Board Activities

Timeslices:
Will reports on how the Timeslices program works to keep track of time. Will and Joel will report monthly, total hours worked per week and summaries of hours worked per category. W and J will continue to refine what the category headings will be (probably based on job description categories).

Will’s general report:
Spending lots of time with correspondence, setting up new office (taxes, credit card machine, etc.). Will feels that we will need some data entry help once the B’ham office closes (May 1). Michele is willing to pick up some of this work (memberships, credit card processing, registrations, directory). Since all information is kept electronically, it can also be farmed out to others. We will be getting a TFG credit card.

Joel’s general report:
Has some concerns about maintaining office from on the road. Voice mail and remote access (email) will help. Joel plans to take off some time after Western conf.

Rudy: Do you have the right equipment? Cell phone? Other hardware? Joel feels good for now with what he’s got.

Year in review:
Andrea suggests laying out calendar for whole year with pertinent deadlines for ED/director projects. Joel and Will will work on this.

Workshop review:
The Canterbury Workshop (Kyle Whitehead) will not be run by the Guild. The board/ED’s looked carefully at the workshop parameters (especially budget) and determined that the project wouldn’t work as proposed, and made some counterproposals. The host organization was not able to work with the Guild’s proposal, so he will be running the project independently. The Shaker Village is still interested in working with the Guild on a larger future project.

Scholarships:
$1,200 in the fund currently. We need an application form and criteria. Proposals will go to the board for comment, ultimate decision is by ED’s. Will suggests a $300 cap. Tim will work on this with Will.

New Member Calls:
Joel will put together the names and distribute to directors monthly, starting April 1.

Texas 2000:
Tim has proposal (airport terminal, Gilmer TX) for workshop and partnership with Red Suspenders. Joel will make site visit in April.

Log Home and Timber Frame Expo:
We are offered a free booth at any of four of these shows. Rudy thinks we made net $$ at the last one he went to, and sold lots of stuff and memberships. The TFG booth was very well received last year, and they missed us this year in Ohio. Put up and took down a small frame. Andrea suggests partnering with a local company for support and to cut a small frame. Next one is in Indianapolis, and Joel proposes we contact Timbersmith to see if they want to cut a frame for the booth.

TTRAG:
Rudy proposes bringing all outstanding TTRAG monies into the TFG general accounting and proposes establishing a TTRAG discretionary fund within the TFG budget. This would be used specifically for projects of interest to TTRAG.

Next Call: Wednesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m. Eastern time

Call ends 9:30 p.m.