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North American Serials Interest GroupNASIG NewsletterEXECUTIVE BOARD MINUTES Bea Caraway, NASIG Secretary Date, Time: June 25, 2003, 7:59 A.M. - 4:52 P.M. Attending: Members-at-Large: Guests: 1.0 Welcome (Cook) Cook called the meeting to order at 7:59 AM. She welcomed everyone to the meeting, especially the incoming officers and members-at-large. 2.0 Secretary's report (Caraway) 2.1 The board approved, as amended by Geller, the board actions taken since the midwinter board meeting, January 23, 2003, as follows: 2/7/03 Approved minutes of the January 2003 board meeting. 2/24/03 Authorized NASIG to donate $50 towards the NYTSL reception. Mary Page will find someone to represent NASIG at the reception if possible, and brochures will be available at the reception. Eleanor has responded to Rhonda Marker, who made the original inquiry about NASIG's participation. 2/24/03 Accepted, with gratitude, the Publication Committee's final report on and recommendations for making conference handouts available online rather than in print and for a fee. 3/31/03 Accepted the recommendations the Awards and Recognition Committee made for recipients of the 2003 NASIG Conference Student Grants, the Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship, and the Horizon Award. 4/4/03 Approved hiring Betty Kjellberg to do a Program Planning Committee facilitation at Portland in June 2003. 4/9/03 Accepted the recommendation of the Awards and Recognition Committee to award the Mexican Student Grant to Pablo Carrasco Rentería. The board thanked Awards and Recognition Committee members and especially Lisa Furubotten and Joe Hinger. 4/9/03 Accepted the recommendation of the co-chairs of the Awards and Recognition Committee to reject the Tuttle Award applicant on the basis that the travel in the proposal did not constitute international travel or research and that research on a serials-related theme was only peripheral to the project. In addition, the board charged the Awards and Recognition Committee to clarify the requirements of the Tuttle Award to ensure a) that there is recognition and understanding that the name of the organization is the NORTH AMERICAN SERIALS INTEREST GROUP and that travel between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico does not constitute international travel for the purpose of this award. Proposals of research and travel from one of the countries in North America to another country in North America shall be considered void and invalid, and b) that any future proposed projects for the Tuttle Award must have major focus on some aspect of the serials information chain. 6/6/03 Voted to appoint Kevin Randall to complete Daniel Jones' term as member-at-large. 6/10/03 Voted to issue only the conference theme, and not the call for papers as stipulated in the working calendar. The NASIG-L message unveiling the theme will explain that we are rethinking the program and will note that we will be issuing the call for papers later in the summer. 2.2 Board roster updates Caraway distributed copies of the 2003/2004 board rosters and asked board members to make corrections. 2.3 Revisions to the executive working calendar Caraway asked for changes needing to be made to the executive working calendar. No changes were noted. Caraway asked that board members contact her as they work with the calendar and discover inaccuracies or needed revisions. 2.4 NASIG note cards Caraway reported that she had ordered and received 1,000 NASIG note cards with the blue and green NASIG logo on the front, and that she had already sent a supply to the president and the vice president for their use. She encouraged others who need them to ask for a supply. 3.0 Publicist's report (Rioux) Rioux reported that all of the membership brochures (English, Spanish, and French) had been placed on NASIGWeb. During the year, she distributed 1,145 English brochures, 35 Spanish brochures, and 25 French brochures. Rioux posted 16 announcements and reminders to various lists during the year. Before stepping down as publicist, Rioux wrote a procedures document, the first of its kind for this position, for the incoming publicist to use. It includes instructions for subscribing and posting to all the email lists and suggestions for managing the subscriptions. The document also covers brochures and other publicist responsibilities. 4.0 Treasurer's report (Novak) Novak reported an active membership of 1,274 as of June 23, 2003. She continues to process about two memberships weekly as they come in. She pointed out that processing the 2003 NASIG conference registrations was quite time-consuming this year, as there were several people involved in verifying each registration. 4.1 Financial reports NASIG's assets as of June 8, 2003, totaled $283,431.10; liabilities totaled $0.00. Conference expenses, when paid following the 2003 meeting, will reduce NASIG's assets somewhat. In discussing conference income and expenditures, Novak noted that the costs for buses and the fees for the Portland Visitors Association were covered by the refund NASIG received from William and Mary following the 2002 conference. 