NYSFAAA EXEC COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES

June 13-15, 2007

Uniondale, NY

Official

Council: Dave Canaski, Sharon Karwowski, Kerry Lubold, Andrea Mason, Heather McDonnell, Sheryl Mihopolus, Judi Miladin, Nancy Teodecki, Angela VanDekker, Brenda Wright, Marilyn Faller. ( absent: Maria Barlaam, Janet McGrath)

State Chairs: Linda Bridgewater, Karen Taylor, Katrina Delgrosso, Claire Jacobi ,Wayne Harewood , Anne Barton , Irvin Bodofsky , Howard Leslie, Deborah Evans, Lisa Simpson , Ursula Bisconti, Chris Constable, Anna Kopot, Tanya Patterson-Stanley.

HESC liaison: Jennifer Dwire

JUNE 13

Meeting Called to Order, 1:10 PM - Dave Canaski

Motion to waive reading of the minutes. H. McDonnell/J. Miladin.

Secretary’s Report- Nancy Teodecki

Minutes of the February meeting and conference call meetings in April and May were distributed prior to meeting. No corrections received.

MOTION: To approve minutes of February, April and May meetings.

H. McDonnell/J. Miladin. Motion approved.

Open Forum Discussion on Situation and Planning:

President’s Update : SLATE issue of NYSFAAA accepting funds from lenders.

Discussion with attorneys and lobbyist- OK to accept money from lenders which are not for educational loan activities, i.e. for our charitable mission- training, scholarships. However, question remains on the exhibit tables. Sunshine Act- some budget issues are cutting lender’s yield and movement toward a ban on incentives and discounts. Bottom line- funding may be reduced from lenders. For Conference 2007 a third party, HESC, will handle arrangements for exhibit room and collect fee from vendors so that no funding is accepted by NYSFAAA. Silent Auction may be OK.

SED will be responsible for writing regulations regarding SLATE effective 180 within days of Governor signing bill (11/30/2006). SUNY has negotiated that any place their agreement is more restrictive than Slate, Slate will apply. Other schools who signed before SLATE should consider renegotiating.

Discussion:

What are campuses doing to help educate collegiate on campus, students/parents?

Looking for guidance from campus counsel as to what can be disseminated.
Student advisory board to discuss lack of guidance, shutting down lists, etc.

Suggestion to hold a SUMMIT with SED with a group of FAOs for outreach purposes- to give guidance and our knowledge base.

Next Generation Committee- Co- Chairs: Anna Kopit, Chris Constable, Tanya Patterson-Stanley

Introduction of purpose of committee: to discuss perception of our mission, activities, diversity and future as seen by this group of members,
Survey sent to committee in March for their summit on May 14/15. Focus of summit: Why are members not involved?
Question from council: why have this committee, what happened to Mentoring? Discussion: opportunity for this generation to voice their concerns in a structured format; have work of committee recognized.
Committee discussed: Impact of AG on involvement. ‘Tools of Future’.
Survey Results-Suggesting a Long Range Plan to include:
Website revamp, Means of Communication/Meetings; Webinars/Podcasts, Mentoring (need to mentor members on how to get involved in NYSFAAA; we need to do a better job of explaining what we do). Intermediate training is important; there should be less lender involvement in the presenting of training. Reaching out to this generation, and vice versa, to promote NYSFAAA.

Long Range Planning Committee- Irvin Bodofsky

Member Survey (179 respondents) - some highlights:

Importance of activities ranked ‘Most Important’: legislative advocacy, novice

training, regulatory changes/compliance, annual conference, regional meetings,

communication about changes cooperation with NASFAA and EASFAA, website,

cooperation with admission, bursar and related professions.

§ ‘Depend on NYSFAAA’ for professional training and legislative updates was ranked highly.

Shared 10-Step planning Model from consultant defining ‘Problems & Opportunities’
Discussed with committee the current environment and options for focus by NYSFAAA. Ranked ‘Problems and Opportunities’ and set goals, along with the ranking of our stakeholders.
Next step- develop objectives. Timeline to finish within the next 3 months before conference so as to have feedback at conference and at regional meetings. Final report no later than January 2008. Purpose of LRP- guideline for Council and President. Every activity should fit into LRP.

