GSC BoD Meeting
Thursday, October 7 , 2000
Directors present:
Alex Backer, Jeff Bergthorson, Marco Casari, Catherine Cornu, Bob Gingrich, Will Green, Anil Hirani, Michael Johnson, Tobias Kippenberg, Jose Mumbru, Athanasios Nenes, Tim Lesko, Steve Pracko, Nick Pornsinsiriak, Claude Seywert
Directors absent:
Magali Billen, Tanja Bosak, Will Dunbar, Michael Fleming, Serena Guarnaschelli, James Harrington, Ying Huang, Fok-Yan Leung, Hui Wu
Guests:
Aron Meltzner
Chair Alex Backer presiding.
a. Introduction of guests
Eron is here representing the Gay/Lesbian club and asking for event funding
b. Additions to the agenda
None.
On Saturday there’s gay day at Disneyland. General admission to the park is $41. The club wants to pitch in $10-$15 per ticket. The event would be open to everyone. The club contributes $5 per ticket; they asked the Y to give $5 per ticket too and want us to match that contribution. The BoD votes to sponsor this event for up to $75 (Marco and Tim abstain).
The proposed date is now November 18. Alex will do the music, Michael will be in charge of drinks and food.
Alex and Tim had a meeting with Dr. Hauser, the director of the CDC. He is enthusiastic about working with us. They talked about companies advertising in the GSC newsletter (when they come to campus). Catherine thinks we shouldn’t put commercials in the newsletter and do the job of the CDC. Would they pay for their ads? If so there might be legal and tax issues that need to be resolved.
Will Green is organizing our next ice skating event.
Thanos and Bob volunteered to take the lead in putting together another wine tour.
The clubfunding committee presented their recommendations for the funding. They suggest paying out $10460 (the clubs asked for a combined amount of $20330). That leaves $1540 unallocated to be used during the remainder of the year, if new clubs form or for other funding (quickfunding).
Jose would like for a member of the clubfunding committee to be present at future quickfunding meetings in order to make sure funding requests don’t duplicate the clubfunding and that similar guidelines are used.
For next year we should publish clearer guidelines for the proposals. Jose will send out comments on the proposals with our response. Some clubs have already asked for additional explanations.
Alex thanks the committee for their work. The BoD votes unanimously to accept the committees recommendations.
Neither Serena nor Tanja are here so this item was skipped.
Tobias (sportszar) does not want to be in charge of the sports webpages. Thus the webmaster needs to take care of it.
Need to designate 2 regulars and 2 alternates as GSC representatives on the grievance committee. In accordance with tradition, the GSC chair and the GRB chair (Alex and Jim) will be the regulars. Steve and Catherine will be the alternates.
Get your copy of the technique at the grad office! Marco handed out a draft with suggestions to improve the technique: 1) we should do better advertisement for the editor postion; 2) the candidates should hand in written proposals of what they want to do; 3) the compensation of the editor should be based on his/her performance. Everyone agrees with these suggestions.
III. ANNOUNCEMENTS
a. NSO review
There were problems with some lunches but those were not our responsibility. Also there was a mix-up with the bus for the Saturday beach trip. All the other events went well. There were however not too many people present at the Red Door social. About 60 people finally ended up participating in the movie night. We spend a total of $2700 on the NSO events.
b. Retreat
The BoD retreat will take place on Oct 7. There will be 3 cars going. Alex will mail out the final details.
c. Updating of email list
Everyone should update the email lists to which they forward our announcements.