Board Activities
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Minutes Absent John MacFarland, and Sandy Bennett Will Beemer reports: Budget report was distributed, and received. Projects and Courses: Dick Schmidt wants to do an engineering workshop for Professionals at Pingree Park, Colorado. August, this year, Wednesday through Sunday. APPROVED, and into Scantlings, and on the web site. Project at Sechelt is a go, but scope is being negotiated. Troy, Montana is also a go. Both for late August. Registrations forms for both will be in the May/June Scantlings. Lengthy discussion of Budget Report, generally complementary. Our financial house is in good order. Happily, a larger percentage of conference attendees are taking advantage of the early registration discount. Fall conference budgeting will reflect this cultural change. Sandy Bennett joins, delayed by Frank Baker's surgery. Asilomar is essentially filled to capacity. Registrations are over 250 as of this evening. Will is negotiating with a potential TTRAG 2002 site, Mid April, up in Canada, on the Ontario River This has been confirmed for April 12-14, in Upper Canada Village, in Ontario. General discussion of Workshop and Conference programming for the short term future. John MacFarland joins Board members will acquaint themselves with Harrison Stanley at the Asilomar. He is proposing a partnership, or at least some encouragement and publicity from us, promoting his Japanese timberframing and blacksmithing workshops this summer, in Pepperill, MA. Brief report on the NH Preservation Alliance Restoration event, Manchester NH April 21-22. We (Joel and volunteers) are going to cut an 8x12 frame, raffle it off at the end, and split to proceeds. Brief report on the Octagon Project at the NH Farm Museum. No action on either at this time. Joel will re-examie the policy/procedure nature of his work, and report back to the board with a revised proposal for how we move from here. We will take both bigger and smaller bites to move off of this point. This means that Board Members will be asked is a more systematic way to review, modify and approve small bites of policy and procedure for the work-in-progress that is our Policy Manual. Stay tuned. (John Mac, Joel and Chris M will take this forward.) TTRAG Report from John MacFarland, generally very positive. We were quite pleased with the facility, though it was (happily) too small. The programming received high marks, both from the planners and the participants. The Museum provided a high level of service, both in term of amenities, and in historical context. Member Kristen Brennen is writing this up for Timber Framing. The Board feels that this event was a huge success both in program and in terms of strengthening Guild/TTRAG culture. Will departs. Andrea leads the general discussion of next, and final, topic - The Smithsonian Event. The budget is looking very good in terms of direct support for the 6 participants/demonstrators. There is no money at the moment for consultation, and the accommodation of volunteers. Rudy has proposed a mechanism to raise funds for this - via the TFG. Chris moves, and John seconds that we authorize the expenditure of up to $1,750 for materials and transportation thereof to support this event. John moves, Andrea seconds, that the Guild Executive Staff extends fundraising efforts to support this event. That is all for now see you in California! Next Board Call, Wednesday, May 9th, 7:30 PM | |