Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:09:14 -0800WeeblyFri, 15 Apr 2011 17:53:33 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2011/04/april-board-minutes.html Board Meeting Minutes

April 11, 2011

Attendees: Erica Brooks, Rozanne Hird, Larry Harris, Sara Turley, Jill Waldrop, and Lisa Amato by phone

Meeting was called to order: 6:01 pm by our past president, Erica Brooks

Minutes: Minutes approved.

Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 2822.03 with 2 outstanding checks for a total of $90. Treasurer’s report approved.

Old Business –

1.     Big 12 Update: Softball tournament cancelled. Only Mizzou, Kansas and K State confirmed teams. May 19 the Big 12 board is having a send off party @ Zipps Arcadia for Nebraska and Colorado who are leaving.

New Business

A.   Summer BBQ- May 21 @ Ray’s house. Invite all AZ students, not just our scholarship recipients. Lisa suggested we create a Facebook event for inviting the students. Ask Jayson to send out invitation to the parents of all students. Sara will do this.

B.    Summer event with the Mercury –July 10 vs Tulsa.  40 -$10 tickets reserved at $1 each which is one of the outstanding checks. We will send out invites in June.

1. Scholarship- Sara contacted Connor Montijo and Ashley Goldberg & told them of our decision. They were both excited. She will f/u with Jayson to learn who will take our scholarship.
2. Columns update –Only need 2 things to complete, Rozanne Hird award, which will be presented at the BBQ, and nominate Rozanne for the Pride Award, which Larry is working on (see below).
3. Regional Pride Award – Jerry Castro, St. Vincent de Paul, Jill and Don Prater have submitted letters. All letters were reviewed and decided all to be included with the award submission.

Board comments: Lisa suggested that we recognize Parker at the BBQ, since he is graduating. Maybe give him some type of certificate? Rozanne has received LinkedIn emails from Lyle Peters who is moving here from Washington State and wants to be involved on the board.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:32 pm.

 

Next Board meeting- Monday, May 9, 2011 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016.

Respectfully submitted,

Rozanne Hird, Secretary

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]]>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:04:17 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2011/02/february-board-minutes.html Board Meeting Minutes

February 7, 2011

Attendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Lisa Amato, Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes, Sara Turley, Larry Harris, Chris Clemens, Greg Evans, Eva Gergli, Rozanne Hird, and Jill Waldrop by phone

Meeting was called to order: 6:04 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams

Minutes: Minutes approved.

Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 3017.03 with 2 outstanding checks from football books, approved.

Old Business –

1.     Big 12 Update: Meeting tomorrow night scheduling 2 dates for St. Vinny’s and Dbacks and Phoenix Mercury. Softball tournament will be April 16

New Business

A.    T-Shirts- 6 shirts sold at watch party

B.    Watch parties –

a.     Founders day Feb 15th 6 pm

b.     Candace Garb email on Nebraska watch party – George can’t get Neb game March 1 so no watch party. Shane will email her a list of alternate sites.

c.     Other KU 3/5 @ Columbia- Shane will check with George

C.    Summer event with the Mercury – Roderick and Jill went to Suns game last week compliments of Mercury who want to do an event with us. Jill suggested combining this with Tertulia July 10. She is not sure if they are going back to Mizzou this spring.

1. Scholarship- Sara hasn’t received any info yet. She has responded to 1 potential student. She will follow up with Jayson to find out if he has any applicants and what is the deadline to apply.
2. Recruitment Done for the year
3. Columns update – Larry passed out complete info on our columns status. We will have Tradition done with Founder’s Day, Responsibility, we have 17 new members, Pride- Jill will nominate Rozanne for Pride award and Lisa suggested nominating Erica for Gold. The 10 tickets we donated to the Insight Bowl goes under Responsibility. We still owe MU $513 for the tickets. Larry made a motion that we should use the allocation funds of $333 and take the remaining $178 out of our local funds. Motion passed. Ray will send Jayson a check.
4. New emails – Shane has added several new potential members to his email list. He will forward to the board so we can follow up with them as well.
5. MAA Respect email from Ruth Dunlap- Shane received an email from the Secy of Houston chapter with questions. He will forward to us.
6. Rugby event email from Sean Hopper – Rugby event Feb 12 and 13 in Vegas. He invited us to join him if we were there that weekend.
7. Interest in Tiger Business Network – Erica suggested we should contact Stan Utley @ Greyhawk to see if he wants to be a part of the Tiger Business Network.

