Board of Directors’ Meeting
Thursday, December 17, 2009
China Rose Restaurant
Brunswick, ME
Call to Order: Meeting was called to order at 9:08 a.m. by President Tim Nelson
Calling of the Roll of Officers: Tim Nelson, Richard Lambert, Barbara Skelton, Freeman Abbott, Dabney Lewis, Dabney Lewis, Kathy Joiner, Paul Demers and Denise Kolreg (representing MMA)
Absent: Mike Nugent and Bruce Smith.
Reading of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting: See corrections for September’s meeting that were handed out. November’s corrections see item E Treasurer is misspelled. Motion was made by Dick Lambert to accept the minutes with the mentioned corrections from September’s Membership meeting and November’s Board of Directors meeting. Dabney Lewis seconded the motion with all in favor.
Communications and Bills:
All bills have been paid to date. Waiting to receive MMA’s September, October, and November’s monthly invoice, which are being worked on.
Report of Officers’ and Treasurer’s Report: Barbara Skelton presented the treasurer’s report from September 16, 2009 through December 16, 2009.
Current Balances
Petty cash on hand $ 7 9.52
Checking $ 5,497.58
18 Month Statement CD $ 4,103.68
12 Month Statement CD $ 2,948.14
9 Month Statement CD $ 8,046.40
Statement Savings $ 993.06
Total $20,781.57
Motion was made to accept the Treasurer’s Report was made by Richard Lambert and seconded by Freeman Abbott with all in favor.
Report of Committees:
Education Committee: Paul Demers mentioned some upcoming classes. Dick Tarr, from LaPointe Lumber and Energy Efficiency of Maine will be conducting training lessons on the new 2010 code being held on January 12, 2010 at the Embassy Suites in Portland. $100 nonmembers/$50 for members. 9:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Dick will find out more about this to see how detail this training will be.
May Training – some discussions were held regarding presenters for the May Training program. Trust Manufacturing Association has offered to do some training which would include 2 three- hour presentations with several different topics. One session would be held in the morning and one in the afternoon.
Chris Lowe – he could do a ½ day program on several topics. He is charging $1,000 per day plus expenses.
ICC – Tim Nelson will be in contact with them and will report on this at a later time.
New Business:
New Members: Two new members were presented to the board. Waldo Gilpatrick from West Gardiner and Richard Lang of Wiscasset. A motion was made by Freeman Abbott to accept the two new members and was seconded by Paul Demers with all in favor.
Education Committee: The Board decided not to hold January training. This will be held off until commentaries are published.
Legislative Committee: Senator Diamond put in a Legislative modification for smoke detector and carbon monoxide laws. This is to clarify the bill that is already on in place. It was noted that there were some plumbing code changes. This topic was tabled until their February meeting.
- Website: This is being updated and maintained by MMA. Three new job postings have been posted.
- The Good and Welfare of the Association: Dabney Lewis brought the door prizes for the membership meeting. Freeman Abbott brought tickets which will be sold for $1 each or 6 for $5.00.
There were some discussions on where to hold the monthly board Meetings. Falmouth and Saco are the two locations that would work well for the board.
Adjournment: Freeman Abbott made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 9:54 a.m. This was seconded by Dabney Lewis, with all in favor.
