Minutes of the Meeting

NECSI

Board of Directors

08/10/06 Conference Call

 

The following members of the board were in attendance:  Garry Laxdal,  Kevin Brennan, Tim Lenox, Maureen Gaynor, Suzanne Sherrod and Barry Simons. Seated with the board was Steve Autor.

 

Absent:  Bob Pentico, Drew Regan

 

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

 

 

Presidents Report:  NEC has confirmed for our Fall Meeting dates of Oct 26th and 27th.  NEC has a new VP of Sales, Mr. Jeff Kane.

 

Treasurers Report:    No material changes. Membership dues on target. Business Partners dues will not reach budget. Expected operating surplus of $30,000. Mr. Autor reported receivables are current. Expenses are under budget especially board travel expenses.  Financials approved on a unanimous vote with motion by Ms. Gaynor second by Ms. Sherrod.

 

Secretary Report:  Minutes from July approved on a motion by Mr. Simons seconded by Mr. Laxdal; passed unanimously.

 

Business Partners Report:

No changes.  Recommendation to review advertising rates for directory before next year.

 

Membership Report:

Mr. Autor reports NECSI is no longer receiving notification from NEC of dealer database changes. We need this information to send membership packets. Mr. Simons will address this with Mr. Viola of NEC.

 

Old Business:

Newsletter: First Color issue went out – looks nice. Motion made by Ms. Sherrod to increase advertising rates 5% effective Jan 2007. Seconded by Mr. Simons. Passed unanimously.  Mr. Simons requests each board member to commit to produce one article each. Mr. Simons will request of Mr. Scott Espy of NEC a Sales Corner for each newsletter.

 

IRS –Incorporation documents are filed with State of Illinois. Expect approval within 30 days as reported by Mr. Autor.  Next step is CPA starts process with IRS.

 

Multi Location Agreement: Completed and Mr. Simons will draft an email to the membership with the agreement link inside the email. Mr. Autor will update the website with the new agreement.

 

Survey Drawing: Mr. Simons will provide Mr. Autor and Ms. Sherrod with the names of the winners from the IPKII Survey for payment and inclusion in the newsletter.

 

LEAD PROGRAM: Mr. Simons reported Eprospector is still willing to do 5 pilot programs for $1400/each for 2,000 names or $1750 for 3000 names. Mr. Simons, Ms. Gaynor are in discussion with Tom about the product. Mr. Simons will broadcast em the membership for any other interested parties for this pilot program.

 

New Business:

 

ONE NEC EVENT:  As reported by Ms. Gaynor, she and Mr. Pentico attended this event in San Jose, CA to represent NECSI. NECSI board was invited to this exclusive reception to celebrate the new NEC AMERICA corporation. NEC will reside under a single umbrella and leadership team to bring cohesive timely products and services to the channel.  Ms. Gaynor and Mr. Pentico had dinner with Mr. Charlie Langdon and guests immediately following the event.  A motion was made by Mr. Simons; seconded by Mr. Laxdal to approve reimbursement of the travel expenses for this NEC event. Passed unanimously.

 

WEBSITE:  Tabled discussion for next meeting of selection process and budget for new webmaster/web company.

 

 

 

 

Meeting was adjourned at 2:10pm