4.2 Report on conference calling Novak reported that she had requested and received information from about ten telecommunications companies for telephone conferencing. (The board may consider Internet conferencing services in the future.) She advised considering only those plans which charge neither set-up nor monthly fees. After consideration of the plan, the board agreed to accept Novak's recommendation to use the plan from Netspoke. She will contact Netspoke to set up an account. In a related vein, Cook suggested that committee chairs who are unable to make long-distance calls from their work phones should buy phone cards after consultation with their board liaison and use the non-travel reimbursement form for reimbursement. Any card with minutes remaining on it should be passed on to the incoming chair at the end of the chair's term. ACTION: Novak to set up an account with Netspoke. 4.3 Investment strategy report Novak reported that she had investigated alternatives to keeping NASIG's investments with Charles Schwab because of the cumbersome annual process Schwab requires for getting signatures of authorized agents. She discovered that other institutions, e.g., Bank of America, are not interested in serving smaller organizations such as NASIG, and that they charge inordinately high fees. Based on her findings, she recommended and the board agreed to stay with Schwab. Novak passed around the appropriate signature forms to the appropriate officers for signing. Novak suggested that, in the future, the outgoing treasurer work closely with the incoming treasurer on these procedures, which she is updating as she revises the treasurer's manual. 5.0 Conference Planning Committee report (Kern, Stewart, Tenney) Kern and Stewart expressed special appreciation for the contributions of the Portland State University administration and library administration, to Joyce Tenney (board liaison), to the PPC, to Kerry McQuaid (graphic designer for the website and brochure), and to members of the CPC. They also expressed gratitude to Stephanie Schmitt, Denise Novak, and Sandra Beehler for their help with registration and with implementing online registration this year. As of June 25, 2003, total registrants numbered 584 (445 members, 132 non-members, 38 guests, 190 first-timers). \The board commended CPC on a job well done, and McKee took note in particular of the usefulness and creativity of the local information provided on the conference website. 6.0 Committee reports 6.1 Archives (Caraway) Caraway reported that NASIG Archivist Lange had carried out her duties commendably during the year, reorganizing the archives in accordance with the series arrangement proposed by the previous archivist, Marilyn Fletcher, and approved by the board, seeking a permanent home for the archives, and adding new materials to the archives. 6.1.1 Permanent Location Caraway reported that Lange had worked out nearly all the details of a transfer of the NASIG archives to the University of Illinois archives. The initial cost would be approximately $1,000, to cover the cost of initial processing and provide a cushion for additional materials in the future. The archives at University of Illinois will provide a finding aid on their website once the materials are processed. Access to the conference summary evaluations can be restricted to meet NASIG's confidentiality requirement for these materials. The University of Illinois will not accept souvenirs or other realia. Discussion ensued about managing the souvenirs. The board agreed that the NASIG archivist would continue to keep the box of souvenirs and transfer it to his or her successor as long as they remain manageable. In addition, the board would like for the archivist to pursue the possibility of taking digital photos of all souvenirs, sending prints to the archives at University of Illinois, and mounting (or getting help from the Electronic Communications Committee for mounting) the digital images in an online souvenir gallery. The board also asked 1) for the specific fee(s) associated with having requests for copies of archival materials fulfilled and 2) that any eventual contract with the University of Illinois specify that NASIG can take possession of its archival materials if the board decides that is advisable. ACTION: Lange to ask about fees for photocopies of materials requested. ACTION: Proceed with the transfer of archives to the University of Illinois, including discussing a contract with the University of Illinois archivist. Lange will request the inclusion of a phrase specifying that NASIG may in the future take possession again of its materials. The board wishes to thank Lange for her contributions in arranging for a permanent home for the NASIG archives. 6.2 Bylaws (Cook for Jones) Cook reported that the Bylaws Committee had conducted two bylaws votes in the spring of 2003, with the following results: Proposal #1 - Creation of Corresponding Member Category: 346 Yes (voting to create the new member category) Proposal #2 - Change Method of Notification of Proposed Bylaws Changes: 364 Yes (voting to change the method of notification) Cook reported that Hartmut Walravens, German Serials Interest Group, submitted the first membership form for a corresponding membership. When there is a question about whether an organization qualifies as a peer organization eligible for corresponding membership, the president will determine its eligibility. In general, peer organizations will not include regional organizations. The board expressed thanks for the committee's work on the two bylaws changes in 2002/2003. 