ATTENDEES: Jeff Goldenberg, Elise Esper, Nancy Johnson, Robin Malik-Swisher, Jerry Gunderson , Rick Seifert, Marge Olson Absent: Ann Johnson, Denice McMahon, Marcia Aamodt (Advisor)

Financial Update – Rick gave us the income statement for the first two quarters of our fiscal calendar. We are in good shape. We have final figures for the Minnesota State Conference last September. We had a profit of $12,250.00 after splitting it with IHRIM group.

Conference – Elise is looking for volunteers for this year’s conference committee. As a group we talked about the great response that we received form the vendor fair. Elise will get out letters to last year’s vendor participants letting them know about the upcoming conference in October and that we would like their participation for this year’s event. Robin will mention at our February meeting that we are looking for those people in our membership that would be interested in helping out.

Membership – The August through December renewal notices have been sent out. We have gotten about a 50% response. We talked about how long to keep those without responses on our membership database. Elise Motioned to have them dropped after 6 months of no response, and Jerry seconded it. We have had 29 new members, and in total we are down about 45 or 50 members. We talked about updating our membership brochure for the hard copy. The web page has an updated version with our new price included. Marge will check with Gail Koch to see if she has a copy of the old brochure that we used to make our changes on for printing and determine which vendor we are ordering through.

Board position opened for Secretary – Nancy is too busy at work with Implementation of a new payroll system so she has to step down from her responsibilities. We will have Denise put a notice on the Web that we are looking for someone to fill this position. Robin has asked each of us if we know of anyone that might be interested. Jerry had one person that he thought of. He mentioned that he would ask them if they were interested.

Chapter of the Year Pictorial – Ann is looking for some help with this. She will contact us and let us know what help is needed and when it needs to be done.

Programs for 2000 – Jeff put together a list of monthly program topics for this year. We discussed each topic and gave suggestions for possible speakers and gave our input on the topics. Jeff will update this for our meeting in February. We would like to get this list posted on the Web for our members.

Out State Members – Robin brought up the topic - What can we do for our members that are outside the metro area? Rick will check our database and with the APA to see where there is a large amount of members. We talked about putting together a half day or full day recap of our monthly meeting topics for them and planning a Saturday session. Elise mentioned that she would check with SHIRM to see what they do for their members outside of the metro area.

Web page. The rate for the web page administration is increasing from $50.00 per hour to $65.00 per hour. Denise has a proposed contract with Joel Baglien through May, 2000 to continue updating our web page. Robin mentioned that she would like some added items to continue this. We would like to get things updated timely, such as our monthly meeting notices etc. Marge motioned this and Elise seconded it.

Community Service Activities – With the busy schedule for all of our members we talked about four times a year having something that we could do at our monthly meeting, like we have done with the food drive and holiday gift collection. We will mention to our members that if they know of an organization that could use our help to let us know.

Meeting adjourned at 7:40 p.m.