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Minutes of Chapter Meeting, September 20, 2000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jake Wildstrom)
Sun Oct 8 21:10:42 2000
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 21:10:34 EDT
From: Jake Wildstrom <wild_dj@MIT.EDU>
Minutes of Chapter Meeting, September 20, 2000
Administrative notes:
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Start: 7:40 pm; End: 8:45 pm Present: Mike Salib, Ray, Celine, Ian,
Carolyn, Jake, Merry, Susan D., Davidmac, Lokie, Katherine, Scott (?)
Officers' reports:
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SVP (Sam): We have a project at Boston Food Bank this Saturday.
Chapter Weekend I is a week from then. If you want to be a
sub-PC for Chapter Weekend tell me and Sam. Also, we heard
from Alphi Gamma Eta Chapter, who want people to help plan
service projects for Nationals.
MVP (Ann Marie): We had four pledges at the last ceremony, and
there'll be another ceremony this Saturday.
FVP (Joe): Couch destruction happened, PCed by Jesse. Steak Fry
will happen Saturday. Eric and Susama are PCs for that. The
DJR order is going out soon, so check to see that you're getting
what you want. At some point we'll have a Fellowship Militia
meeting.
Treasurer (Oscar): Dues are due. If you want to be an active, pay
now. You should pay off your debtlist too. If you make change
for drop posters from soda fridge or pocket, please write down
what you did somewhere noticable. Money should always be
put in the strongbox, never in my desk or mailbox.
AC (Ian): Minutes do and will happen. genminutes sucks.
APOcEd (Nitin): not present
OM (Ray): If you have stuff you don't want auctioned in the office,
take it out now.
PubDir (Katherine): not present
Historian (Celine): I've taken some pictres but won't be at this
weekend's project. Someone else should do that. Also, I'd like
to learn about the current state of the family trees.
Advisory Comm. Chair (Ellen): not present
President (Carolyn): Chapter exists. If you want to be part, pay
Ian.
Committee reports:
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ScrewComm (Davidmac): Another chapter's doing Big Screw and
has access to someone who can make the screw trophy. We
should talk with them, since we need a new trophy screw.
BookEx (Caroyln): We are having Book Exchange pickup next week.
Sign up for hours.
Coke: Deferred to Old Business.
FinComm (Ian): We haven't met yet.
Old Business:
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Soda Fridge:
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Laura: We talked about raising prices on stuff. This is because the
budget says we should make money on Coke and we're breaking
even.
Carolyn: ExecComm brought up other reasons we might be losing
money. We should follow up on those.
Laura: (channeling Emily) Motion to untable motion to raise prices.
Motion passes, 5-0-2.
David: The point Emily raised in her e-mail is: should Coke be a
revenue source for the chapter? We're currently budgeted for a
net of $500.
Carolyn: I feel the chapter shouldn't be deliberately making money
on the Coke, but coming as close to breaking even as possible
without losing money. Better tracking of the funds relating to
Soda Fridge would help.
Motion fails, 0-6-1.
Legislation:
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Carolyn: I was going to write up legislation for Nationals this year
concerning the section of the pledge ceremony about the pin.
We discussed this two years ago and nothing came of it. I don't
have it written up, but the gist of what we're looking for is
removing the phrase "the pin is the property of the chapter" and
toning down the immediately following language. Also, because
time is short for submission, it'd be good if we could approve
the legislation sight unseen and outline what it should say.
Meredith: Can we make such a change in the ceremony optional, at
the discretion of individual chapters?
Carolyn: Motion to submit legislation to nationals making the phrase
"the pin is the property of the chapter. . . until your induction
into active membership" optionally replaced by "the pin should
be work until your induction into active membership."
Motion passes, 8-0-1.
Drop Posters:
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PubDir (Katherine): Current policy involves payment on return of
materials. I think we should be collecting on purchase so we
don't rack up unpaid poster debts.
Carolyn: What about late fees?
Katherine: We can collect those if necessary on return of collateral.
We rarely have to anyways.
Jake: Would we be leaving this money lying around?
Katherine: The money can be put in the strongbox on payment with
a note.
Carolyn: We should have a polcy written up for this.
Advisors:
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Laura: We're working on getting a new advisor. First we have to
approve the advisors we have now, who are Andy Eisenmann,
David Staelin, Dorothy Bowe, Jim and Amanda Chesna, Joe
Kuchta, Robert Rose, Ellen Kranzer, and Yale Zussman. Na-
tionals require at least two faculty, one scouting contact, and
one other advisor to be in good standing. Our bylaws require at
least 3 faculty and 2 members of the scouting community. Andy
Eisenmann is still faculty, although in a different positin than
before.
Motion to approve the advisor list passes by white ballot.
New Business:
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None.
Announcements:
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Ian: Pay your debts. Dues are due by the end of this meeting but I'll
be lenient.
Carolyn: Food Bank is this weekend. After that, we'll have Chapter
Weekend I. Give me projects!
Laura: Anyone want to coordinate a group going to Nationals? Talk
to me.
Meredith: Come to Steak Fry!
Katherine: Give me office ours.
Scott: Hi, I'm Scott. I'm a grad here now, and I did my undergrad at
WPI.
PFTGOTO:
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David: Hosage.
Carolyn: . There was sun today. Bounce.
Meredith: Going out on the roof in thunderstorms is fun.
Lokie: Admin Office people are dorks.
Ian: Origin.
