NE/IA Chapter American Society of Interior Designers
Board Meeting—Mahoney State Park
September 13, 2007
Board of Directors Present
Richard Klaas ASID, President
Joyce Wimmer ASID, President-Elect
Joe Harwood IP Financial Director
Marilyn Thompson Allied Member ASID, Co-chair Communications
Ellen Newburry ASID, Co-chair Communications
Lisa McCoid AIA ASID, Professional Development Director
Lisa Laaker IP Membership Director
Board of Directors Absent
Teyanna Miles, Student Representative to the Board
Christine Mann ASID, Director at Large
Others in Attendance
Becky Rea ASID
Becky Wiechman ASID
Traci Bonacci IP
Annette Beltz Harmon CFM CM, Chapter Administrator
Richard Klaas, ASID—President
Meeting was called to order by President Klaas at 11:13 am. Rick introduced guests
Becky Wiechman, Traci Bonacci and Annette Beltz Harmon. Minutes of the June, 2007
Board meeting were presented. Lisa McCoid moved to accept the minutes as corrected,
seconded by Joe Harwood. Motion approved.
Joe Harwood IP—Financial Director
Joe Harwood read the financial report, as follows:
As of August 31, 2007:
Total Assets:
Total Liabilities:
Total Capital:
Total Liabilities and Capital:
$75,585.96
$ 4,384.05
$71,201.91
$75,585.96
Joyce Wimmer moved to accept the financial report as read, seconded by Lisa McCoid.
Financial report approved.
Professional Development Director—Lisa McCoid AIA ASID
Student Career Day—Ginnie Griffin and Jenny Tolly
Lisa McCoid read a report including the agenda for ASID-Student Affairs-Career Day,
September 21, 2007. The program, Green Design: Putting Knowledge Into Practice, will
include speakers at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, a legislative briefing,
round table discussion and project award winners will discuss projects with a slide show.
Board members were encouraged to attend.
3rd Year Scholarship—Susan Sonderegger ASID
Lisa McCoid received a report from Susan indicating her responsibilities as chair of the
student scholarship committee. This report will go to the next committee chair for 20072008.
Sue included with her report, a copy of an email she sent to the NU Foundation
requesting an additional $250. for each of two student scholarships given to a UNL and
UNK student, as discussed in May, 2007 with the Director of Financial Aid. Suggestions
with our President-elect will be shared for planning purposes next year.
University Liaison—UNL, Mandy Peterson ASID
No report.
University Liaison—UNO, Trisha Otto ASID
A report of the past year as committee chair was submitted to Lisa McCoid, to be passed
on to the next committee chair.
University Liaison—Metro CC, Jenna Scott
A report of the past year committee events was submitted to Lisa McCoid, to be passed
on to next year’s Metro liaison.
Awards Banquet—Deb Oliphant Allied Member ASID, Pam Carroll ASID
All expenses are in from the Awards Banquet, as follows:
Income:
$14,140.00
a) Donations
$9,150.00
b) Banquet tickets
4,990.00
Expenses:
(Deficit)
15,422.55
$ -1,282.55
Conference Update—Gail Williams ASID, Julie Labens ASID
No report.
Director at Large—Christine Mann ASID
NE. Legislative—Carol Nepage ASID and Patti Haertel ASID
Lisa McCoid has attended some of the committee meetings, and informed the Board of
current activities such as a tailgate party November 10, to include senators. Doris Buell
ASID and Jessica Doolittle ASID will transition to this committee, which meets every
two weeks.
IA Legislative—Jan Abbe Allied Member ASID
A report from Jan Abbe included information pertaining to Registered Interior Designer
for Iowa. The website to make application for this is online and can be found at
www.state.ia.us/ideb.
Under Interior Design Examining Board/Applications and Forms, you will find forms for
three categories:
1. Application for Registration as Registered Interior Designer
2. Out-of-state: Application by Reciprocal Transfer
3. Architects: Application for Registration by Architectural Endorsement
Transition from Anderson Management and Annette Beltz Harmon report—Ric Klaas
ASID
Effective July 1, 2007, the ASID Chapter obtained Annette Beltz Harmon as our new
administrator. On July 31, 2007, Annette Harmon, Joe Harwood, and Ric, secured the
thirty-five boxes of ASID’s property from Anderson Management Services, Inc. It was a
smooth and amicable transition. It was agreed to honor Anderson Management’s
contract that expired August 31, 2007. The final amount paid to them was $2,104.95.
