Annual Member’s
Meeting
March 28,
2008
Opened
at 5:15.
Past
President's
Report - Les Carlson
- Thank you for
all volunteers.
- Election
results:
2009 EC Members
are:
President
Dean
Krugman
President-Elect
Shelly
Rodgers
Vice President
Glen
Nowak
Secretary
Denise
Delorme
Treasurer
Herb
Rotfeld
Past President
Jef
Richards
President
Elect's Report - Dean
Krugman
- Submissions to
special topics = 16, 9 accepted.
Vice
President's Report - Shelly
Rodgers
- 200 papers
submitted, 103 accepted. Highest submission rate, and
highest number accepted. 20 nominations for best
paper. Top five were sent out for
review.
Treasurer'
s
Report -
Herb Rotfeld
-
The financial position of AAA is solid. Rotfeld has
developed a good working relationship with the Executive
Director and is overseeing the financial deposits
and disbursements on a regular
basis.
Conference
Director's Report – Bob
King
- 60 new
members. Highest attendance ever. Cincinnati, OH in
2009. Mesa, Arizona in 2010. Do not forget about
Beijing, China conference in 2009.
-
Announcements
from AAAs will now be
electronic. Mailing will be
stopped.
Executive
Director's Report – Pat
Rose
·
Revenue
increased approximately 22%, costs decreased
approximately 10%. This left excess revenue of about
$56,000 for 2007. However, the EC voted to spend
funds from this excess to allow all AAA members to
celebrate and have momentums of the 50th Anniversary.
AAA currently has over $400,000 in equity and
is planning to build core equity for the future
when AAA may well need to pay for additional
services.
Committee
Reports:
-
Awards Committee – Herb Rotfeld– 3 nominations for 2
awards. Nominations lacked specificity and did not detail
or make a case for why the nominees met criteria for the
awards. Nominators must read the calls carefully to make
sure they meet the criteria. Joe Phelps asked for further
clarification – Herb mentioned that calls will be more
detailed. He suggested talking with Awards committee
members to get clarification.
·
Finance Committee
– Nancy Mitchell – Reviewed the 2007 budget and actuals as well
as the budget for 2008. All of the committee's queries
were answered satisfactorily. The committee also reviewed
the new AAA Policy Manual with detailed financial procedures.
The committee believes the policy manual will help to ensure
compliance with accounting requirements and financial
transparency.
-
Membership
Committee –
Frauke Hachtmann- 479
members, 60 + new members.
-
Publication
Committee –
Barbara Phillips – The current webmaster's term expires
this December. Thus, the committee will be interviewing
candidates for the position. Asked for JA editor budget to
be increased. Taken on JIAD. Will be working with Hairong
Li, the current Editor.
-
-
Recommend that we start
charging for ads in
newsletter.
-
Research
Committee –
No representative
available.
-
International Advertising
Committee –
Padmini Patwardhan –Adopted a mission statement and
developed a set of goals.
-
Industry Relations
Committee –
Bruce Bendinger –
Since the Committee has been holding special topic
sessions, professional organizations including the One Show
and AEF are more engaged with AAA. The Editor of CMYK
magazine is at this conference. The Committee is organizing
a speaker’s bureau for class presentations. Neil
Burns is incoming Industry Relations Committee
Chair.
New
Business:
Bob King requested
greater transparency in the reporting of the
organization’s finances. All agreed that transparency is
important regarding the financial status of the
organization. Accordingly, written financial information
will be distributed at each business meeting as of
2009. This information will be attached to the
member's minutes.
Carrie La Ferle
asked for strategic information about plans for future.
Dean Krugman responded that he has
commissioned
a committee to look ahead
and help with strategic planning.
Adjourned
at 5:55pm.
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