Present: Jerry Grymek, Tracy Ford, Dale Dunlop, Guy Thériault , Marc Smith, Paul Knowles, ED Elizabeth Kerr
Regrets: Monica MacNeil, Darcy Rhyno, Jami Savage
Minutes recorded by PK.
Meeting called to order by DD at 12: p.m.
Agenda: Approved
Minutes of June 25: Declared approved
Chapter funding: After discussion, moved by JG, seconded by MS, that the second installment of chapter funding for 2020 be withheld for the balance of 2020, subject to the proviso that any chapter can make a request for funds. Carried.
Chapter Liaison: PK is to communicate this to the chapters, stressing that this is “in keeping with the National Board’s intention to be fiscally responsible in these difficult times.”
ED presented a 2020 revised budget, on behalf of treasurer DR. Moved by DD, seconded by MS, that the revised budget be approved. Carried.
DD noted that he has turned back a portion of his honorarium for 2020.
Conference: After discussion, it was agreed that the consensus is that we cannot plan on a conference in xxx for 2021. This is to be communicated, with regrets, to the xxx representatives.
It was agreed that EK will follow up with other potential sites for 2021.
ED Report: The board has approved that the grace period for memberships is extended to the end of August. EK will compile membership statistics at that time.
EK stressed the need to update media profiles.
PK: Presented the chapter liaison report. Atlantic: Pat Lee and Ayngelina Brogan are the new chapter chairs for the Atlantic chapter; BC & Yukon Chapter will be ‘virtually’ joining the Vancouver Aquarium folks in August, and will resume monthly meetings in September; Ontario will hold its annual meeting August 5.
Awards: TF – noted that the committee will consider the diversity of judges for the award for 2021. At time of meeting, 160 people had viewed the video of the awards presentation.
National PD: MC presented his report:
- National PD has taken July and August off and next scheduled webinars are Sept 8th and Oct 13th. Topics under consideration are an SEO 2.0 webinar and a follow up for the Industry panel session.
- In June I reached out to each Chapter and invited them to host a National PD session in 2021. All agreed and we have already met as a group and created a Webinar form which will be sent to EK for formatting and then this form will be used by all chapters for future webinar requests
- National will host 4 webinars in 2021 with Chapters hosting a further 4. There will be no webinars during Conference month as well as July and August.
- In coordination with Chapter PD representatives we will be delivering a PD survey the week following Labour Day to help set the PD agenda for 2021
- The 2021 calendar has been set and submitted in draft form to the TMAC events calendar. Dates are as follows
- Jan 12th NATIONAL PD
- Feb 9th BC Chapter
- March 9th NATIONAL PD
- April 13th Atlantic Chapter
- May 11th NATIONAL PD
- June CONFERENCE
- Sept 14th Ontario Chapter
- Oct 12th NATIONAL PD
- Nov 9th Prairie Chapter
- Requesting a budget outside of platforms costs of $4000 to cover speaker fees for 2021 Jan – Dec
DD: asked GT to follow up for information on status re. Destination Canada.
Next meeting: Wed. Sept. 30, 12 noon EDT.
DD: Adjournment, 1:03 p.m.