Minutes of the Meeting

NECSI

Board of Directors

04/13/06 Conference Call

 

The following members of the board were in attendance:  Suzanne Sherrod, Drew Regan, Kevin Brennan, Bob Pentico, Maureen Gaynor, and Barry Simons. Seated with the board was Steve Autor.

Absent:  Mr. Lenox, and Mr. Laxdal

 

President, Barry Simons, called meeting to order at 1pm.

 

 

Presidents Report:

Annual Meeting Thursday May 4th last item in the day. Mr. Simons will draft the powerpoint presentation to include NECSI accomplishments and some results from the last survey. Goal is to increase awareness of NECSI and our role with dealer channel and NEC such that we can increase membership and survey participation.

 

Treasurers Reports:    Cash is good ($97,000). Suggest we solicit ideas from membership at annual meeting for programs. Budget reviewed with no issues reported.

 

Secretary Report:  Minutes from March 9, 2006 and March 22, 2006 approved on a motion by Ms. Gaynor seconded by Ms. Sherrod; passed unanimously.

 

Business Partners Report:

Existing BP are NEC, BBX, NEC Financial, and AVST.

Newly signed Federal Telecom.  Mr. Simons will approach Active Voice and he has attempted contact with to CSC.  Ms. Sherrod has approached Craig Hansen of CASH Call Accounting but NEC has partnered with TriVium. Advertisers include Telecom Tactics, ConferTel, Premier Technologies and Active Voice.

 

Old Business:

Newsletter: Need improvement in content from membership. Suggest we create a standard format including Technical Corner, Sales Corner, Financial Corner etc and we will solicit our business partners to submit content. Mr. Simons will draft a new format for board input.

 

Directory: Do not bring 100 to Advantage as we are now mailing a copy to every NEC dealer.

 

Administrative and Web Services Contracts – Mr. Simons will execute.

 

IRS – Mr. Simons will hire a large firm to resolve the issue after April 15th.

 

Business Partners Revised Agreement: On a motion by Mr. Pentico, seconded by Ms. Sherrod the agreement with minor directed modification to remove duplication was unanimously approved.

 

New Business:

MA4000 certification needs to be offered via online training course for technicians and end users. It should be free especially when end user purchases the maintenance from NEC.

 

Multi Location Agreement: Mr. Pentico will draft a revised agreement and submit to the board for input.

 

Committee Assignments: Mr. Pentico reported the Product Committee has met and will solicit input at the Annual Meeting.  Mr. Simons reported that Mr. Laxdal has started discussions with Mr. Krauser on Specials and Promotional Programs.

 

June Meeting with NEC:  Survey topics needed so that we meet our deadline of June 1st to close the survey to present findings to NEC June 12th and 13th. Suggestion was made to focus on the IPKII. 

 

Meeting was adjourned at 2pm