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CSI Central Missouri

CSI Central Missouri Chapter Board Meeting
August 27, 2002

The Board Meeting was held on August 27, 2002 at 6:00 PM at the Columbia Country Club, in Columbia, Missouri. Attending the meeting were:

Scott Dressel, Jim Cooley, Brice Moeller, Jerry Thompson, Mark Schultz, John McGrath, John Murray, Bob Drainer, Willie Sandin, Greg Wack

The meeting was called to order by Jim Cooley (Scott was running late)

Greg Wack passed out copies of the meeting minutes from the last Board Meeting held on June 27, 2002. The only comment was concerning The Award Form submitted by Dennis Cotter. Brice clarified that he had requested Dennis submit the necessary Forms to the Region to recognize one of our members. The meeting minutes were then approved.

Bob Drainer submitted the Treasures Report. Below is a brief summary:

Beginning Balance $10,414.07
August Deposits $10,940.00
August checks ($12,316.45)
CD $6,000.00
Ending Balance $15,037.62

A brief discussion followed concerning the proceeds of the Golf Tournament. It was decided to wait and let Maggie Lewis report on this event. The Treasures report was approved.

Membership Report. Willie Sandin passed around a membership roster that he got from CSI Website yesterday. This roster shows that we have 56 members. Scott indicated that one of his goals for this year was to increase membership.

Programs/Education Committee Report. Scott reported for Brad Copeland that the program for the next Breakfast meeting will be Bill McHugh, NCR Institute Director for Chicago who will give our chapter an update on "What's Going On with CSI" and the CSI University. Currently we have no programs for October, November, December, January and February. Scott will be pushing Brad to get good quality programs lined up even if we have to pay for a program and speaker. It is a key for good attendance, that we have quality, diverse programs.

By- Laws Committee. No Report, however, Scott said he found a copy of the original by-laws and they have to be updated. He will make copies and pass out at the next Board Meeting.

NewsLetter Committee: No Report. A general discussion about continuing to send out the newsletter as we have always done or if we want to put the newsletter on the Chapter Website. This issue was tabled until we could discuss with Susan Hart.

Awards Committee: There was not report from John McGrath. Scott said that he will get with John and brief him of his role as the Awards Committee Chair.

Certification Committee: Scott reported that our Chapter on one of the few Chapters in the Country who achieved the national goal with respect to Certification Testing.

Website/Technical Committee: Willie Sandin reported that the Chapter Website is up and running. The Website has also been updated with the list of Officers and Board Member. The meeting minutes for both the last Board Meeting and Regular Meeting are also posted on the Website. General discussion followed concerning the use of the Website. Some items include:

  1. CSI Chapter Members information. Some don't want e-mail addresses etc. to avoid junk mail etc and possible links to their businesses. A survey will be developed and sent to all members concerning the privacy issues. It was decided that for now, we will just have a listing of our Chapter members names on the Website.
  2. The Website is updated once a month. The deadline to have information to Willie Sandin is the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
  3. Include a new member profile on the Website.
  4. Include Newsletter on the Website.
Product Show/Golf Tournament: Maggie was not in attendance to give an update on the Golf Tournament. Jim Cooley is looking at October 22, 23 or 24th for the next Mini Product Show. This show will be held in Columbia. He is looking at expanding the number of vendors from 10 to possibly 15. If this happens, we will need to find someplace else besides the Pasta Factory to hold the Product Show. Jim will follow up on this also.

Old Business: None

New Business:
  1. Scott submitted to the Board his receipts for attending the National Conference in June in Las Vegas. The Board approved the reimbursement. The total was $984.00. Bob Drainer wrote the check.
  2. General Discussion about reimbursement followed concerning future reimbursements for those CSI Member attending any National or Regional Conference. This will be looked at and updated in the by-laws.
  3. Strategic Planning: The group spent some time discussing the strategic plan for our chapter. We looked at a mission statement and several key bullet items were addressed:
  • Quality Programs
  • Increased Membership
Strategic Plan and a Mission statement will be finalized over the next several board meetings. The meeting adjourned at approximately 8:30 PM

The next Board Meeting will be on Tuesday, September 24 at the Offices of Triple B Doors in Columbia. All future Board Meetings will be held on the last Tuesday of Each Month alternating between Triple B Doors in Columbia and the Simpson State Office Building in Jefferson City.