STC Board Meeting

May 6, 2006

Present: Joe Devney, Deborah delMazo, Richard Mateosian, Jessica Livingston, Eunice Malley

We will mail award plaque to David Alt.

Meeting Location

Joe is looking into having our meetings at the Oakland Marriot downtown beginning October.

Elections

Richard discussed the following:

Elections will be held at June meeting. We have candidates for President and VP of Programs. No candidates yet for Treasurer or Secretary. Candidates have until May 15 to declare. Elected officers will begin their term on July 1.

Voters can download a ballot from our website. An announcement will be sent by email about this on May 16. Richard will bring ballots to the June 14 meeting, at which time the votes will be tallied and winners announced.

Programs

Joe received some names of people to contact from Mary Rosberg. He will ask presenters at the Conference if they would be willing to be presenters here. While there, he will also get some items to use as raffle prizes.

June meeting features Erik Hennum from IBM. July meeting will feature Sandra Korzenny from Apple who will discuss Managing Documentation under Pressure – Lessons Learned from Apple Computer.

Jean Lundquist will bring food to the May meeting. Deborah to pick up projector from Jim Dexter’s home.

FrameMaker Class

Class will follow same format and pricing as RoboHelp class. It will be held June 24 from 9:00 to 1:00 at the Albany Senior Center. Eunice has not yet received contract from them confirming the class. (NOTE: after meeting, she received it in her mail at home.)

Joe created a new product page on Tierranet/Miva Merchant to accommodate registration. Deborah will email Eunice names and email IDs of registrants. Eunice will send out registration confirmation emails and track waiting list.

Eunice to email Joe the announcement she wrote for the RoboHelp class to use in email blast of 300 people. Announcement to include a statement that people must cancel one week ahead of time to avoid being charged.

Eunice will call Albany Senior Center to find out if someone will be there at 8:30 on the day of the class to open the room for us, etc.

Treasurer

Deborah is continuing to work on procedures. She will let Joe know how much we are paying for the onlnine credit card service. Joe may work on finding another vendor etc. after his term as president is over. Deborah will give Joe a credit card activity history and copies of Mechanics Bank statements.

Deborah will buy 2006 upgrade of Quicken for the Chapter.

Deborah found that the reconcilement feature in Quicken has not been used in the past, and so there are some discrepancies with other records. She will reconcile the account if the discrepancy is large.

Touchstone Competition

Richard will send Jessica information on the competition to place on the Internat’l STC website.

Richard is looking for judges. He would like to allow 6 weeks judging so that it can be completed before Thanksgiving.

Secretary

Eunice to email Jean to request April meeting minutes.