Minutes
– Executive Committee
Date: September 28, 2006
Attending: Andy Shine, Steve Gleich,
Tim Dalton, Harvey Hirsch, Paul Lamendola, Jack Blewitt, Sheila Blewitt, Mario Benevenuti, Bill Van Jura.
President
Tim Dalton called the meeting to order at 7:05 P.M.
President’s
Report: President Dalton shared his excitement on the
number of reservations already received for our October program. He reported on his speaking with numerous
other Craftsmen chapters that had been uncertain about their continued
affiliation with IAPHC. President Dalton
noted that many of these chapters have elected to maintain their IAPHC associations
despite recent dues increases. In
addition to the many benefits IAPHC membership affords, our new AGC association
will also entitle members to many attractive
benefits. A package outlining these
benefits will soon be available.
Treasurer’s
Report: A report was submitted by
Marty Levinson and accepted by the board.
Membership Report:
Jack
and Sheila Blewitt presented a listing of member
profiles. This detailed information will
be extremely helpful as we seek to improve our current database.
Education/Scholarship Report: President Dalton reported that our AGC education
benefits are now in effect, and they will be communicated to our membership via
some combination of email and/or mailing.
Bill Van Jura suggested we explore whether to earmark scholarship funds
for
Website/Bulletin:
President
Dalton says we can look forward to some changes on our website in the coming
months. He also expressed the need for a
volunteer to assume responsibility for website content.
Programs: The following is a tentative
schedule of programs for the upcoming year:
October 12 - Digital Printing Solutions, will feature several of the
premier equipment manufacturers, including Xerox, Hewlett-Packard and Kodak, as
well as printers discussing how they’ve successfully harnessed the power of
digital printing to grow their business.
November 9 – TBC Color Imaging, will host a tour of
their new digital print facility in
December – Annual Holiday Party (venue to be
determined)
January – International Print Week Celebration,
technical/motivational program, globalization of printing or web to print
solutions, to be coupled with our annual Gallery Awards Presentation. Winners will be announced for our Club’s
logo design competition.
March – JDF (& related topic) April – Environmental
Printing/Papers June – Golf Outing
Publicity: Harvey
Hirsch presented the board with a flyer to promote our NJ Craftsmen Logo
Contest, which will have a Grand Prize of $1000.00 to the winner (budgeted from
education fund). The board approved
several motions that were put forth related to this contest:
·
There will be a fee of $10.00 per entry. The total amount collected in entry fees will
be deposited into the education fund.
·
Entries may be submitted from the entire State of
·
There will be a limitation of 3 entries per entrant.
Old Business:
President
Dalton announced that going forward all board meeting are to be held on the
fourth Thursday of each month. This
change allows board members to schedule well in advance,
and hopefully will encourage more of our general membership to attend meetings,
as this schedule will be posted for everyone.
New Business:
The
board had previously decided it would accept no more than a $10.00 per member
increase in IAPHC annual dues. President
Dalton was pleased to report that IAPHC has agreed to adjust the amount of our
NJ Chapter dues increase to meet with our satisfaction.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:30PM