Adjourned for the day at 5:10PM

JUNE 14

Call to order at 9:18 AM- Canaski

President’s Report: Dave Canaski

Reported yesterday in the Open Forum

Governance Committee: Judi Miladin

Final trademark for NYSFAAA received. In 5-6 years we must ‘re-assert’ that we are still using acronym; schedule to be kept with Secretary for appropriate action.
Elections for President-Elect: some candidates withdrew around the time of SLATE. Concern on make-up of Election committee- constitution states that committee must be a representative from each region, not the governance committee members. Regions need to give names of their representative to Judi. She will also meet with this committee over the summer to review the Policy & Procedure language and any changes needed, such as, how to handle if no candidate runs for office.
Long Range Planning expenses for consultant will roll into 2007/08.

Government Relations Committee: Jim Vallee/ Christine Sears- reported by Wayne Harewood

Meeting with legislative representatives very beneficial - opened doors and established good relationships.
Written report: In conjunction with the Tri-State Region, the Committee co-chairs planned a visit to our legislators in Washington, D.C. for May. Trip was cancelled at the last minute due to miscommunication with the hotel. Will schedule a visit to our lawmakers for the Fall. Co-chairs encouraged active participation in the legislative process at a presentation for Region II in Rochester on May 17. Over the past several months, several legislative updates have been posted to NYSFAAA-L alerting members to various New York State and Federal issues.”

Scholarship Committee: Deborah Evans

Will send solicitations for scholarships via e-mail versus U.S. mail to help save money. Held up waiting for SLATE guidelines and interpretation. Will ask for increase in donations since ‘corporate’ donations may be reduced or even eliminated.
Question on Silent Auction at conference. Concern on how gifts will be interpreted and become possible ‘news worthy’. Discussion/suggestions from council to eliminate auction and increase donations- have a ‘donation jar’, sell items for scholarship, such as, NYSFAAA t-shirts or sweatshirts.

Treasurer’s Report: Marilyn Faller

Distributed Budget Draft for 07-08 and a Budget vs. Actuals for 06-07. Draft Budget included all amounts requested by individual committees.

Discussed items that were overspent so far for 06-07 (primarily Exec Council - Professional Services and Special Meetings), and noted areas where additional expenses/revenue were still pending (primarily Novice).
Discussed difficulty getting timely information from Regional Treasuries and asked Regional Reps to remind Treasurers that quarterly financial reports were overdue.
Reviewed 05-06 audit. In general it was very good. Recommendations made by our auditors for improvements included:

o Treasurers should not pay faxed invoices or expense reports.

o All Treasurers should be photocopying checks before depositing them.

o State Treasurer should audit one or two regional treasuries per year.

o Our auditors (Alcara & Borczynksi) volunteered to archive our Treasury records. Currently all records are shipped to NYHESC for retention, but we have no access to them there and are unsure of the security of the records. Also our auditors would purge records appropriately based on IRS retention guidelines. There would be no charge for this service.

Discussed expense report submission – only members should submit expense reports, non-members should submit invoices. All invoices and expense reports must be approved (signed off) by a committee chair, officer, or regional council rep. I will be revising form to collect information more efficiently – many times I can’t tell from the expense reports which line item should be charged in the budget. The new expense report will make that more clear and will also have a line for approver’s signature.
Discussed difficulty reconciling credit card receipts because the reports I get from Go-EMerchant don’t separate conference payments from dues payments, so it’s a guessing game.
Reminded council members that all bill payments were being done through internet banking now, so there is a 3-5 day delay between my request for check to be issued and it actually going out in the mail. Also noted that I can not attach or include anything in with checks (such as registration forms).
Discussed need for Budget Committee; Regional Treasurers should be members of Finance & Budget Committee.

MOTION: To remove the word ‘Ex-Officio” after ‘Regional Treasurer’s…’ from the definition of ‘Membership’ section in the Finance and Budget Committee Policy and Procedure. Van Dekker/McDonnell. MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.

Professional Standards and Ethics Committee- Leslie Howard, Co-Chair

Currently updating committee list. Chairs were asked for a document to outline “what we do” and “we will abide by law” language, but have not moved forward due to SLATE.
At this time looking for direction from council as to the ‘focus’ of committee. Suggestions from Council: work with Conference committee as to the ‘set of acceptable behavior’, Statement of Principles- update needed, have a ‘safe harbor’ training at Conference.
At regional level- revisit the Statement of Principles at the September meeting for feedback. Follow-up at conference with a session on Statement of Principles to bring

forth the regional meeting discussions.

