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VRA Great Lakes Regional Chapter Meeting Minutes
University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan - October 12, 2007
In attendance:
Chapter chair Joseph Romano called the meeting to order at 10:27am.
Joseph Romano welcomed all attendees and thanked Marlene Gordon for hosting the meeting at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. In attendance were: Kari Smith, Joseph Romano, Lorrie McAllister, Alex Nichols, Meghan Musolff, Laura Paris, Marlene Gordon, Julia Chytil, Carole Pawloski, Astrid Otey, Sue Morris, Marian Lambers, and Terry Kerby.
Treasurer's Report: Treasurer Astrid Otey submitted the following report:
Balance as of March 23, 2007: $ 878.16
Income:
Dues 105.00
Expenditures: 00.00
Balance as of October 9, 2007: $ 983.16
Workshop Grant Program : The Workshop Grant Program was announced by Astrid and Joseph. A regional member can attend a workshop at the national VRA conference and get reimbursed. The member needs only to give a report of what they have learned at the workshop at the next regional meeting. If anyone is interested in this grant, contact Joseph or Astrid. You need to be a member of the regional chapter and need to register for the workshop at the national conference. There are two possible awards: 1) Workshop reimbursement for the chair or chairęs designee, and 2) Regional chapter grants. The deadline for applying for the workshop is the date that the national VRA conference registration ends (as of October 22, 2007, the registration deadline has not been announced).
Nomination Committee Report:Co-Chair Leslie Chapman could not attend the meeting. Joseph indicated that there was one nomination for Chair Marlene Gordon, University of Michigan, Dearborn. The term for Chair is two years. Marlene has accepted the nomination for the position of chair for 2008-2009, and is running unopposed. Members present at the meeting agreed to elect her by acclamation. We will be posting a message to the listserv asking for any objections to this arrangement, and if none are received by the specified deadline, we will simply elect Marlene by acclamation.
Great Lakes Regional Chapter Spring Meeting:The Great Lakes Regional Chapter spring meeting will take place in San Diego at the national conference, March 11-16, 2008. Joseph mentioned that it is difficult to schedule the business meeting during the conference. Options: we could meet immediately after the Annual Business Meeting or we could schedule the meeting at another time (breakfast, lunch, etc.) There will be an announcement on the Great Lakes list as we get closer to the conference date.
VRA Conference Donations: Each year, our chapter donates something to support the conference. Options this year are: 1) Donation to the VRA Development Committee. Last year we supported a coffee break. There has not been a call for donations for the upcoming conference to date. 2) Do we want to donate a chapter basket to the VRA Raffle? As the conference gets closer, we will query the list to get
Membership Renewals: Renewals are on a calendar year basis. If members renew at the spring meeting, they are considered members for the calendar year. Lorrie McAllister will send out an announcement on the listserv in December and Joe will update the membership form for 2008. The membership form can be downloaded from the chapter website: http://www.oberlin.edu/art/vra/vragl.html There was discussion about whether the new chair will preside at the Spring meeting. Joe will preside over the Spring business meeting and we will have some sort of –passing of the torch” to Marlene at the end of the meeting. p>Discussion of new members. The chair gets notices from the national chapter of new members that have joined that are in our region. The Chair contacts them to see if they would like to come to a regional meeting. We currently have 22 members (not including new members signing up at this meeting). If anyone knows people who should be invited to a chapter meeting, please feel free to invite them or contact one of the officers and they will invite them.
Joint Meeting with Midwest chapter: We discussed possibly having a joint meeting with the Midwest chapter. Joseph will follow up with Leigh Gates at the Art Institute of Chicago to see if we could have a joint fall meeting in the coming years. Members indicated also being interested in a possible joint meeting with the ARLIS regional chapter. Lorrie will look up the ARLIS regional chapter chair and contact them.
Approval of March 29 Meeting Minutes: Laura Paris made a motion to approve the minutes from the spring meeting. All agreed and the minutes were approved.
Sue Morris made a motion to adjourn the meeting.The meeting was adjourned at 11:09am.