6.3 Awards and Recognition (Tenney) Tenney reported that electronic submission of application materials and the distribution of materials electronically to committee members for review went well. Out of 48 applications for various awards, 32 were submitted electronically. Because of the difficulty of scanning print materials to mount on the committee's web space for review, and because of having to maintain two separate workflows based on format, the committee recommended to the board, and the board agreed, that in the future, all applications must be submitted electronically. ACTION: Awards and Recognition Committee to revise all award guidelines to reflect the requirement that all applications be submitted electronically. It was noted that the number of applicants for the Tuttle award has been low, and that the call for applications should go out 6 months ahead of the due date and should include the abstracts of previous winning proposals. ACTION: McKee to direct the PR and Outreach Task Force to consider ways to publicize the Tuttle and other awards. The committee posted or updated an FAQ on the NASIG website for each of the following awards: NASIG Conference Student Grant, Marcia Tuttle International Grant, and Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship. In addition, the committee decided on an engraved crystal box to replace the round pewter box as the thank-you gift for outgoing chairs and board members. Award winners for 2002/2003 follow: NASIG Conference Student Grant winners: Dana Antonucci-Durgan (Queens College, City University of New York), Lisa Bowman (Emporia State University), Fang Gao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Rebecca Soltys Jones University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jacalyn Spoon (State University of New York at Buffalo) Mexico Student Conference Grant: Pablo Carrasco Rentería (Escuela Nacional de Biblioteconomía y Archivonomía, Mexico City, Mexico) Fritz Schwartz Serials Education Scholarship: Lyudmila Shpilevaya (Long Island University, Palmer School of Library and Information Science) Horizon Award: Sarah Sutton (Serials Librarian, Texas A & M University) Committee chairs Joan Lamborn and Philanese Slaughter expressed special thanks to Jeff Slagell for setting up the committee website for application materials; Susan Davis for making hotel and travel arrangements for the award winners; Virginia Taffurelli for serving as her back-up; and to all the committee members for their hard work. The board thanked the committee for their diligence and good judgment in carrying out their responsibilities. 6.4 Continuing Education (Randall) Randall reported that the CEC had sponsored 9 programs or speakers since the 2002 annual conference, had managed the mentoring program for the 2002 conference, had selected the Mexico Student Grant winner for 2002, and had provided financial support for Canadians attending the SCCTP train-the-trainer workshops for the integrating resources course. So far in 2003/2004, 2 programs are planned. Because NASIG committee structure is presently undergoing some modest changes, the mentoring program for 2004 will report directly to the past president, Eleanor Cook. Carole Bell will serve as consultant to the program after she rotates off the CEC. Responsibility for the Mexico Student Conference Grant is presently transferring from CEC to the Awards and Recognition Committee. Finally, responsibility for the NASIG Human Resource Directory has been transferred this year from CEC to the Publications Committee. The board approved a proposal by CEC to change the way in which the committee's annual budget requests are structured. The committee will ask for funds for the specific projects they know about at the time of annual budget request in October; then, they will also request extra money to fund additional projects as they become known during the year. The CEC, and specifically Deberah England and Kim Maxwell, proposed retaining the library school outreach program within CEC and completely revamping it. The board agreed that the plan they have presented for outreach is an excellent one; however, McKee will pass the topic on to the PR and Outreach Task Force, who will consider the plan and recommend which committee should ultimately be responsible for such a plan. It is the board's wish that those who originally proposed the plan be offered the opportunity to serve on whatever committee takes it on. To complete the discussion, Geller suggested that outreach efforts target not only library and information science programs, but also masters programs in publishing. ACTION: McKee to instruct the PR and Outreach Task Force to take under consideration the most appropriate committee to manage a library school outreach program. 6.5 Database and Directory (Randall) Randall reported that the 2003 directory was printed and ready to go out the week following the conference. Otherwise, the committee had fulfilled its usual obligations, including sending renewal notices in October and reminders in January. The renewal rate for 2003 was 86.1%, up from 85.2% in 2002. After considerable board discussion of the pros and cons of moving to an exclusively online directory, the board decided that the committee should draft a survey of the membership on the topic of the format of the directory, to be sent out and returned with the 2004 renewal forms. ACTION: D&D to draft a directory survey to submit to the board for review. 