Board comments: Larry has a friend in Jacksonville FL connected to Football Fanatics affiliate program. We can order gear and get money back for the chapter, 10% revenue share. Erica said we need to support the university and buy @ the book store and Tiger Team Store. Lisa would want the alumni assoc blessing before we do it. Larry will check with Jayson.

Erica asked Rozanne to send the minutes to the entire board.

Jill – is on the National Kidney Foundation planning committee for their fundraiser walk. She proposed we put together a team to walk @ Chase Field. She asked if US Food could donate bottled water. Shane will check.

Lisa announced the new AASB VP of Traditions is Adrianna

The meeting was adjourned at 7:10 pm.

 

Next Board meeting- Monday, March 14, 2011 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016.

Respectfully submitted,

Rozanne Hird, Secretary

]]>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 16:23:23 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2011/01/january-board-minutes.html Board Meeting Minutes

January 10, 2011

Attendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Lisa Amato, Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes, Jill Waldrop, Sara Turley, Larry Harris, Rozanne Hird

Meeting was called to order: 6:10 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams

Minutes: Minutes approved.

Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 3695.72.  Ray hasn’t paid second semester scholarships and last 2 football books and Shane has a $ 442 deposit from candy and raffle tickets.

Old Business –

A.      Big 12 Update: Meeting tomorrow night

B.      Goals Review:

a.     Membership – We have 4 new members, and we get credit for the 17 signed up during bowl game activities

New Business

A.    Mizzou candy bars- sold out! Shane deposited $ 442.

B.    T-Shirts- We have several boxes of homecoming tshirts which Jayson left with us. We agreed to sell them for $10 each

C.    Watch parties –

a.     1/15th Texas A&M 11 am

b.     1/29 Texas, 7 pm.

D.   Summer event with the Mercury – Amber Cox, COO of the Mercury contacted Erica & wants to have us at a Mercury game.  We decided to do it on Sun July 10 3 pm against Tulsa

1. Insight Bowl –
1. Feedback – Lots of positive from MAA as well as general attendees.
2. Twitter and Facebook- Lots of new followers. Erica did a great job.
2. Frasher’s on TV- Not everyone watched, but those who did reported it was not that great a spot.
3. Scholarship- Shane will notify Jayson that Sara Turley is our new scholarship chair
4. Recruitment Last Wed Parker and Adrianna went to Corona and spoke to 20 students. On the 6th, Adrianna presented to 15 members of the Journalism club. Our other students have not responded to Lisa’s calls.
5. Columns update – Larry said we are on target to complete
6. 2 forms for Jayson – Shane received from Jill and has forwarded to Jayson.
7. Feb meeting – falls on Valentines day. We decided to move to Feb 7. Afte discussion, we decided to hold our Founder’s Day watch party on Sat Feb 12, 11:30, with an alternate date of Tues Feb 15.  Erica suggested we do a highlight reel @ a watch party. We can request sports highlights from watch party attendees, then ask Parker to put together something for us to show at watch parties.
8. Interest in MAA Membership – 2 people completed forms and expressed an interest in joining. Erica will follow up with them.
9. Interest in Tiger Business network – Shane will forward the email request he received to David Roloff (membership at MAA)

Board comments: Erica said we had over 1300 hits to our website during Dec.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:04 pm.

 

Next Board meeting- Monday, Feb 7, 2011 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016.

Respectfully submitted,

Rozanne Hird, Secretary

]]>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:44:39 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2011/01/december-board-minutes.htmlValley of the Sun Chapter

Board Meeting Minutes

December 19, 2010

Attendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Lisa Amato, Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes, Jill Waldrop and Sara Turley by phone

Meeting was called to order: 1:55 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams

Minutes: Minutes approved.

Treasurer’s Report: $400 disbursements for NFL books, $1194 income from raffle tickets. Current balance $ 3920.80

Old Business –

A.      Big 12 Update:

a.     Picnic 11/7 –No final accounting yet

b.     Gave away DBacks tickets at Big 12 Championship game

B.      Goals Review:

a.     Membership – We have 3 new members,

New Business

A.   Allocation funds update – We started with $1092 and have $33.86 after the Golden Graduates event

B.    Scholarship Funding for 2011 – We all agreed it is time to send the second semester $500 each for Parker and Ben

C.   Mizzou candy bars- We have sold > ½ of them, so have paid for our investment

D.   Watch parties –

a.     Bragging Rights formal watch party starts @ 7 pm

b.     After discussion, we decided on 1/8 Colorado, Sat 11:30, decided to invite all of our local Mizzou students, and 1/29 Texas, 7 pm if George can get them.

