Board Meeting Minutes
July 25, 2003

Attendees: Brian Wood, Sharyn Prime, Bernie Nachtrab, Julie Kadnar, Steve Smith, and Diane Richardson

The meeting began at 7:38.

Review of 5/18/03 minutes: The minutes were approved.

I-Day:
Julie reporting.

Julie noted that next I-Day will be April 28, 2004, and the theme will be "Cyberterrorism."

Treasurer's Report:
Bernie reporting.

Bernie had the balance sheet as of 25th July. Re: the tax filing. We should have sent the appropriate constitution to National. CPCU said our charter wasn't in keeping with National. The IRS said just to use the current tax ID to file. We have to re-do the bylaws with the members' approval; we can attach them to the Chaptergram for ratification. Eli Shupe, Brian Wood, and Bernie are working on this. November 15th is the tax due date. At present it appears revenue from I-Day was $13,480.

Conferment Dinner:
Brian for Jim Henry.

The Conferment Dinner will be November 11, 2003, at the Sharonville Convention Center. A request has gone in for Jim Nau to attend. How can we encourage more turnout? If we got a local media or sports figure, would that bring in more members? Brian will e-mail to ask for suggestions.

PR:
Sharyn reporting:

Sharyn will get press releases out to local papers-The Post, Enquirer, Business Courier, and the local community papers-about the new officers, and our achieving Gold Circle of Excellence Status.
Programs:
Brian reporting for Jim.

National is pushing the National Leadership Institute programs regionally. The fee structure is $50 to $100 per person and National takes a cut. We have local people such as Greg Deimling and Cincinnati Financial people who are instructors so Jim and Brian do not see a reason to push the programs. They consist of five parts; completion is four of the five. Julie said they are dropping the requirements. Brian will ask about us putting it on locally ourselves. Some parts of the course don't seem to be of value and are difficult to apply personally. Part of the problem is that the NLI is held in other places and money is a factor.

Education:
Brian reporting.

We need to try to hook people up with study programs since we're not supporting classes right now. Julie asked about showing up in classes with "goody" baskets. A class in Accounting will be underway Aug. 5th in the Dixie Terminal Bldg.
We should update our web site to get information out.

Good works:

We spent $700 for the Miami Twp. senior safety lock boxes. Sharyn gave the check to the fire chief.
Bernie asked if we were going to continue the blankets.
Sharyn noted that working with the local safety committees was good as it was a tie-in to our industry.

New Members:
Steve reporting:

Nothing yet

New business:

Brian will be asking everyone for web site input.

Re: the annual meeting yearbook ad-Brian will check about doing a full page ad, perhaps splitting cost with Cincinnati Financial.

On the web site we have different lists of board and chair members. Can we just go with the ones on Brian's list? We agreed this was OK.

Bernie on the scholarship funds. We have $10,000 in interest-paying checking account. He would like to move $5,000 to the money fund or perhaps to the scholarship fund? He noted if we move the money to the scholarship fund it is in a restricted fund.
We can ratify the budget at the next meeting, but note we reviewed the treasurer's report this meeting.

The next meeting will be September 5th at 7:30 at State Auto.

The meeting adjourned at 8:45.

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