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September 21, 1999 Philadelphia Chapter CPCU Board Meeting
Minutes
The following Board Members were in attendance: Pete Palestina, Clint Gillespie, Rick Lee, Phil Spinelli, Rina Williams, Val Ullman-Katz and Kathy Frenzel. Also in attendance were: Larry Gross, Lilly Cowan, Pat Rakowski and Scott Brown. Scott Brown was introduced as our future Regional Society Governor effective in October. Meeting was called to order at 10:10 a.m. A motion was made to approve the minutes from the August meeting, the motion was seconded and approved. Pete announced that 122 people registered up for the breakfast program of which 8 were new designees and 1 media person. Pete discussed the possibility of giving a gift to our guest speakers but believed that purchasing through the Society was too expensive. Scott Brown stated that the Society was looking at lowering the costs. Val suggested looking into other items and agreed to look into the matter for the Chapter and would check with National as to the use of the logo on such items. Rina suggested that we give the chairs, not on the Board, an award for chairing a committee. Val and Pete agreed to look into the matter. Pete passed out the agenda and the updates to the directories of board, committees and their chairs. If anyone wants to add anything please contact Pete. The secretary was advised to send these out to the Board members that were not present. Chairs should let Pete know of committee member names, addresses, fax, phone and e-mail so that they may be added to the directory. Pete advised that Peter Elliott, Associate VP Member Services IIA of NJ, has volunteered to join a committee and Pete will add him to the misc. list of volunteers for which Kathy is the Chair. Kathy Frenzel will contact members to get involved in some type of research project. Larry Gross will be available to lend procedural guidance to those willing to do a project. Larry announced that he will be completing a research project this year. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Pete asked that everyone PLEASE review the draft scholarship application program for:
We need to have this in place before the April meeting in that the awards should be made between April and June. Rick will look into the process and bring suggestions to the next meeting. Also we would like all of the members to review the process and bring their suggestion to the October meeting. Rick passed out a trial Budget worksheet for the Board to go over in their deliberations. The Board went over each line item and amended it accordingly. Scott Brown will check with the Society on the tax status of 501 C.3. Val suggested that under Good Works we bring food (can goods) to our larger events ("I" Day) with the items going to the Food Bank or other charitable agencies. Other Good Work projects were discussed and will be reported back to the Board. Pete reported that Seminar Chair Cindy Wolkiewicz said that we will have 5 sessions this year as follow:
Rick led a discussion on income. A motion was made, seconded and approved on Reimbursement of expenses where a board or committee chair is not reimbursed by their company. The motion was as follows: "To the extent an Officer, Director or Committee Chair incurs expenses to attend their respective meetings they may be reimbursed for their expenses provided that they are within reason." After final discussion on the trial budget a motion was made, seconded and approved that we adopt the tentative budget. The next Chaptergram deadline is October 10th for the December issue. Committee Chairs should write something and get it to Pete by October 10th. The Fire Essay programs were discussed. Pete announced that the Council Rock contest awards ceremonies will take place in November. There is no known status of the Philadelphia School District contest. Val and Phil indicated that they may have contests this year in their respective districts. There was no old business. The Board Meeting was adjourned at 12:05 p.m. |