1. Insight Bowl –
1. Schedule of events

                                               i.     Broadcast from Hyatt Gainey Ranch Sunday 6 pm, lobby bar

                                             ii.     Pep Rally Monday Hyatt Gainey Ranch 5 pm then Marching Mizzou will play at ZooLights @ 8pm.

                                            iii.     Mizzou HQ @ Frashers

                                            iv.     Shuttle from Frashers $25.

                                             v.     Tail Gate Party

1. Watch Party? We decided to put up decorations and do unofficial watch party @ Frashers, since we will all be at the game. Lisa suggested we get name tags with lanyards (will Jayson get for us?). She will also put together tiger “paws” to hand out with all of our local info on them. Erica will put together a list of local attractions and post on the website and forward to Jayson.
1. Scholarship/Recruitment – for the 1/8 watch party ask Jayson for a list of AZ students and we invite them to learn more about our local scholarships. Lisa moved Sara be scholarship chair. Motion passed unanimously.  Lisa will contact current students to go to their schools and recruit during midterm break.
2. Columns update – Larry did not attend this meeting so we have no info.
3. Call for Help - 2 forms Jayson needs to have completed Shane has not gotten done. Jill volunteered to complete them for him.

Board comments: We need to get people to sign up for our Facebook and Twitter feeds at the upcoming watch parties.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:05 pm.

 

Next Board meeting- Monday, Jan 10, 2011 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016.

Respectfully submitted,

Rozanne Hird, Secretary

]]>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:17:26 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2010/11/november-board-minutes.html Attendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Larry Harris, Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes, and Jill Waldrop via phone

Meeting was called to order: 6:15 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams

Minutes: Minutes approved with correction Ault.

Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 3678.61 + $350 Shane deposited from our raffles + $844 Jill deposited from NFL books. Shane has a $96 bill for Golden Grads decorations.

Old Business –

A.      Big 12 Update:

a.     Picnic 11/7 –1st place Texas A&M, 2nd Mizzou, Texas and Iowa State tied for 3rd. Canned food drive will continue until championship game. 45 Mizzou RSVP. Photos have been posted

B.      Dean’s event – Well received. Good attendance.

C.      Watch parties – Past attendance # turned into the alumni association.

D.      Goals Review:

a.     Membership – We have 2 new members, Sarah Turley and Jessica Smithson.

New Business

A.   Football watch parties –

a.     Kansa State- 10 am start time – Shane will check with George and have Jayson send an email for an official watch party.

b.     Iowa State and ku are TBD

1. Golden graduates event –
1. We stuffed the thank you notes from Lisa with Erica’s photos and mailed. We also determined who the early departures were.
2. Columns Update – Nothing to report.
3. Other new business – Charles found Mizzou candy bars at the Russell Stover outlet store for $1.00 each. We unanimously voted to buy all available to sell at watch parties, etc.

Board comments:

The meeting was adjourned at 6:40 pm.

Next Board meeting- Monday, Dec 6, 2010 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016.

 

Respectfully submitted,

Rozanne Hird, Secretary

]]>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 22:09:46 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2010/11/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit1.htmlAttendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Jill Waldrop, Lisa Amato, Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes and Jayson Meyer from Columbia

Meeting was called to order: 6:34 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams

Minutes: Minutes approved as written.

Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 4278.61—Ray has not been reimbursed from our Columbia account.

Old Business –

A.      Big 12 Update:

a.     Picnic 11/7 –Texas rep who started this is moving – US Food is helping with supplies. Instead of the canned food drive @ watch parties we will ask for money to donate to St. Mary’s Food Bank.

B.      Goals Review:

a.     Endowment letter –Per Jayson, we can set up the website to accept donations linked to the alumni association. This way the money will not go into the general fund, but will get to our endowment.

b.     Lisa to ask Jayson for training to represent the association at local college nights – Jill and Jayson had discussed this. We all feel what we are doing is very appropriate. Lisa should send an email to Natalie Ault to get her involved in recruiting like Parker and Adrianna have done.

c.     Membership – We are at 0 so far.