Further discussion on SUMMIT: Dave requested an ADHOC committee with representatives from across the state to put ideas together and come back to council with their report. Dave appointed Heather to chair this committee.

Development Committee- Katrina DelGrosso

Written 2006/07 Final Report submitted. Committee will meet at conference. Meetings have been held by conference calls.
Will need to post language to the web for 2007/08 to give sponsors some information and direction.

1st VP- Brenda Wright

Membership –

· Paying dues by credit card has been discontinued on the web as well as the advertisements. However, still receiving checks from schools versus personal checks.

· Received dues for an Associate Member from “I Have A Dream”. This employer is not on the ‘acceptable list’. Discussion - it is a Foundation.

Motion: To accept ‘I Have A Dream’ as an acceptable employer. McDonnell/Van Dekker. MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY

Brenda announced that she is leaving SUNY Albany and moving to Tampa. Will resign as 1^st VP in July. She thanked council for the opportunity to serve and all the support that she has received.
Angel asked if a membership issue can be re-visited, i.e.- membership history on the web.

Since redesigning web is up for discussion, this can be added to the ‘wish’ list.

Mentoring Committee- Chair has resigned due to work issues. Dave is searching for replacement.

Awards Committee:

Budget received by Marilyn. Discussions on Conference 2006 - ‘plaques’ were entered under ‘Conference’ expenses versus ‘Awards Committee’. Marilyn will review.
As a member of this committee Anne Barton passed on a recommendation from the Awards committee- to institute an additional regional award, ‘The Rising Star’. This would be awarded to someone who was a NYSFAAA member for 2 years or less, and had done something outstanding for the region or for NYSFAAA. The Rising Star recipient would be given a “Certificate” award at the annual conference.

Discussion on Membership Dues- with revenue issues this year, and dues have not been increased for many years, it is time to consider an increase as other professional associations have done.

MOTION: To increase the primary annual dues for Active and Associate members to $50, and $20 for each additional region. Lubold/Van Dekker. Question during discussion on retirees dues amount.

FRIENDLY AMENDMENT: To exclude retirees from the increase. Lubold/accepted by VanDekker. MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.

Discussion - members who have already paid 2007/08

MOTION: Grandfather those who have already invoiced for 2007/08 at the current rate. Miladin/ Mihopolus. APPROVED- 9, ABSTAINED- 1. MOTION CARRIES.

2^nd VP- Maria Barlaam (chairs reported in her absence) —

Professional Development Committee: Ursula Bisconti

Held up training until funding issue resolved. Looking to move forward with Tax workshops, Leadership and Immediate training. Will also review the Next Generation Committee training forum ideas to reduce costs.

· Discussion from council on the work that regions/schools are doing for these workshops There should be a member of each region on the committee; this committee would need to put something in place to orchestrate the training, rather than delegating it to either the regional officers or to the staff at the host school. (similar to the tri-regional model).

Novice Training Committee- Lisa Simpson

· 89 participants, 14 staff. Costs were $580 which included membership. Final report will be given at September meeting.

· Every 2 years committee goes out with bid for site. Will send out over the summer. May need to review cutting one day as was done this year; with no breaks, it was too intense to be fully productive the entire length of the workshop.

Conference 2008 Committee-_ Sharon reporting for J. View and B. Cheetham

Requesting budget of $20,000 for meeting and travel expenses in advance of the conference budget submission/approval in February 2008.
Marilyn will put in line item for review when council discusses budget on 6/15.

Secretary’s Report- Nancy Teodecki

Communications/Website-

Website: Ideta Daniel (report read by Nancy)

Member Survey (103 respondents) Highlights:

· Majority visit website for general information, regional news. Rated website “FAIR”.

· Comments: hard to navigate through the information/find information, signing up for regional listservs difficult, more effective use of homepage, such as, highlight activities.

ATAC has updates if we wish to institute:

· Updated online membership database and payment system; automatically subscribe members to listservs which would include regional lists; posting minutes as a ‘doc or pdf’ file; SAFARI- Student Awareness Financial Aid Resource Initiative for outreach to High Schools, Middle Schools, etc., to enable submission of events; Event Session arrangement- multiple committee members could work collectively on event session agendas.

