I. Call to order 10:17 a.m.

II. Secretary’s Report - Motion to accept minutes by Andrew. Second Blake. All accepted.

III. Treasurer’s Report

a. Biggest expense was tax preparation - $80 more than last year but that included the regional tax information. Total current assets $14960.03, total liabilities & equity $35,460.03.

b. Motion to accept treasurers report Jess. Second Andrew. All accepted.

IV. Grand Reunion

a. The Grand Reunion viewed as a success. Sue has most of regional report done, waiting on financials and some minor things for finalization.

b. Treasurer’s Report

Profit & Loss – minimal changes since last meeting – few expenses paid. Outstanding: Hope issue, Dr. Piersin from Illinois is owed approximately 1,100. We are waiting on receipts and an invoice from him and he has failed to respond as of yet. Blake will call Stacy Douglas (Dr. Piersin contact) at Trinity International today, and give him until Monday February 10 to get us his information. He was already given this deadline by Mike Kuzak on Monday, February 2.

Motion to accept Grand Reunion Treasurer’s Report mad by Andrew. Second by Blake. All accepted.

c. Hope-Geneva Bookstore Expense

A request for $5000 was made by Mark Cook to Mike Kuzak. He is asking for essentially reimbursement for wages that Hope paid Sue for work she did on the regional. Some monies are paid directly to Sue, some are paid to Hope-Geneva Bookstore as reimbursement for wages paid to Sue while she is working on MACS business.

V. Old Business

a. Spring Meeting

Park Place Hotel in Traverse City. NautiCat for the entertainment. Meals haven’t been discussed. MACS will pick up $30 of hotel cost (129/night), making cost $99 for stores.

b. Is there going to be a meeting coordinator? There was a help-wanted ad put in the newsletter and nobody has answered. Pay will be $1000/meeting. The meeting coordinator is Non-voting member of the board.

c. Fall Meeting – October ’03 (first 3 weeks)

Karen Furguson – North Central Michigan College in Petoskey. Port Huron (Thomas Edison Inn) Jeff Harrington from St. Clair Community College. Sherry at Baker College Owosso? Andrew will call Owosso. Andrew is going to see what Indiana is doing for their meeting. Discuss possibility of joining meetings in the future. Registration packets will go out first week of April.

d. Directory

We have a draft copy. In memoriam page, old meeting sites are ideas for new pages. Directory additions/changes sheet to be updated and go out with dues invoices first week of March. New directory slated to go out with spring meeting registration packets first week of April.

e. New membership

Jess asked if Follett/B&N were approached about becoming MACS members.

f. Credit card account is still open. It has been decided to cancel the service.

VI. New Business

a. CAMEX booth. Paul is going to St. Louis and will man the booth to answer questions about the association.

b. Website – Betsy is now the website facilitator.

c. Paul currently has the 1999 version of QuickBooks, he is asking to upgrade to QuickBooks 2003. Cost is about $200. Blake moves. Andrew accepted. All accepted.

d. Paul currently uses an old hand-me-down laptop with Windows 98, the printer won’t print, drivers won’t load. We can probably get one for $1200 with Windows XP. Motion up to $1200 by Blake. Second Andrew. All accepted.

e. Alumni memberships – originally going to charge $10/year, changed to $10 for lifetime membership, Scott thinks we should do away with dues. Motion to eliminate dues by Blake, second by Heidi. All accepted.

f. One time scholarships for schools of the regional steering committee members. A $500 scholarship was proposed by Scott. Blake doesn’t want it, Mike Kuzak doesn’t want it. Dropped.

g. Next meeting date - Friday April 4 at 10 a.m. in Traverse City at hotel.

Adjourned at 2:40.
 

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