6.6 Electronic Communications Committee Persing reported that in addition to their usual responsibilities, the ECC had assisted with the implementation of online registration by creating a new email list to assist with online payment of registration fees. From now on, an ECC member will serve as online registration manager to provide technical assistance in coordination with the Conference Planning and Program Planning Committees. Webspinner Sarah George served as liaison to the Online Registration Implementation Group. List manager David Bynog added several new discussion lists. Our ISP installed new filtering software to eliminate problems with spam. NASIG renewed its domain name, nasig.org, for three more years. Board discussion produced three ideas for consideration: 1) ECC could mount a skeletal conference website on NASIGWeb by September and manage it until the new CPC can take it over. This could be a template that is used year to year. 2) ECC could develop an orientation for incoming committee web liaisons, to be held perhaps during the user group or networking node time slot. 3) ECC could create a program (preconference or workshop) for the next NASIG conference. The board thanked the committee for its efficiency and professionalism in managing NASIGWeb and the NASIG email lists. 6.7 Evaluation and Assessment (Persing) Persing reported that the committee had prepared the conference evaluation form for the 2003 conference and that members were ready to begin tabulation of the forms immediately after the conference. The summary report should appear in the December issue of the newsletter. Geller suggested that the EAC should explore the possibility of moving the evaluation form to a web-based format. ACTION: EAC to investigate the possibilities and submit a report to the board. 6.8 Newsletter (Simser) Simser reported that all 4 of the 2002/2003 issues were available in HTML format on schedule, but that the PDF version of the December issue was delayed. She thanked all the production staff for a job well done. Plans for 2003/2004 include training a new HTML editor and a new columns editor, completing work on the Newsletter manual, and continuing efforts to increase the number of NASIG profiles in each issue. 6.8.1 Search feature on NASIGWeb ACTION: Simser to follow up on this. 6.8.2. Photo archive on NASIGWeb Any consideration of mounting a photo archive on NASIGWeb should also take into account a gallery of NASIG conference souvenirs. Advice is needed from ECC regarding standards for format, file size, and so forth. ACTION: Simser to continue discussions with ECC and report back to the board. UKSG has recently begun publication of Serials-eNews, a weekly compilation of news of import to serialists. Helen Henderson (UKSG) and Judy Luther (NASIG member) have proposed that NASIG consider working with UKSG to incorporate NASIG news items into the Serials-eNews. All NASIG members would gain access to the UKSG publication. The benefit to NASIG is that the publication reaches many non-NASIG members internationally and would thus support the strategic plan direction of globalizing our organization. One consideration is that any eventual paid advertising in the publication could make the arrangement inconsistent with NASIG's non-commercial stance, so that this aspect would need to be specified in any contract with UKSG. McKee agreed to serve as board liaison to UKSG in this matter. ACTION: McKee to contact UKSG and ask for a proposal for cooperating on Serials e-News. Rioux reported that the Nominations and Elections Committee completed their assigned tasks successfully and efficiently this year. Forty-five percent of the membership voted in the 2003 election. Newly elected board members are Steve Savage (vice president/president-elect), Denise Novak (treasurer), and Carol MacAdam, Mary Page, and Stephanie Schmitt (members-at-large). The committee recommends that the board consider codifying a true petition process that goes beyond the write-in process accounted for in the bylaws, with a view toward opening up the election process more fully to the membership. After discussion, the board agreed that the notion had merit, and that the Bylaws Committee should draft a process and then send it back to Nominations and Elections for their input. ACTION: Bylaws Committee to draft a process for establishing a way to include petition candidates on the ballot, then share the draft with Nominations and Elections for their review and input. ACTION: Nominations and Elections Committee to include on NASIGWeb the weighting system used in assessing potential candidates. The committee will also tell potential candidates at the very beginning about the weighting system. ACTION: Simser to be sure to include this information in the profile of the Nominations and Elections Committee in the NASIG Newsletter. Novak pointed out that several ballots were diverted to NASIG's permanent address in Georgia because the return address extended too far toward the middle of the envelope and caused the postal reader to use that as the mailing address, rather than recognizing it as the return address. ACTION: Secretary to ensure that the return address on all NASIG envelopes be placed far enough to the left not to interfere with delivery. 6.10 Proceedings (Page) Page reported that the Proceedings from the 2002 conference had been published in mid-May 2003. Order forms for members were to be made available at the information table at the 2003 conference. The editors for the 2003 conference proceedings are Patricia French (UC Davis) and Richard Worthing (California State Library). The board commended outgoing editors Shelley Neville and Susan Scheiberg for an excellent job on the conference proceedings for both 2001 and 2002. Board discussion centered generally on NASIG's relationship with Haworth Press, the publisher of the conference proceedings. 