C.      Football books – Only 2 left. Erica bought 1 and we all decided to give the second one to Natalie Alt

New Business

A.   Leaders’ weekend –Sept 17th-19th – Shane, Don and Jill went, Don Prater received Legacy award

B.    Football watch parties –

a.     Unofficial party for CO had 16-18 attendees

b.     Texas A&M  - Official party with announcement

c.     Homecoming – OK- Official party

1. Golden graduates event –
1. 60 attendees. 5 board members and one board guest, Jayson. Total cost for Marie Calendars - $1392. Cost for decorations - $83.48. We think the net cost to the chapter will be ~ $600 after reservation and raffle income and the grant money. We all feel it was a great success. Lisa will send out thank you cards.
2. Jayson Meyer presentation – We were honored to have our board meeting during dinner at Phoenix City Grill and Jayson answered questions and did a presentation about Mizzou.
1. The service packet was sent electronically to Shane.
2. Jill and Shane’s expenses for leaders weekend must be submitted to Jayson for reimbursement.

 

Board comments:

The meeting was adjourned at 8:06 pm.

Next Board meeting- Monday, Nov 8, 2010 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016. 

Respectfully submitted,

Rozanne Hird
Secretary

]]>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:28:45 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2010/09/september-board-meeting-minutes.htmlAttendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Larry Harris, Jill Waldrop, Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes
 
Meeting was called to order: 6:08 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams
 
Minutes: New business item B-Scholarship topic was in error. It should have read 
“Erica moved that we look for a replacement pending a possible out of state move by Donna Lucchesi. Motion carried.”  Minutes approved with this amendment.

Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 3278.61—Ray has not been reimbursed from our Columbia account. Jill has deposited another $1100 from football books.
 
Old Business –
A.    Big 12 Update:
1.    Picnic 11/7 – emailed invitations have gone out. No one has volunteered to help the Texas rep who reserved the park and has done most of the planning with Jill’s input and help.

B.    Website update minutes – Done. Erica will ask Steve if he will do this in the future, since he is our webmaster.

C.    Goals Review:
1.    Endowment letter – add a page to our website w/ Paypal link or send payment directly to Mizzou. Erica will ask Jayson. She has not recd a response yet.

D.    Football books – Only 23 left for Jill and Shane to take back to Columbia
 
New Business
A.    Leaders’ weekend –Sept 17th-19th – Shane, Don and Jill are going, Don Prater to receive Legacy award

B.    Football watch parties – None scheduled at this time

C.    Golden graduates event –
1.    Sunday, Oct 10. 1-4 PM Reservation at Marie Callendars, 4573 E Cactus Rd. Marie Callendars is giving us the 3rd entrée free. Cost for honoree – free; cost for guest of honoree - half price; cost to the chapter - $23.19 per attendee
2.    Registration will take place in Columbia
3.    Food to be served at 1:30
4.    Agenda to include:
  a.    Promote watch parties
  b.    Big XII Picnic
  c.    Mizzou Then and Now
  d.    Table Topics – Erica will put these together
  e.    Presentation of Medallions
  f.    Next year’s ASU/Mizzou game here with tailgate party
  g.    Scholarship Endowment – Shane to follow up with Jayson on current balance and status of matching funds. He will also find out if Jayson needs a screen, laptop and/or projector, and will also ask Jayson to bring an extra medal for Don Prater, who will not be able to attend.

Board comments: We discussed having a watch party for the Colorado game 10/9, the day before our Golden Graduates event. We all agreed that we would encourage people to go to Frasher's for a non-sanctioned, impromptu watch party for that game.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:51 pm.

Next Board meeting- Monday, Oct 11, 2010 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016. Jayson will stay over to do a training session for us during this meeting.

Respectfully submitted,
Rozanne Hird
Secretary
]]>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2010/08/august-minutes.htmlAttendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Larry Harris, Lisa Amato, Don Prater, Jill Waldrop,  Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes
 
Meeting was called to order: 6:10 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams
Minutes: Approved
Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 1598.61—Discussed if Ray had been reimbursed from our Columbia account. We don’t think so yet.
 
Old Business –
A.    Big 12 Update:
1.    Golf – OK came in 1st, Fiesta Bowl 2nd and Neb 3rd – Raised over $600 for AZ Humane Society and over $1800 for Lucky Dog Rescue.
2.    SVdP service – 7/31 @ kitchen 10 participated, 8/8 Henry Unger Dining room 23 participated
3.    DBacks game – 8/21
4.    Picnic 11/7 – no silent auction, self grilled hamburgers and hotdogs instead of catered meal like in past years. Food drive as in past years plus can drive during watch parties.