· Cost of update $1125 and downtime of site for several days. Given the survey comments would also incorporate other changes at the same time. Will request cost from ATAC and the timing of the downtime for all changes/implementation. Estimated costs for all changes have been factored in the 2007/08 budget request.

After hearing proposed changes council agreed to move forward with the changes.

Webletter: Laura Worley (written report received shortly after meeting):

· 3 editions of the Webletter Connection in a given fiscal year: Winter Edition, Spring/Summer Edition, and Fall Edition. Each issue has approximately 6-7 articles, a letter from the NYSFAAA President and a section called “Members on the move” to highlight the accomplishments (hires, promotions, retirements) of the membership. This year we had three lender sponsors in the Fall and Winter editions of the webletter.

· One rule applies to all articles and submissions- they must be informational in nature and not promotional. Articles not in keeping with this mantra are returned with a gracious ‘thank you’ and explanation of policy.

· While efforts to have a webletter contact within each region have been attempted, information and articles through this stream have not materialized. As Editor, I announce on the listserv the need for articles and regional news one month prior to submission deadline and then again two weeks later, and then one week prior to deadline. Lenders/vendors submissions are always plentiful with their articles, while the active membership is sparse.

Early Awareness- Anne Barton, Cathy Patella co-chairs (Anne reported)

Several conference calls this year. Our major activity is the State Fair. Copies of our brochure, bookmarks, mood pencils and bracelets will be provided at the booth. Also raffling off three IPODs throughout the day to increase traffic to the booth. Families must return for the drawing at the posted time to pick up their prize.
Work is being done on updating the Early Awareness section of the website. Will also be adding links to reputable sites, such as NASFAA’s Early Awareness site, for families who visit our portion of the website.
Last fall each region made a choice as to how to reach out to Middle School counselors. Some held a separate workshop, some invited them to school counselor workshops and some only did mailings of brochures and posters to their middle school counselors. Mailing list developed of Middle Schools in N.Y. for possible use in the coming year.
GEAR-UP: ‘Renewal Application’ submitted in June for the 9/2007-8/2008 grant year.

State Fair - Sharon Karwowski

No more room unless someone withdraws.
NYSFAAA will have 2 tables.
Checks will be payable to the Fair versus NYSFAAA.
Revenue now exceeds expenses; possibly overage could go to scholarships.

High School Outreach- Karen Taylor, Linda Bridgewater, Co-chairs

The High School Workshop sub-committee met in March. Wrapped up last year’s workshops and planned for the coming year. Kathy Michalski,sub-committee chair, replaces Pat Johnson. New Region 6 coordinator, Lucy Villaquiran.
With recent events some initiatives have been placed on the back burner (i.e. updating the

NYSFAAA website to allow school counselors to register for the workshops on-line and listing

the workshops for 2007). Since there is a cost associated with updating our website to allow for

Registration we decided to remove this as a budget request which helped reduce our overall

budget. However, it is our understanding that this has been added as part of the budget request

from the Communication/Web Committee.

Took “Ask the Expert” off-line since it is not currently functional. Eliminated CAAN both as a concept and as a sub-committee; the functions of CAAN could be blended into the High School Workshop Sub-Committee. Therefore, the printing costs of the wall chart, estimated at $2,500 for 20,000 copies is now part of the budget request for the High School Workshop sub-committee. Since the wall chart is used by hundreds of legislative offices within the state, as well as many high schools statewide, wish to keep it a NYSFAAA and HESC piece. Further, HESC has graciously agreed to pay for the “Fact Sheet” as an “in-kind” service.
Looking to revise the current brochure, “What You Need to Know About: Using College Planning Services and consultants”, into a brochure which promotes the financial aid profession. Again, with the current environment re-working this brochure would better serve the financial aid community by regaining the trust of our school counselors. The cost for re-working the brochure is in the High School Outreach committee budget.
Given estimate costs provided by regional reps on the workshop committee, the workshop budget was reduced for 07/08. Discussion on cuts- some council members voiced their concern.

College Goal Sunday- L. Bridgewater

· National final report will be forwarded.

· For year 2: $22,000 left from year 1 + $50,000 from foundation = $72,000

Year 3: $35,000 from foundation

Year 4: on our own for funding.

· Council questioned how sites are picked. Linda responded that the Task Force picks based on FAFSA/TAP application data and choose those areas with the lowest average incomes along with the highest rates of paper FAFSA/TAP applications. Further discussion from council: ideas needed on ‘how to target site’; coordinating advertising/guidance community; recruiting volunteers at conference- table/pictures, show how successful it was, possible video at lunch.