6.11 Publications (Geller) Geller reported that 146 conference handout packets from the 2002 conference had been ordered and mailed. For the 2003 conference, the committee established a procedure whereby handouts are to be made available on NASIGWeb for downloading by members, which will save considerable time and resources. In addition, work is progressing on the adaptation of content supporting a NASIGuide to Serial Holdings. NASIG members Frieda Rosenberg and Betty Landesman are developing this guide, which should become available during the year. Discussions with ALA/ALCTS Serials Section have been ongoing during the year, and have established that both parties are interested in collaborating in some way, whether for an online serials course or for some other project. NASIG president McKee and NASIG member-at-large andALCTS Serials Section chair Page will appoint a task force to explore cooperation on this front. ACTION: McKee and Page to appoint a joint NASIG/ALCTS task force to investigate cooperation between the two groups. 6.12 Regional Councils and Membership (Geller) RC&M carried out their traditional activities, which included promoting NASIG membership and distributing brochures at local, regional, and international meetings, at library schools, and informally. They sent mailings to 142 non-member attendees of the 2002 conference, encouraging them to join NASIG, and sent new-member packets and emails to new members. Local representatives contacted new members in their respective areas. In preparation for the disbanding of RC&M, decided upon at the January 2003 board meeting, committee members and reps have been shipping NASIG banners in their possession to the NASIG secretary, who has thus far received 6 of the 13 banners. The board wishes to thank the members and chair of RC&M for their work and their creative ideas about the reinvention of RC&M, especially as NASIG says farewell to this committee. 6.13 NASIG Public Relations and Outreach Task Force (McKee, Cook) McKee and Cook reported that this new task force, appointed in the spring, is charged with reviewing the former Regional Councils and Membership Committee's charge and responsibilities and recommending a replacement committee that can address these needs and others that are relevant to public relations and outreach efforts. The new committee should be responsible for the following: New-member recruitment The task force should recommend if the Mentoring Program should reside with the new committee or recommend another home for it. [NOTE: The Mentoring Program, which is currently part of the Continuing Education Committee, was to be relocated with the Regional Councils and Membership Committee in 2003/2004. Since RC&M is being reconstituted, the Mentoring Program will stand alone for one year. The board liaison for the Mentoring Program for 2003/2004 will be past-president Eleanor Cook.] A new committee focused on public relations and outreach activities will be constituted for 2003/2004; the president-elect for 2003/2004 will make appointments for the new committee. This task force will be apprised of NASIG's strategic planning process, which is currently underway. Background documents and the actual strategic planning document, which is being drafted now, will be shared with this task force as they become available. McKee and Cook indicated that the task force would be meeting 2 or 3 times at the 2003 conference and that they would continue to work via email afterwards. During the board meeting, two new items were added to the task force's agenda: Consider ways to publicize the Tuttle and other awards; consider the plan proposed by CEC for library school outreach and recommend which committee should ultimately be responsible for such a plan. 6.14 Professional liaisons (Cook for Jones) Because of Danny Jones' resignation as member-at-large and liaison to the professional liaisons group, Cook reported to the board. New appointments for the year included Keith Courtney (United Kingdom Serials Group) 2003-, Maggie Wineburgh-Freed (Medical Library Association) 2003-2005, October Ivins (Society for Scholarly Publishing) 2003-, and Rollo Turner (Association of Subscription Agents) 2003-. The establishment of a liaison relationship with ASA is new this year. NASIG dropped the liaison relationship with the Journals Committee of the Professional Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers, with the Canadian Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee, and with the STM Library Relations Committee as these groups are either dormant or not active enough to maintain such a relationship at this time. Still pending are appointments to the Special Libraries Association and to the Canadian Library Association. It had been suggested to attempt to establish a liaison with ICEDIS, but that remains to be investigated. Carol MacAdam, incoming member-at-large, will serve as board liaison to this group in 2003/2004. ACTION: MacAdam to identify a liaison for SLA, CLA, and at the suggestion of the board, for AALL. McKee reported for the PPC and commended them and their co-chairs highly for their great strides in reshaping and renewing programming in a single year. Some of the changes included a hot topics session, a town hall meeting, offering 45 minutes