Many positive changes have been noticed during the last two months.
Membership Director—Lisa Laaker IP
Committee chair, Lisa Laaker reported that HQ would honor a prospective member with
a $20.00 discount on their application fee of $100.00, at the membership kick-off . The
promotion will be valid for 60 days (October 1 – November 30, 2007).
IP Membership—Joan Miller IP
No report.
Golf Outing—Annette Mundy ASID
The next golf outing is scheduled for June 7, 2008 at Tregaron Golf Course in Bellevue.
Sponsors are being sought for this event.
Team Meeting Report—Becky Dickerson
Lisa Laaker reported there will be a team meeting, at Emser Tile Branch, 11941
Centennial Rd, LaVista, November 8, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm for a Lunch & Learn.
Fall Membership Kickoff—Joyce Wimmer ASID
The fall Membership Kickoff has been scheduled for Thursday, October 11, 2007. The
event will be held at the Magnolia Hotel at 1615 Howard in the Old Market.
The schedule of events includes:
 Afternoon board meeting
 New member coffee
 Social hour with cash bar
 Dinner and program
The Board will be asking established members to serve as hosts for the new members.
This is an effort to help integrate them into the organization and to provide them with a
contact for questions and concerns.
Members will be encouraged to bring potential new members for all member categories.
A 20% discount will be given for application fees October 1 through November 30, 2007.
Table sponsorships will be offered to IP members for a fee of $200.00 IP members will
have “First Right of Refusal” for this program. In return for their sponsorships they will
receive a reserved place at their table, introduction during the program, scrolling business
card recognition before the banquet and the opportunity to place their business card into a
card holder at each place setting.
If table sponsorships are not filled by IP members, they will be offered to non-IP
members for $300.00.
Communications Co-director—Marilyn Thompson Allied Member ASID, Ellen
Newburry ASID
Website—Christine Mann ASID
Annette Beltz Harmon reported for Christine that the website will be up and going by
Monday, September 17, 2007. Annette showed Board members a hard copy of the
website home page, explaining what the website includes.
Annette handed out to all Board attendees, a summary of activities, July-August, 2007,
that she has been involved with NE/IA Chapter ASID, as follows:
General
--Established dedicated phone line, email and mailing addresses for Chapter.
--Developed new Chapter stationary and envelopes.
--Answered/made 25 calls on Chapter’s behalf in July; 53 in August.
--Met with lobbyist Scott Berryman to review issues.
--Collected, maintained and distributed Showhouse information to participants.
--Printed and mailed postcards for Friendship Program project.
--Developed and distributed August Fast Facts in new format.
--Secured Lincoln Yellow Page advertising, increasing ad size and adding internet
listings at only a slight increase in rates.
--Contacted and communicated with National about membership issues; received an
hour-long training session on intranet and membership.
--Participated in two membership kickoff planning meetings.
--Converted Governor’s Mansion Renovation VHS tape to DVD format at no cost to
Chapter.
--Distributed emails to memberships as requested.
Records
--Received electronic records from Anderson Management Groupo; organized,m
relabeled and converted files for future use and storage.
--Maintained RSVP list for Awards Banquet.
Accounting
--Set-up Quickbooks; ready for chart of accounts
--Processed mail and forwarded checks received to Financial Director, Joe Harwood,
maintaining a record of checks received.
Chapter Web Site
--Supplied bid and secured contract information for new web site.
--Developed new content for all pages.
--Uploaded archival issues of Fast Facts and board members photos.
--Working on cleaning up directory for most accurate contact information.
Strategic Plan and Membership Survey Updates—Joyce Wimmer ASID
The 2008 Strategic Plan Budget was balanced at our April planning session. It was
anticipated at that time, however, that changing administrative services would create a
deficit for the coming year.
Considerable effort has been put into finding ways to cover the additional expenditure.
Some budget items have been reduced and some extra tactics now require underwriting.