Regional Reports:

Region 1: no report

Region 2: Andrea Mason

Attendance is up at meetings; more school attendance; good presentation on legislative training at recent meeting.
College Goal Sunday well attended.
Next meeting the 3rd week of September.

Region 3: Sharon Kawasaki

Regional elections results:
Gina Soliz (Syracuse University Law)– Executive Council.
Sean View- (Hobart William & Smith Colleges)- Chair
Bonnie Rooker (Cayuga Community College) -Secretary
Pat Johnson (Syracuse University)- Treasurer

A summer meeting is being planned to transition the new regional officers.
June 22nd Region 3 is holding its summer meeting at the Adam’s Mark in Buffalo, site of the 2008 conference.
The next year’s Regional meeting dates have been set and posted to the
NYSFAAA calendar. Regional budget has been submitted.

Region 4: Brenda Wright

Elections not held yet.
June meeting on the 29^th. Dave will be speaker.

Region 5: Heather McDonnell

Summer meeting cancelled due to lack of attendance.
Tri-Regional successful May 4th at NYU.
Conference 2009 committees forming this summer.

Region 6: Angela VanDekker

June 22 meeting school panel/preferred lender list, best practices/leadership training/involvement in NYSFAAA. Attendees said it was best regional meeting they have attended.
Officers running again and two nominees for Executive Council Representative.
Tri-Regional – 137 people pre-registered. Estimated attendance 130- people not involved previously came forward. Used the Region VI training survey to guide the selection of topics: Audit findings, Money Management, Web writing.
March meeting: Jim Vallee gave federal update- excellent presentation; also presentation on TOP 10 Pitfalls of FA & How to Avoid Them.
Guidance & Support Staff scheduled for Fall.
Budget submitted; trying to cut-back

Region 7: Sheryl Mihopolus

Attendance continues to be up at the regional meetings. The main focus seems to be training and guidance on legislation issues.
The College Goal Sunday event: total families 36
The FA 101 workshop for 42 ‘non-financial aid’ professional attendees - March 2 in Farmingdale. Agenda: ACG/Smart grant updates, a review of the FAFSA process, an overview of why students “lose” their aid, an overview of the aid programs, professional judgment, academic standards for progress, and the appeals process.
The Intermediate Training, April 13, Hofstra University. Agenda: ACG/Smart Grant update and discussion, Sunshine Act and the NY AG’s press release and its impact on offices. Mark Kantrowitz was the presenter. This full day of training also offered professional leadership training by an outside trainer.
The Tri-regional meeting was held on May 4 at NYU and the presenters included Dave Canaski, Jim Ross, and John Austin. The full day’s training was planned and organized by Regions 5, 6 and 7 and it was an excellent program. The agenda included a HESC update, a NYSFAAA update by Dave as well as sessions on Web Technology, Audit Findings and Financial Literacy. An exhausting, but information-packed meeting.
June 21 meeting scheduled with round table discussion and wrap up of the year.
Elections/nominations in process. Budget submitted to Treasurer.

Region 8: Kerry Lubold

Decided to return to meetings with valuable content. Will schedule 6 meetings per year.
Financial Literacy Roundtable discussion at May meeting; two topics- money management and credit cards.
Election nomination is in progress.
Region’s budget submitted to Treasurer

HESC report: Jen Dwire

Written report submitted

Default Prevention Grant is on- some revisions to accommodate SLATE.
Two new Debt Management brochures- Smart Borrowing for your Financial Future

And Managing your Student Loan Debt.

TAP Webinar for June 18^th scheduled.

AGENDA ITEM: Revision of Policy on Lender Money

Discussion: Timing of revision, Development campaign for 07/08, Expectations for fund-raising.

Concerns with schools that have not re-negotiated with AG to mirror SLATE with regards to NYSFAA as lender.
Accepting money for non-education purposes- training/outreach/scholarship.
Sponsorship: one general category, or a few categories, to line-up with procedures.
Use reserve if sponsorship down.

MOTION: To eliminate policy passed on May 14^th. McDonnell/Lubold. MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.

