March 2005 Board Minutes

AMFA Board of Directors

Meeting MINUTES

March 8, 2006

The AMFA Board of Directors meeting was called to order by Vice President Tom Vacca at 10:40 A.M. at Hibbing Community College.  Present: Rusty Hoglund, Dave Hogan, Gene Betts, Tom Vacca, Dan Larson, Dave Sarvela, and Vickie Tuskan.

The minutes of the February 8, 2006 meeting were reviewed and approved. 

-           Motion: Betts; 2^nd: Hoglund

Financial Report

·         The financial report was reviewed and approved, pending the comments below.

-          Motion: Hoglund; 2^nd Betts

·         Betts had a question about “advertising” not being listed as an asset

·         Tuskan will follow up with Sandy regarding questions on $35 of receivables.

·         An additional column should be added to the Balance Sheet that lists Budget and Actual columns for each month.   Motion:  Betts, 2^nd Tuskan

Membership Issues

·         Dave Hogan to continue follow-up with P & H MinePro (Delinquent).

·         Byron Helland to continue follow-up with Twin City Plating (Delinquent).

·         John Eagleton to continue follow-up with Cirrus Design (Delinquent).

COMMITTEE REPORTS

Marketing committee

Advertising Rates:        The current policy is to double the display advertising rates for nonmembers to advertise in the Shoptalk.  Motion to establish a new policy in which the Marketing/PR Committee needs to approve all non-member advertising.  Motion: Betts, 2^nd Hoglund

Newsletter:  Heather Rand from DEED has agreed to provide a one-page article for Shoptalk for one year.  Likewise, Tom Gregorich has agreed to supply articles on OSHA compliance for one year.  Discussed the need for more member articles in Shoptalk.

Website:  Betts inquired about adding streaming video links to the website.  Tuskan will research.

Motion to pay Betts for expenses from a previous breakfast meeting.  Motion: Betts, 2^nd Hoglund

Government Affairs committee

Duluth Days:  Attendees on March 27 & 28 will be: Hoglund, Betts and Hogan.

Betts and Mary Brandt will make company display tags that include all current members.  Brochures will be developed.  A motion was made indicating that AMFA will not charge the Educational Trust for booth space at Duluth Days.          Motion: Tuskan, 2^nd Betts

OLD BUSINESS

Treasurer Position:  Tuskan will continue with AMFA Treasurer responsibilities and will continue to pursue finding a replacement.

Website:  Tuskan led a review of an invoice from W.A. Fischer.  Motion to pay only $45.95 for domain renewal.  Motion: Hoglund, 2^nd Larson. 

Tuskan – start training with CMS training videos

ET Promotion:  Motion to continue in 2006 to pay for Sandy’s time in preparing for the newsletter articles relevant to ET, as well as golf promotion.  Motion Tuskan, 2^nd Larson

NEW BUSINESS

MMA News:  Hogan will follow up on whether they will attend Duluth Days.

MMA Minutes from February 14, 2006, were reviewed.  Two CVI Board members are needed from AMFA.  Brent Bussman from Floe International may be interested.  Hogan appointed Dan Larson to the CVI Board.

Motion to adjourn:  Betts, 2^nd Larson.

Respectfully submitted by Dave Sarvela, AMFA Secretary