Present: Janet Armstrong, Jackie Jones, Robin
Allen, Gloria Scott-Tibbs, Kathy Zaebst, Marty Rigo, Vicky Price, Kelley
LaPlace, Kathy Gordon, Marsha Beane, Karla Zadnik, Bev Fuchs, Claire
Paul
Spring Retreat May 21-24:
- Connie has agreed to do this one last retreat with Janet's help.
- Direct any complaints to Janet.
Ways and Means Committee:
- National Quilting Day set up will be Friday night/Saturday morning
- Two Sew-in days – Ways & Means will coordinate with Bev
to schedule these. Jackie’s church on Sawmill Road is
available. Will recruit helpers from the list of members who
volunteered to be on a committee.
- April Garage Sale - Kathy Gordon will coordinate. Members
will pay to rent a table, and keep their own proceeds. Large
items can be advertised on the website. Have one table of donated
items, the money will go to the guild.
- Ways & Means has fund raising dinners and fat quarter lottos
planned for the year. Chris Meeks is in charge.
- Pins – Ways & Means will order 10th Anniversary pins. They
won't be here in time for National Quilting Day, but will be sold
at subsequent meetings.
Charity Quilts:
- Bev will work with Ways & Means to plan these and determine
locations.
2010 Challenge:
- Connie will distribute these at the next few meetings, until they're
gone. She has 80 packets. They sell for $5, which goes to the
Service quilts budget.
- The challenges are due at the July picnic/meeting.
- The membership will vote for winners in the following categories:
- Most intricate and/or interesting piecework
- Most precise appliqué
- Most effective use of embellishment
- Most representative of the 2010 Challenge Theme, "My
view of Common Threads".
- The Board needs to decide if we will give out pins for participation.
National Quilting Day/Tenth Anniversary – March 20:
- We can fit 46 people with sewing machines at tables. 60-65
without machines. Marty will ask when they sign up if they
need a table.
- Marty will take reservations; she has a form made up. They
can sign up tonight or mail it. Marty will not be there.
- We have 50 gift bags.
- Parking is difficult – have a drop off zone. Carpool
if you can.
Committee/Officer Notebooks:
- We will go over the notebooks at next month's Board meeting, which
will be before the March meeting.
Revisit By-laws:
- Karla nominated Melissa to form a committee to review the by-laws. Should
we revise them? Are we following them? Does the Board
need to meet on a specific date?
Presenting to the guild at large:
- Items need to go through the board before being presented at the
meetings.
- Anyone planning an event needs to have purchases, give-aways, or
incentives approved by the board.
- You must have receipts to be reimbursed for expenses.
- Copies of all contracts need to go to Marty.
- A person can only chair one committee at a time. This is
so as many members as want to can serve on a committee. If
we get to a point where we have a shortage of volunteers, we can
change this.
Emails to the guild:
- The newsletter will come out the week before the meeting (after
Tuesday).
- Claire will email the board requesting items to be included in
the newsletter.
- Check with the Board before sending a broadcast email; maybe they
can be combined so the membership is not overwhelmed with emails.
Behavior of the Board members.
Other business:
- Marsha will book the Aladdin Shrine for the August 24 meeting for
$150. (Vickki Pignatelli) The workshop is August 25 at Quilt
Beginnings.
- Gloria has booked Xenos for the July 27 picnic for $100. She
has a contract.
- Should we pay the church less this year since we are having fewer
meetings there? We vote to pay them $300, as in past years.
- Treasurer’s report – Marty. We have $11,360.59. A
lot because of retreat or bus trip deposits.
- Suggestion – use Aladdin for Quilting Day in the future – cheaper
and easier to park than the Jeffrey.
- Let's use another room in the church for the Board Meetings.
- NQA – we can have free insurance and a quilt show announcement
in their magazine, Quilting Quarterly, because we are a chapter. Karla
will serve as the NQA chapter coordinator.
- The guild meeting will be run like a meeting. The President
will ask for comments and questions.
- We will introduce all the committees at tonight's meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 6:20pm
