn't receive entry forms from the original mailing and had to request them through email. 200 Color slide entries so far. No ads have been sold for the book.
• Adray Show: Nothing to report.
• New score box system: Two are left to be picked up. One belongs to council for print division - Alex Lane will take it tonight. The other is for Avon. Jim will bring in payment and pick up the unit at that time.

New Business:

• GDCCC web site: We own GDCCC.org. Set up cost was $50 for two years. The domain name is now pointed to that web site. Since free sites were limited to 16 mg, which is not sufficient for council needs, alternates were researched. Burlee.com was recommended, with a $12.95/month fee for 1 year sign-up. That cost plus one year of monthly fees was paid in advance by John Kroll. Newsletter information will be included in a new format on the web site and could save the cost of postage for those who have Internet access. Council News will continue to be printed with a possible reduction in number printed if members are satisfied to receive it over the net instead. The web site account also includes 25 email addresses. We need to decide how to use them, possibly one to each division, president, record-keeper, etc. John will coordinate web-master duties with Howard and Judy and will transfer the current main page information to the new site. The new site includes a page for each club within council with meeting dates, president and other pertinent information. Additional information will be included as clubs present it. Future minutes will be posted to the site. Judy suggested we put in people's wins either for the year or cumulative on the site as well. Concern was expressed that those records don't belong in the public domain. There is a possibility of having some pages require a password that would eliminate some concern. Dennis Sauve noted that through mapquest.com you can get maps to each club meeting location and tie it to the web site. John will look into finding number of hits and other reports once the site is fully operational. Once the site has been operational for at least a month, the service will send our name in to 250 search engines.
• PSA Comments: Alex Lane commented that PSA Conference has only print division, no separation for how the prints were made. A conversation with the Director of Nature at PSA hand of man issue allows some judicious use of hand of man - i.e. Barn swallow in nest in barn, wild peregrine falcon nesting in the city. Other comments noted that PSA will mark a picture down if the hand of man is obtrusive. PSA also had two categories: one of nature, one of authenticated wildlife.
• New officers in clubs: Windsor's new president is Dennis Sauve. Please send notices of any officer changes to me at jkroll@bignet.net.
• Notice: Judy announced that she will no longer take money for membership and do labels as of January 2000. Nominations for officers and directors at large will also be needed for (President, First Vice-President and Treasurer and two directors at large). We will need to discuss this at the October meeting and hold the election at November meeting.
• Banquet 2001: Banquet 2001 will be done by Grosse Pointe. Mike Florian reported the banquet will be held at Macomb Community College on January 20 which avoids both Martin Luther King Day and the Super Bowl. There are no liquor sales allowed, so those who desire alcohol bring their own. Tickets are needed by the November meeting.
• Honors Committee: The Honors Committee needs to be appointed. Art Thompson will send out information to the six clubs to get the committee going this year. Duties listed in the constitution were reviewed.
• Honors: Bob Hart was presented with the Styvesent Peabody Award at PSA. Andy Wims is chairman of awards committee and presented the award at opening ceremonies. Bill Buchanan accepted the chairmanship of the PSA nominating committee.
• Announcements: The PSA Bulletin contest has been cancelled for this year due to Margaret's serious illness. She is recovering and was awarded Honorary PSA. Kenny Rhee from Grosse Pointe Camera Club suffered a stroke in late June and is no longer able to compete. Note: when something serious happens to a club member, be sure to let John or someone know so the news can be shared and cards sent.

Next two meetings:

• Tuesday, October 24^th at 7:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, November 29^th at 7:30 p.m.

Meeting adjourned at 8:38 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Diane Kroll, GDCCC Secretary