These changes still left a deficit. A new tactic has been added to the Strategic Plan to
develop a program of IP Chapter Sponsorships. It is planned for this tactic to increase
revenue for the chapter by providing IP members with specific levels of exposure to the
design members of the organization.
We will begin with a modest plan for this year. Over the coming year, we will work to
create a more extensive program that will offer a wide range of opportunities at various
levels of contribution. This program will be used to create a coordinated approach to IP
contributions and reduce the number of committees soliciting donations from our IP’s.
If developed correctly, the program will encourage increased IP membership by
providing our IP members with outstanding exposure to the design community. The
program will follow national guidelines, offering IP’s “first right of refusal” on all
opportunities and charging non-IP’s at least 50% higher rates.
This approach is used extensively and successfully by other chapters across the country
and was highly promoted at CLC as beneficial to both the chapter and its IP members.
Discussion followed on specific tactics.
Joyce Wimmer moved to accept the Strategic Work Plan and Budget, seconded by Joe
Harwood. Motion carried.
Archival proposal update—Annette Mundy ASID and Dana Carlton Flint ASID
Annette Mundy reported that this committee will report further when a computer and
program are added.
Medalist Award—Jan Abbe Allied Member ASID
No report.
Community Service Project—Becky Jackson ASID, Lance Hiatt Allied Member ASID
Painting Day was Saturday, September 8th. A special thank you from Lance and Becky
to Joe Harwood. Painting was completed by 3:00 pm. Participants: Joe Harwood and
employee, Kevin, Lance Hiatt, Amanda Chaney, Bethany Sedlacek, Jordan Edick, Pam
Stanek. Mary Carter, Deb Munro, Kristi Burnett, Bill Luxford, Joyce Wimmer, Ric Klaas
and Wayne, Richard White, Ellen Pandorf, Susan McMannama and Margo Pirruccello.
Project Awards—Becky (Kiekow) Rea ASID and Jessica Lindersmith ASID
Project awards are complete and have been awarded for the 2007 NE/IA Project Awards
competition. There were 35 entries which won 22 awards. In detail, 16 were awarded to
Omaha firms/designers, four to Lincoln firms/designers, one to a firm in Iowa City and
one student awards.
The presentation of award certificates at the banquet was a great success! Leonardo’s Art
& Prints was kind enough to donate all of their time and materials to fabricate the
presentation boards and back and shrink-wrap all of our certificates, totaling an estimated
$1200.00! What great support from our Industry Partners!
We will be submitting press releases announcing all of the awards in the Lincoln Journal
Star, the Omaha World-Herald, and hopefully the Des Moines Register, to run this
month. Also, all of the residential awards were published in Omaha Magazine’s
September issue. We did talk with Lifestyle Lincoln regarding running the Lincoln
winners in their fall issue, but, at this time, it was cost prohibitive as it is not currently in
the 2007 NE/IA Strategic Plan.
We have not received all of our costs yet, but according to our estimates, we should end
up very close to our budget if not slightly under.
Kristi Burnett Allied Member ASID—Show House
Showhouse 2008 is underway, the drawing was held Sunday, August 26, all spaces were
filled. The point system seemed to work. Three designers were unable to get a space.
We have a re-measure date set for September 17, 2007, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. A list of
rooms and designers is available at this meeting.
Old Business
None.
New Business
Lisa McCoid reported from Doris Buell, who has been talking with Sheila Sookram about
some Auto Cad classes for interior designers. She has arranged with Metro to provide us
with this, and also to get ASID and IIDA involved. The next meeting is October 11, at
3:00 at Metro Elkhorn campus. An article will be place in Fast Facts to see how much
interest there is.
President Ric Klaas announced that the nominating committee for 2007-2008 is in place.
The members are as follows:
Kristine Allen IP
Lance Hiatt
Ann Newcomer ASID
Arlene Osterloh
The revised chapter election schedule dates from HQ are:
December 1, 2007 Slates due to ASID HQ
January 1, 2008 Last day of 30-day petitioning period
January 15, 2008 Ballots mailed to chapter members
February 11, 2008 Chapter election results sent to ASID HQ
President Klaas adjourned the meeting at 1:41 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Marilyn Thompson Allied Member ASID