WesternSFA

Called to order: 7:15pm, Bent Cover bookstore

Attendance: Stephanie Bannon, Craig Dyer, Catherine Book, Mark Boniece, Bob LaPierre, Gary Swaty, Caitlin Gilson, Shane Bryner, Kyla Mills, Marguerite Murray, Sue Uttke, Len Berger

1) Introduction of guests: Sema Supoci (Phoenix Furness), Jared Mills

2) Read and Approve minutes from last meeting. Motion to accept, seconded, and approved. 6-0-0

3) Treasurer's report. Motion to accept, seconded and approved. 9-0-1

4) Committee Reports:

AcrossPlus: weekly meetings at Bookmans still being allowed even though they won't book any other groups anymore. Generally get between 12 and 20 attendees.

. AniZona: Sherri Gahr resigned. Bob is doing day-to-day stuff. Board is Chairing. Memberships are picking up, filled to Tier 1,under 200 memberships – not all paid yet. We need 400 paid memberships to pay outside bills. We will print more bookmarks to distribute right away.

Book Donations: no news

ConRunners 22: Cancelled. Discussion, consensus that we don't need day-long ConRunners, the mini ones are all AniZona people need. We can schedule one for Furness if they want it.

RandomCon: Sold 3 memberships. Website is pretty.

OLD BUSINESS:

5) Logo ad posted to website? Yes, Stephanie thinks so but it happened so long ago... in a galaxy... Caitlin just checked and WOW! It is!

6) Did the deadbeat dealer get billed for bal owed? Yes, Stephanie sent a bill and it is being ignored.

7) Time to discuss policy on honorariums? Tabled for future discussion. We'll ignore it tonite and probably continue to ignore it until August.

8) Did the ad get in CN18.6? Did the flyers get designed yet? Did ComicCon get contacted about stuffing a flyer in their bag? Yes, Yes, and Yes. We got 6 email responses!!! for Anizona and we didn't have to pay ComicCon for stuffing; we loaned them some equipment.

NEW BUSINESS:

9) Approve donation of $200 to "At First Book". Motioned, Approved 11-0-0

10) Time to pay dues.

11) Stephanie wants to discuss the future of AniZona. Discussion: it's a losing con, we should stop. If we sponsor another anime con, the prospective group would hav to demonstrate willingness and experience. Move that AniZona 2009 is the last one we'll sponsor. Approved 6-1-4

12) Stephanie wants to discuss future of ConRunners. See committee report above.

13) Merchant account for credit card processing: Stephanie was to arrange for one but doesn't think we need one. We'll wait for next year.

14) Book Collection at cons: Catherine can't be at AniZona or Random con. Who can take the Harry Potter collection box? Stephanie said she'd do it.

15) We needed a policy to cover AniZona, RandonCon, ConRunners and Across Plus. Stephanie discovered that our insurance agent for Farmers, Inc. has disappeared. Stephanie is looking at quotes from three companies thru an agent.

16) Elections for Officers: recycle the turkeys. Moved, Approved 10-0-3

Next meeting scheduled for May 1, 2009, 7pm, Location: Bent Cover Bookstore.

Move to adjourn, seconded and approved. Meeting adjourned at 8:01 pm

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