Minnesota CPCU Society Chapter

Minnesota CPCU Society Chapter Board Meeting Notes Date September 21st, 2017 at 7:30

Attendance – Voting members: Craig Ehalt, Dana Bolz, Cindy Jordan, Allen Bosch, Chelsea Schaefer, Jason Berger, Matt Andresen, Rick Liddle, and Dave Matlon. Ex-Officio (non-voting members): John DeSanto and Judie Babcock.

Secretary’s Report – Dana  Reviewed August 2017 meeting minutes. Rick motioned to accept and Allen seconded. The board all approved.

Treasurer’s Report – Craig  Reviewed August 2017 financials. We re-invested in CD, to expire again in 2 years. Financials are not fully showing the All I Day expense yet, those should start rolling in within the next month or so. Dana motioned to accept financials and Rick seconded. The board all approved.  Discussion on Cathy getting updated quick books and the board paying for this. Cindy motioned to approve and Allen seconded. The board was all in favor.

Committee Reports:  All I-Day –Allen/Matt o Allen has reached out to printer to get the programs printed out o Donation to the MN Recreation 363 will be in memory of Daryl o Allen will work on getting a plaque to recognize Joe Cranny at All I Day o Board will arrive early to help get everyone checked in

 Monthly Meetings/National Seminars/Chapter Activities – John o Saint game had good attendance – 28 tickets o September meeting was cancelled due to lack of participants o Young agents group would like to do a joint meeting beginning of 2018

 New Designee Committee – Dana o New Designee Social at the Yard House – only one new designee in attendance o Federated New Designee Social has been cancelled as two of the three new designees were unable to attend o Chelsea is going to send an email out to new designees about signing up o Possible new committee member – Brendan from Liberty. Dana will be reaching out to him with more info.

 Membership Committee – Jason o Fun event – trivia night at brewery or wine and canvas were the two top choices. Committee would like to propose doing the wine and canvas event in March or April. Jason will write a budget proposal up for both events and the board can review and decide which event makes the most sense at our next meeting when discussing next year’s budget.  Website/Chapter-gram (Communications) – Chelsea o Discussion on amount of emails sent out for All I Day – would like to send out every other week in October as we lead up to All I Day.

 2017 Operating Plan- Allen o Will know more on where we sit by the planning meeting next month

 Good Works – Rick o All I Day – Collecting clothes for MN Warm o Feed My Starving Children – November

New Business:  Propose Cindy not attend 2018 national convention, instead use money that was reimbursed for this year’s convention for a chapter event and not have Cindy pay back the airline ticket which cannot be reimbursed. Craig motioned to accept this, Allen seconded. The board all approved.  Allen is going to reach out to Evan about putting on the partial completers social next spring and widening out the event to get more attendees. Possibly combine this event with the fun membership event we were planning to have in the spring as well.  The executive committee voted on paying for John DeSanto’s lifetime membership.

Old Business:

Next meeting is our breakfast planning meeting on October 19th at 7:30 am. One Southwest Crossing Building 11095 Viking Drive, Eden Prairie, MN 55344 Location will on the first floor in the large conference room. Visitor parking is located in front of the building.