EC Meeting Agenda Items

Can we not utilize software like Quicken that is more user friendly than plain spreadsheets? The spreadsheets only give bottom line, with no tracking of how the money was allocated. This could help us more accurately produce a budget and make adjustments easier.

States are responsible for welcome night and a few other things. They have to raise money to cover the cost of those events and we need to lay out some ground rules on how to do that so Eangus and the states are not hurting each other in the process (taking an Eangus exhibitor and making them a state corporate member for welcome night, etc.)

Also need to discuss national conference websites that are done outside of the national association so that we are not confusing corporate partners on how to sign up for what.

Consider having a Combined workshop with NGAUS this year they have a full staff that we could probably work with and probably save $$$$ possibly hold it at The National Guard Building

We need to develop and approve an investment portfolio statement. We should have done one when we established the restricted reserve. This will give us guidance on what and how we manage our funds to include operating fund, RR and cash flow. Need to have Board approve the risk threshold and the amount of money to allocate into the new restricted reserve investment account.

www.expensify.com is easy to use, and FREE. Perhaps we don't need to change from the paper form we are using now, but I would like to discuss it.

Founders and Pioneers: We continue to lose those who have been identified as Founders and Pioneers. Should we dedicate funding to have certificates created and mailed to the members or their families letting them know that they have been identified?

Conference posters, Advertisers, Corporate Advisory Committee. Other tasks that should be assigned to Ways and Means?

Need $20,000 for new State flags.

The attached poster is hopefully going to be put in every Armory in California.

Investment Planning guide was submitted to the FC and EC during the APR WEBEX for approval but discussion was tabled.

Would like to know who (States) are interested in getting copies of Almanac for distribution. I have several companies I am dealing with to get prices on reproducing at a lower cost then $5.00 each, but would like to get an idea of how many copies I will be needing.
Thank You.
Andrew Strauss
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