Society
of Manufacturing Engineers Chapter 69 Minutes of the Executive Board Meeting September 12, 2007
Technical
Presentation:
September’s
meeting was held at Applied Manufacturing Technologies they had
and
open
house that we were invited to. The meeting was held after a tour and
presentation.
Chairman, John
Dinovski began the meeting at 6:45 p.m.
The meeting began
with introductions.
Meeting
Attendees:
John Dinovski-Chairman, Alan Wolfe-Secretary, Robert Petrach-Membership Chair, Leandro Barajas-Programs Chair, Doug Ruffley-Communication Chair, Paul Drallos-Bulletin Editor, Jack Day, Cheol Lee, Herbert Dobbs, Shelly Shattuck, Steven Parker
Chapter Business
Secretary's
Report
A motion made by Robert Petrach and seconded by Leandro Barajas accepted the May minutes.
Treasurer's
Report
Jack
Wagner was absent. Bob Petrach gave the report and stated we received $362.00
from SME for membership retention, which puts us in the 80-85% range, one dollar
per member.
Membership
Committee:
Bob
explained SME’s funding policy.
There
is a 3-month grace period, however, if you do not renew in
3
months
and then renew, it is as a reinstated member. Therefore,
the
"retained
percentage" is lower so we could end up in the $1 per
member
funding
versus the $2 per member funding.
Retained
members set funding, which equals the number of members at
the
beginning of a period minus the number of those who are no
loner
members
divided by the number of members at the beginning of a
period
time
100 %. If the percent is 80-84.9 the chapter gets $1 time
the
number
of members at the end of the period.
(number of retained plus
the
number of new) If the number is 85-89.9% the chapter gets $2
per
member,
if 90-94.9% it is $3 and if 95% or more it's $4 per
member.
The
key is the multiplier, which is set by the percent range. Someone
whose
membership
expires and is removed after 3 months and then rejoins in
the
fourth
month hurts the retention percentage but not the total
member
number.
Today
we have 354 members. Average
membership age is 50 ½.
Bob has no plans for a Telethon at this time.
(Over)
Programs
Report:
Leandro
Barajas informed us that Amanda Olesky would be the speaker for November.
Leandro
asked for help on finding presenters.
Jack
Day suggest that Paul Drallos give a talk on the new software he
developed.
Herbert
Dobbs said he is not getting the support from his company to give a
presentation.
Communications
Report:
Doug Ruffley asked when the bulletins and meeting remainders should be sent out.
It was decided that bulletin goes out Wednesday the week before the meeting and reminder on Monday of meeting week. Also discussed were ways of getting more email addresses from members. We are missing about 50 members email addresses. This is a Telethon event, post cards or phone calls were talked about using.
Bulletin
Report:
Paul Drallos said it takes a few hours to put the bulletin together plus changes that need to be done. The problem is getting the information to put in bulletin.
Talk of putting advertising in bulletin.
Certification
Report:
Larie Smith was absent.
Old
Business:
More
talk on sending out postcards for members without email
addresses.
Using
cell phones for the Telethon.
Send
Bio’s to Paul for the bulletin.
Summer Social’s.
One
was held at “Hooters.” Bob thanked
One was and outing put together by Jack Wagner at the “Detroit Gun Club”.
Talk about making the Gun Club an annual event.
A good time was had buy all that attended.
New
Business:
The
new website that Elaine Petrach put together looks great.
Talk
of fund raising. Jack Day said the easiest fundraiser would be a “Wine
Tasting.”
Auction
off wines at the end of the tasting.
John
talked about the Southeast Michigan Round Table. They would like each chapter to
have two joint events with other chapters. John would like the Gun Club to be
one of the events.
The
meeting was adjourned at 8:00pm by a motion from Alan Wolfe
and
seconded
by John Dinovski.
Submitted
by,
Alan
Wolfe