Minutes:03/22/2014 Membership Meeting Agenda

Meet & Greet - 15-30 minutes

• Pictures on Lockers - Larry & Josh
• Get to know each other games - Martin
  • yarn game - 2 groups (hold yarn and pass the yarn ball to someone else)
• Eat - Pizza

Board Update - 15 minutes (Max of 5 minutes each topic)

Governance - Nate (2 min)

• 501(c)3 status - Delivered, no contact yet...
• Facilities - we’re in good shape (here’s what needs work) (Josh)
• Elections - Nominations Now Open (what’s changed)
  • Partial Board (2 openings) - replace Tyler & ???
  • 1 year terms w/ Board Pledging

Financial - Treasurer (temporarily Josh) (47 seconds)

• Member dues primarily go toward day-to-day operations
• We are facing some Operations Issues in April

Fundraising - Larry (2 min)

• 100% of the Board has contributed money - average pledge $xxx
• What to expect in the next year
  • Focus fund-raising on sustaining the organization
    • any revenue will be in addition to member dues
  • consistent with AHA's mission
  • not interfere with individual member activities
  • get $$$ for our efforts (ie. make more than it costs to do)
  • spend those $$$ where members want to (ie. aligned with long-term goals NOT daily ops)
  • do the best we can to keep people from getting burned out raising money
  • do the best we can so no-one is ignored or pissed off in the process of raising money

Member Input Needed Tonight!!!

• Identify Member-prioritized Long-Term Goals
  • Lego Exercise - Larry will lead AHA members in a goal-identification exercise.

More social stuff

• Eat More
• Music
• Videos in the background