more free time during the conference, having shorter workshops, offering two types of workshops (workplace skills and research), and repeating only some of the workshops rather than all of them. 6.15.1 PPC retreat McKee reported that during the Portland conference, organizational consultant Betty Kjellberg was to lead two half-day sessions for the 2004 PPC members, along with 2003 co-chairs Manuel and Sullivan, in order to help them brainstorm ways to continue to reinvent conference programming. McKee pointed out that changes in programming will entail numerous changes in other policies and procedures, for example, in reimbursement policies and in schedules for submitting and approving program proposals. Co-chairs Kate Manuel, Charity Martin, and Sherry Sullivan thanked the 2003 PPC members for their hard work and creative input. 7.0 NASIG 2004 in Milwaukee (McKee, Novak) McKee and Novak reported that, as announced previously, the 2004 conference will be held in Milwaukee. The conference hotel is the Hilton, similar in style to the Palmer House in Chicago. Nightly rate will be $105 plus tax. The Hilton will be able to accommodate all participants and all meetings. The Milwaukee Public Library will allow NASIG participants use of their Internet café free of charge as well as, possibly, their auditorium for the opening session. 7.1 Conference and hotel registration For purposes of efficiency and accuracy, treasurer Novak asked that NASIG require all conference participants to complete registration online for 2004, even if they prefer to take care of payment by another means. This will require, of course, that some provision be made for people who do not have access to the appropriate web browser. The board agreed to make online registration a requirement for 2004. ACTION: McKee to communicate this requirement to the CPC and to the ECC registration liaison for action. The board also agreed that the daily commuter fees be set so that they total a higher figure than the full conference fee. The board discussed the possibility of setting a lower rate for members than for non-members, which would require that renewals be completed or memberships be taken out by February 1 of each year. Any such change must be well publicized in advance of registration and of the renewal deadline. ACTION: CPC to take under consideration a differential rate for members and non-members and report back to the board. 7.2 Late-night socials Board discussion of late-night socials centered on the need for a central meeting place for socializing after the official evening events are over and on the problems of liability and cost. Further discussion of late-night socials for 2004 will take place after the board receives feedback on this year's arrangement. 8.0 NASIG 2005 (Page) Page reported that the site selection group for the 2005 conference recommends the weekend of May 19-22, 2005, because of the much lower room rates offered at that time. She noted that both Minneapolis and St. Paul had advantages and disadvantages having to do with possible venues for evening events, hotel accommodations, public transit, and so forth. More investigation needs to be done before a recommendation can be made. ACTION: Page to ask the visitors and convention bureaus in the two cities to send proposals to her for board consideration. The board discussed the importance of including a cancellation clause in any contract to cover bioterrorism, epidemics, and so forth. The board approved inviting a representative from the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Convention and Visitors Bureau to come to the fall meeting at his or her organization's expense. 9.0 Committee appointments for 2003/04 (McKee) 9.1 Board liaison assignments McKee reported that all liaison assignments were complete. 9.2 Committee chair orientation McKee reminded all board members to attend the new committee chair orientation during the conference. 9.3 New board member orientation McKee announced the new board member orientation would take place on Thursday morning of the conference at 7:30 AM at the Riverplace Hotel on Harbor Way. 9.4 Date for fall board meeting The fall board meeting date is set for October 24-25, 2003, in Milwaukee. The midwinter board meeting will be held January 8, 2004, in San Diego. ACTION: McKee will consider assigning a mentor for newly elected board members once the election results are known in the spring. 10.0 Review of opening session and business meeting (Cook) Cook reviewed the agendas for the opening session on Thursday night and for the business meeting on Friday morning. 11.0 Strategic Planning Task Force Report Cook expressed heartiest commendation to the task force members for their excellent and expeditious work in providing the excellent final report of the Strategic Planning Task Force on time. The board engaged in extensive discussion of issues and concerns section by section, making a very few changes to the report. Rioux moved (McKee seconded) that the board accept with thanks the final report of the Strategic Planning Task Force as amended. The motion passed unanimously. Rioux moved (Geller seconded) that the board adopt for implementation the final report of the Strategic Planning Task Force, as amended, as NASIG's strategic plan for the next three years. The motion passed unanimously. At 4:52 PM, Persing moved that the meeting be adjourned. Cook declared the meeting adjourned |
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