(May 14^th Motion was the following policy:“NYSFAAA will neither solicit nor accept any money, gifts or compensation from any entity described in S620(8)a (lenders/servicers) and/or S620(8)b (guarantee agencies) of New York State Education Law. The Treasurer and all other members of NYSFAAA will refuse any payment to NYSFAAA of any kind from such entities. If any member accepts such payment on behalf of NYSFAAA in violation of this policy, the Treasurer will immediately return the funds and report the breach of policy to the President and the Executive Council.” )

MOTION: Any activities are vetted through standing legislation that affects our members. McDonnell/ Teodecki.

Further discussion. Call the question- Teodecki. APPROVE– 9, ABSTAINED- 1. MOTION CARRIES.

AGENDA ITEM: To Delay PRESIDENT-ELECT Election- Miladin

Call for nominations next week. Election to be held mid-July

Adjourned for the day at 4:45 PM

JUNE 15

Call to order at 9:17 AM-_ Canaski

Conference 2007- Claire Jacobi

Updated budget distributed. Direction given by council to delete ‘Vendor and Advertising’ line ($16,400) from income.
Exhibit area: will discuss with hotel on arrangements for HESC versus NYSFAAA. There may be a fee for room if not enough rooms are booked since this room would be ‘split out’ from the other NYSFAAA contracted meeting rooms.
Council suggested looking at reducing expenses in the program printing area, i.e. pocket program only and detail of each session on web prior to conference.
Requested that registration fee be adjusted due to revenue reduction. Some vendors have withdrawn due to their legal advice.

MOTION: to increase the registration fee to $300, and increase day tripper to $160. Miladin/Faller. MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.

AGENDA ITEM: Acceptance of Lender Money policy

MOTION: To accept the Acceptance of Lender Money policy. Teodecki/ Mason.

Discussion and updates made to draft.

Friendly Amendment to Motion as outlined was accepted by Teodecki/Mason.

8- APPROVED, 1- OPPOSED. MOTION CARRIES as follows:

POLICY to be added to P&P Manual- ISSUE: Acceptance of Payments and Donations

POLICY: NYSFAAA will neither solicit nor accept any money, gifts or compensation, related to educational lending activities, from any entity described in S620(8)a (lenders/servicers) and/or S620(8)b (guarantee agencies) of New York State Education Law. The Treasurer and all other members of NYSFAAA will refuse any payment to NYSFAAA of any kind from such entities for such purposes.

PROCEDURES:

1- Payments from individuals of their own money for any acceptable NYSFAAA purpose or function are allowed under this policy, so long as such payments remain consistent with all other NYSFAAA policies and procedures.

2- Payment of membership dues and/or payment of participant fees for NYSFAAA activities by lending institutions (as defined above) on behalf of their own employees are acceptable under this policy.

3- Donations to NYSFAAA’s training, outreach, and/or scholarship activities by any individual or entity are acceptable under this policy, so long as such donations remain consistent with all other NYSFAAA policies and procedures.

4- Donors to NYSFAAA will receive no business or marketing benefit from NYSFAAA as quid pro quo for their donations, but all donors may be acknowledged by NYSFAAA throughout the fiscal year.

5- If any member accepts any payment on behalf of NYSFAAA in violation of this policy, the Treasurer will immediately return the funds and report the breach of policy to the President and the Executive Council.

The following replaces current language on home page of WEBSITE:

The New York State Financial Aid Administrator’s Association, Inc (NYSFAAA) does not receive any money, gifts or compensation, related to educational lending activities, from any “lending institution” as defined in S620(8)a and S620(8)b of New York State Education Law. Hence, NYSFAAA does not meet the definition of “lending institution” as defined in S620(8)c of New York State Education Law. Therefore, institutions of higher education in New York and employees of those institutions are not subject to any potential conflicts of interest or legal restrictions under NYS Education Law in their interactions with NYSFAAA.* * This statement does not constitute, and should not be construed as, legal advice.

AGENDA ITEM: Presentation of 2007/08 Budget

Reviewed and reductions made. Decided to keep revenue sharing at $20 per member per region. Treasurer requests that regions bring to the September meeting what funding is needed. Marilyn will e-mail to regional treasurers to request budget. Some of the regions have already submitted budgets.

MOTION: To accept budget as amended. McDonnell/Lubold.

MOTION APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY.

AGENDA ITEM: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL VACANCIES

With 1^st VP resigning in July will need a follow-up e-mail and/or conference call.