Georgia Chattahoochee Board Meeting Minutes

New Business

1.    Michelle Norman

·         This year's board meetings will be held on off-month of our chapter dinner meetings, every second Wednesday at 1:00- 2:00 p.m., April 11, June 13, August 8, and November 14.

2.    Sandy Luttrell

·         Awards Nomination: Submitted a membership award nomination for the chapter, and the SPAC committee submitted an award nomination for SPAC.

·         Chapter Banner - Proposed a new chapter banner -  33” wide 5’8 tall with stand to purchase and be used for visibility, membership benefits, and APMP education purposes at all future events, including SPAC

o   Cost is estimated at $199, excluding tax

o   Sandy will send email recommended text for the board to provide input

o   Board suggested to use our logo colors, no clip art, and no people

·         Chapter Website:

o   Updated with presentations, next meeting info, virtual room info, and membership photos

o   APMP/national website has been updated as well

o   SPAC presentation are available on the site

o   Sandy Luttrell will update job page with LinkedIn for the job postings and APMP's national job bank, when available

Job Position Reports

1.    Michelle Norman – President

·         Open Chair positions: Vice Chair, Secretary, Webmaster, Publicity, and Programs

-       Discussion of recruitment for these positions

2.    Sandy Luttrell – Membership

·         Membership

-       123 active members

-       As of Jan 5^th, people to renew membership (not heard from 3 of those folks)

-       Michelle to follow-up with Cathy Valerio and Merika Wright

-       Jim Keifer wants to stay active with the chapter

·         SPAC 2012 – Hyatt Regency Downtown, Atlanta

-       Public parking $11 plus MARTA accessibly

3.    Keith Propst – Promotions and Treasury

·         Transitioning into the Treasury role and will contact Jim to obtain all treasury material and equipment  to proceed forward

-       Will handle promotion function until this position can be filled

·         GA Board Members agreed to opening a new account at SunTrust bank

·         Keith Propst, as the chapter Treasurer, will proceed with opening a new bank account with SunTrust. The board agreed that along with Keith, Michelle Norman – Chapter Chair and Sandy Luttrell – Membership Chair will be authorized signers for the account.

-       Michelle Norman, Sandy Luttrell, and Keith Propst will meet early next week at a specific location to open the account

·         Need to pay off SPAC and LaBrita Cash for Gift Cards from last meeting used for the January chapter dinner meeting

·         Possible profit for each chapter for SPAC 2011 will be around $1,800 dollars, could be less

4.    Joni Charron – Job Postings

·         Currently five posting on the website

·         activity over the last couple of months – no current updates

5.    Lauri Erenstoft and LaBrita Cash – Programs

·         Current schedule of programs

-       Feb – Virtual meeting – 7 way to win your proposals

March – Mitch Reed – Rapid Proposal Response

April – Sandy Luttrell – Kickoff calls with a kick

May – Panel Discussion – Effective Executive Summaries

June – Members Choice

July – Beth Wingate

Aug – Virtual meeting

Sept – Members Choice

·         Will look into piggy backing off other chapter’s virtual meetings

·         Sandy is doing a virtual meeting for the FL chapter in March

·         Possible virtual meeting with Mike Parkinson

·         Concerns made in regards to the presenter for March – LaBrita and Lauri will be providing overall guidance

-       Lauri discussed Twitter and LinkedIn, looking into setting up a GA page

·         Membership Appreciation for 2012

-       Be thinking about what we want to do; possible Ideas: luggage tags, flash drives, d-rings, etc.

6.    Kathleen McCollum – Education

·         Contact Beth Wingate of NCA to understand their educational effort

·         Copy Rick Harris per additional emails to Charlie Divine as I’m not receive a response in a timely manner

·         Discussion of practitioner workshop for SPAC 2012

·         Kathleen McCollum – asked the board members what would you all like to see the GA chapter do in regards to education

-       Knowledge Base on national site (Train-the-Trainer), usage, resources, and digestion with commercial elements

-       Engage members to contribute to APMP: articles, perspective magazine, membership, personal levels, etc.

-       Contact Robin Davis to understand where APMP, as an organization, is going in the commercial market with accreditation, presenters, etc.