Minutes of GAZeL Board Meeting -- June 25, 2009
Minutes of the GAZeL Board Meeting
June 25, 2009
Alex called the meeting to order at 12:08 PM. Those attending were Alex, Michele, Steve, Bobbie, Sharon, Bill Perry and Alisa Phillips. Alex thanked Cox Communications for allowing us the use of the audio bridge.
iLinc: Steve gave this report. The training to use iLinc at our networking meetings will be held on July 7, 2009 from 3:00 PM -4:30 PM. This will be on line and using the audio bridge from Cox. The training will be done by Curtis Lewis. It is a basic instruction for users and assistants.
Bill Perry gave an overview of proposals that might be available to GAZeL. There are three types of proposals; these are State, Federal and Foundation. At this time we might have to team with a University, Community College or some other entity. We asked him to continue to look for a grant that would be appropriate for the goals of GAZeL. He assured us that he does not charge for his research or the time he takes to write the proposal unless we actually get the money. Then he would be paid from the grant money.
The August 20, 2009 networking event is in place for the Flypaper presentation with ABLE as the sponsor. It is in the conference room on the 3rd floor of SkySong. The next scheduled event is on October 29th, 2009 and ABLE is presenting. This is also at SkySong, but in the 2nd floor conference room. We thank Paul Skiera for scheduling these rooms for us free of charge. The first flyer goes our tomorrow, Friday, June 26th for the Flypaper presentation.
Steve Peters has made a proposal to the GAZeL board of directors. GAZeL has many things that need to be overseen, such as renewal of the website, events, virtual conferences etc. Steve has proposed that if he could get sponsors to help us with contributions of $1000 on a monthly basis he could accomplish this and the money would be his stipend. Alex pointed out that we are not clear on where we are going and the sponsors would have to give more that $1000 a month in order to cover our other expenses. He suggested we work on updating the Strategic plan and improve the website so it can move into Drupal 6 before we hire a consultant. We did not have a quorum so we could not vote on anything.
Alisa asked for some direction on what to do next. She said the CRM is working properly and she feels that if it can be at the level of Drupal 6 we can link to Twitter and other similar sites. It was decided to wait until the website committee gives final recommendations.
The meeting was adjourned at 1:00. The next Executive Committee meeting is at12:00 Noon on Thursday, July 9th and the Board meeting will be at 12:00 Noon on Thursday, July 23, 2009.
Tags: - Arizona SciTech Festival Jan. - Mar. 2012(Event)(Now)
- GAZeL Events Committee Feb. 9, 2012(Event)(2 days)
- GazeL Board Meeting Feb, 16, 2012(Event)(9 days)
- GAZeL eLearning Networking Event Feb. 22, 2012(Event)(15 days)
