Friends of SACS Board
Minutes of February 14, 2011
Conf. Rm D. at SACS
Present:
Excused:
Guests:
Richard Manny, Mark Miller, Ryan Zinkel, Richard Burchinal, Ruth
Behrens, Wendy Schmitz
Curt Hancock, Sue Pledl-Testroete, Barb Beardslee
Jackie Barbeau
Ryan Zinkel acting as secretary.
Meeting called to order at 12:10pm. Minutes of January 24th approved with the following
changes:
1.
Under Volunteer Coordinator’s report, remove “at Judi’s restaurant”
2.
Change SACS has been named to SACS has been “nominated” by the
Chamber of Commerce as Non-Profit of the Year.
3.
Change President of Festival Foods will speak to Volunteers at SACS next
week to “March 25th”
4.
Under Old Business, change the date of the Pizza Party from Feb. 7 to “March
7”
Treasurer’s report: Balance as of Jan. 31, 2011 is $475,501.01 Report approved
Communications:
Wendy mentions a contact from the taxpayers alliance that brought to her attention a
letter to the Editor appearing in the Sheboygan Press. This letter questioned why the
Senior Center is not impacted by budget cuts, but it contained some inaccurate
information.
Senior Activity Center Commission Report: January 2011 report submitted and
received.
Old Business:
-Strategic Planning: Dick Burchinal informs board of contacts with Henry Jung
who has been very helpful and is willing to meet with our board. There is general
discussion regarding the hiring of someone to fundraise immediately as opposed to
waiting to hire after foundations have been approached via letter. There was general
agreement that nobody on the board has the time and expertise to begin writing these
letters or on how to run a capital campaign. There was discussion of a possible campaign
chairman. There was clarification during this discussion that the person who is managing
the letter writing campaign and nuts and bolts tasks associated with the capital campaign,
but additionally we are seeking someone to be our capital campaign chairperson. This is
a well to do individual who supports the cause and it not a paid position. It is a person
who can put our board or paid fundraiser in contact with the right individuals. Ryan
Zinkel mentioned that there is a distinction between being an employee and a consultant
and this needs to be considered in part for tax reasons. Richard Manny said we shouldn’t
be putting a job description together, but rather an explanation of what we are looking for
and seek proposals from these individuals as to what they can provide. Dr. Manny would
like to begin interviewing people by early March so he recommended having a deadline
of March 7 to get these applications in for fundraising consultants. An ad hoc committee
will be established to handle the interviews.
New Business:
-Bylaws –Ryan Zinkel proposed reviewing and revising the bylaws. It was
agreed that this would be discussed at the next executive committee meeting set for
Thursday, March 17th, 2011.
-Nominations – continue seeking nominations, Scott Johnston who attended last
month was interested in potentially joining our board.
-Set up committee meetings.
-Florence Heimbecker will –Will and resolutions reviewed by Ryan Zinkel.
Discussion about restriction of trust assets and the lack of a “Donation Fund” as required
in the Resolution of the Friends board of 4/23/2003. There is no restriction within the
will. It was agreed that we need to determine if there was any requirement by the city to
follow this resolution because it was approved by common council resolution.
-Chamber of Commerce event – the board approved paying for the Chamber
Dinner for up to 4 board members as a result of our nomination.
-Annual Meeting –Date set for May 24th, 2011 at DeLand Park Shelter
-next board meeting, March 21st, 2011 at noon at SACS.
Meeting adjourned at 1:17.