Board Meeting 2016 Minutes

December 10th 2015
Attendance - Matthew Teegarden, Steve Jesok, Fred Bainbridge, Brian Mason, Joe Kaster, Terence Kolstad, Manoj Shah, Nash Pherson
Agenda:

2015 Year End

• Great year, great feedback
• Brought in sponsors

2016 - Renew sponsors - Some sort of CRM system would be useful
Use QuickBooks for Sponsorship stuff once we get on QB in 2016

2016 Topics:

• OSD day was great. For sure we'll do another!
• OPSMGR all day was great
• Seems like the MNSCUG audience wants more SCOM
• Move the May meeting to Monday and Friday and be ready to cancel it for MMS
• Matthew will be sure to confirm with Brian regarding April all-day

2016 Speakers we'd like to see:

• Jason Sandys
• Deployment bunny - Mikael Nystrom
• Kevin Holman / Cameron Fuller
• Kent Agerlumd
• Peter Daalmans
• Don Jones
• Greg Ramsey - also sponsor - Brian can ask Warren if Greg comes

2016 Sponsors:

• Goal renew all 2015
• AppSense?
• Cyberadvisors has committed to 2016 for 1 food sponsorship
• Maximum of 2 gold sponsors per year

Bylaws:

• Election Process - needs more definition
• Create Election Process Procedure
• Process for how we are going to handle the elections
• General members recommend
• VP and the Pres in two separate elections
• Board of Directors not mentioned during elections
• Current board of directors will make the final decision for all positions

Bylaws are agreed upon
Quarterly Board Meetings

• These happen before or during scheduled MNSCUG meetings
• If this can't happen we will need to provide 2 weeks in advance

Certify Officers:

• President - Fred
• Vice President - Joe
• Treasurer - Nash
• Secretary - Brian Mason
• Board - passed

Finance:

Annual Budget Proposal - not including MMS - In January the board will be reviewing the books and a finance policy will be defined

• 2014 and 2015 are in the black
• In January a financial statement will be made available
• Budget items need to be defined
• Expense report process will be defined in January

Addendum - 12/15/2015
Motioned for the 2016 board to be as follows -
Making the 2016 board:

1. Fred Bainbridge - President
2. Joe Kaster - Vice President
3. Brian Mason - Secretary
4. Nash Pherson - Treasurer
5. Matthew Teegarden
6. Steve Jesok
7. Terence Kolstad
8. Steve Buchanan
9. Manoj Shah
10. Tim Benjamin
11. Joey Gleason
12. Ryan Ephgrave

Voted via email -
6 votes in favor, 1 abstentia (no) motion passes.
Board members able to vote (2015 members)
Fred, Matthew, Brian, Nash, Steve J, Steve B, Joey