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Attending: Alex, Bobbie, Casey, Richard, Steve, Michele, Cindy, Tim, Alex and Maggie

Meeting was called to order at 12:03.

Maggie thanked Cox for providing us our audio bridge and people for attending.

 Agenda Items:

Officer Nominations

Bobbie: The slate for officers for 2009 appears at: http://gazel.org/board. Note, that Bobbie will switch Treasurer and Secretary duties with Casey. The nomination committee has received acceptance from all members except from Doug Barnard (who declined).

Board Member and Officer Nominations - Casey/ Bobbie

GAZeL Nominating Committee Results as reported by Bobbie

Alex Devereux will continue as President

Dr. Margaret “Maggie” Martinez will continue as Vice President

Dr. Barbara “Bobbie” Kraver nominated for Secretary

Casey Sparrow nominated for Treasurer

Kelley Graham nominated to stay on the Board

Steve Peters nominated as member at large

Richard Brincefield nominated as member at large

Ted Christensen nominated as member at large

Michael Cohen will stay on Board and is on conference committee

Tim Dosemagen will stay on Board and is on conference committee

Bob Rosenberg will stay on Board

Sheri Schmeckpeper will stay on Board and continue the Insights Newsletter

Michelle Smith will stay on Board and will be membership chairman

Joel Barthelemy nominated to stay on board

Craig Ward nominated to stay on board

Cindy Saint is new on Board 

Brad Bothe is new on the Board

Sher Downing, Faith Heese and Francine still to be contacted.

A discussion ensued about whether to invite Microsoft to have a representative on the Board.  It was decided to invite them.  Joel will contact Steve about whom to talk to.

 Networking/Conference Events: October 22 at Pearson 23 people registered as of now.

Cindy discussed what to expect at the event and asked what we wanted to see specifically and Alex had a couple suggestions.

CEO Breakfast  - Jan 14^th at the AZ Club, Bobbie laid out a proposed program.

Conference Events – Bobbie  Committee Audio Meeting Oct 14^th at 5pm

Had a discussion about having it at the Mesa Convention Center.  Nobody objected and several spoke in favor.  Then Tim spoke up about having a virtual conference similar to the TED website.  That was discussed and will be discussed further at the Conference Committee Meeting on the 14^th.

Membership Drive Status Michele gave update.  Maggie gave her all the previous work  she and Sherrie had done.  At their committee meeting is was decided there were 3 main points.

1.  Look at defined levels and get a list of people at each level.

2.  CRM Database  Alisha has cleaned the database.  It will comprise our membership list

3.  Have a marketing presence at any events we sponsor or that we attend.

Michele then asked for comments.  Casey noted that some of the Directors questioned paying membership dues and contributing their time and efforts.   Michele mentioned that this was part of 6 smaller points of discussion.

Steve pointed out that we should have a written handout that states what we do and what

we propose to do for members for their dues and sponsorships.   Michele will send the Membership Matrix to all the Board Members.  Then we will have a specific meeting to discuss this. 

Next Board of Directors Meeting October 23^rd at noon.

Board members are invited to submit ideas to the GAZeL Insights Newsletter at: http://gazel.org/insights. 

Thanks to all the Board members who attended.

Meeting adjourned 1:32.