Board of Directors Mtg - 1/24/12

In attendance:

Bill Osborne, Mike Larkin, Craig Gordinier, Chris Stewart, Tony DeNegri, Rebecca Speake, and Jim Schmidt.

The meeting was called to order by new President, Bill Osborne. Bill read the minutes from the 12/30/11 BOD mtg. The minutes were approved as read.

Chris Stewart went over a check list of the tasks we need to perform to comply with the bylaws and the state laws. We made some minor Tweaks, which Chris will update.

Rebecca passed out the forms for each committee and we discussed that each committee chairperson should be available to give a short report of their activities at each meeting.

We also discussed having round table discussions at the regular meetings on pertinent topics such as heating water, covering walls, etc.

We decided to as Mark Flynn from Sturgis to be the lesion to the AIA since he and Ed regularly attend the AIA meetings.

Tony and Craig will see that the dues checks will be sent to ASA ($750) and AIA (id="mce_marker",000).

Bill Osborne presented a proposed Mission Statement for the GKCMCA as follows: “We the members and associate members of this association pledge ourselves to promote and encourage masonry construction, while exhibiting integrity and quality.”

The board voted wholeheartedly to adopt this as our Mission Statement. It will be presented to the membership at the January meeting.

Bill also suggested that we should develop a Code of Ethics for the Association. He will check some other associations websites and put some suggestions together before the January meeting. We need to keep in mind that these “rules” should be enforceable. If any board member has suggestions for the Code of Ethics, they should contact Bill.

Rebecca will check into getting new business cards made listing the new officers and including the mission statement.