Executive Officers & Board Members Present:

Lisa Delissio, President
Charles Chester - Vice President
Lelia C. Orrell, Secretary
Jim Crisp, Treasurer
Elizabeth Farnsworth - Programs
Mita Bhattachrya - Education
Jean Ngyuen - Career

1. Approved Meeting Minutes for May 23, 2000

2. Introductions

3. Board Members and Officer's Duties discussed

4. E-Publication Report (given by Secretary (Lelia Orrell) on behalf of Editor (Marsha Salett))

• Conservation Perspectives - eJournal is a great success
• Over 700 visitors to the ePublications section since March, 2000
• Webmaster suggested having a "no frames" version of the eJournal
• Suggested that Conservation Perspectives be available in .pdf format as well

5. Secretary's Report (reported by Lelia Orrell)

• Credit Card vs. Check payment web pages
• Recent Deposits
• Advertisements
  • Ads
  • Mass mailing to increase membership
  • Magazine and Journal ads
• 501c3 Approved - What does it all mean?
  • Review period is from Marsh 31, 2000 to December 31, 2004
• Misc Letters Received

6. Financial Report (Presented by Jim Crisp)

• Funds received to date
• Expenses to date
• Checking Account
• Accounting Method

7. Committee Reports

• Executive Board voted to combine the following committees:
  
  • Audit & Legal + Membership + Nominations --> to become Operations Committee
  • Education + Programs --> to become Programs & Education Committee
• Audit and Legal Report
  • Executive Board to ask Louis Hamel of Hale & Dorr to serve as Audit & Legal Committee Chair, or to at least act as legal consultant
• Membership Committee (presented by Lelia Orrell)
  • 382 on email list
• Career Committee (presented by Jean Ngyuen)
  • Career Night scheduled for November, 2000 progressing well
• Conservation, Advocacy and Media Committee (No Representatives present)
  • Executive Board moved that all formal correspondence, hard copy or electronic, be reviewed by the Executive Board prior to release.
• Programs Committee (No representatives present)
  • Began discussion of January and spring meeting ideas
  • Elizabeth Farnsworth was nominated to chair this committee
• Education Committee (Presented by Mita Bhattachrya)
  • Continuing to develop a curriculum for High School and Middle School teachers
  • Committee continues development of outreach/education through visiting area schools
  • Committee will begin work on reviewing other organizations educational groups and curriculums.
• Publications & Editorial Committee (see above)

8. Webmaster's Report

• Usage and Hits (since January 24, 1999)

HOME PAGE 5976 hits

COMMITTEES 625 hits
Education Page 234 hits
Conservation Page 266 hits
Career 175 hits
Programs Page 84 hits
Audit/Legal Page 195 hits
Nomination 109 hits

E-Publications 713 hits (since March, 2000)
Field Experts 453 hits
Membership 433 hits
Web Resources 608 hits
Board Members 212 hits

• Discussion of new features
• Discussion of how to increase visibility

9. New Business

• Brown Bag lunches. Board suggested starting brown bag lunches/meetings. Perhaps 1/month.
• Training Workshops with Union of Concerned Scientists

10. Next Business Meeting to be held February 3, 2001.

Meeting closed at 9:00 pm.