B.    Goals Review:
1.    Endowment letter – add a page to our website w/ Paypal link or send payment directly to Mizzou. Erica will ask Jayson. She has not recd a response yet.

2.    Student Recruitment activity – Lisa did not do this. Erica likes system currently in place of our current recipients visiting schools. WE all agreed. Larry moved to scratch B as a goal. Passed unanimously.

C.    Football books – Selling well, with few left for Jill to take back to Columbia

New Business
A.    Don Prater to receive Legacy award at Leaders weekend – Yeah! Lisa will try to get Adrianna to tape the presentation

B.    Scholarship Topics – Erica moved that we look for a replacement pending a possible out of state move by Donna Lucchesi. Motion carried.

C.    Football watch parties – Definitely for Ill game 9/4 Shane will contact George

D.    Website update for minutes – Erica will update tonight.

E.    50 year graduates event –Sunday, Oct 10. 1-4 PM Reservation at Marie Callendars, 4573 E Cactus Rd. Marie Callendars is giving us the 3rd entrée free. Jayson is coming, & has presentation and medals. He will stay over Monday to attend our board meeting. Lisa moved all communication be via email the next 2 weeks to be sure invitations go out in a timely manner. Passed. Don will be coming back from an event in Atlanta that afternoon, and won’t be able to make this event unless he gets an earlier flight

F.    Leaders’ weekend –Sept 17th-19th – Shane, Don and Jill are going

Board comments:
Lisa had several suggestions. First create a flier to promote our available scholarships to HS journalism classes. Next become listed on Fast Web, a search engine for scholarships. She will research what it takes to be listed. 3rd, Mid First Bank has a collect change program where they match what non-profits collect. Last, have a team for Walk for the Cure next year.

Erica asked if we should send a blanket email to our members about our scholarship football books and we all said no.

We all discussed email communication slowdown with Jayson and timing of invitations for watch parties.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:06 pm.

Next Board meeting- Monday, Sept 13, 2010 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016

Respectfully submitted,
Rozanne Hird
Secretary]]>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0800http://www.votsmizzou.com/1/post/2010/07/july-board-meeting-minutes.htmlAttendees:  Shane Guilliams, Erica Brooks, Larry Harris, Lisa Amato, Adrianna Amato, Ray Leppien, Rozanne Hird, Amy Grimes
 
Meeting was called to order: 6:06 pm by our president, Shane Guilliams

Minutes: Electronically approved when emailed

Treasurer’s Report: Current balance $ 542.18—will have $ 848 after our expenses are reimbursed from our Columbia account
 
Old Business
A. Student Recognition event – Great picnic, got football books assembled. Note for next year, hold earlier so more students can attend.

B.  Big 12 Update:
1. SVdP service – 7/31 @ kitchen, 8/8 Henry Unger Dining room
2. DBacks game – 8/21
3. Picnic 11/7 – no silent auction, self grilled hamburgers and hotdogs instead of catered meal like in past years.

C. Football books – Starting to sell, send money and book stubs to Jill

New Business
A. Goals Review:
1. Endowment letter – add a page to our website w/ Paypal link or send payment directly to Mizzou. Erica will ask Jayson.
2. Student Recruitment activity – Lisa will check with Jayson for training to be a recruiter for local college night.
3. Membership: Goal is10
4. Contacting High School newspapers – Per Lisa, the schools never called her back –Reinvestigate?
5. Relationship with Kim Covington – Now friends with Jill on Facebook
6. Mizzou magazine ¼ submissions- They don’t take submissions anymore
7. Website redesign - done

B. Scholarship Topics – Limit our scholarships so we can add to endowment? Jill suggested we keep our money to give local scholarships. Ray suggested a second fundraiser like a bowling event

C. Football watch parties – Definitely for Ill game 9/4 Shane will contact George

D. Website update for minutes – How long should we keep the minutes on the website? We all agreed 6 months only.

E. 50 year graduates event –Sunday, Oct 10. 1-4 PM Reservation at Marie Callendars, 4573 E Cactus Rd. Lisa suggested we get 3 entrees, Meatloaf, turkey and grilled chicken. Jayson is coming, & has presentation and medals. We will discuss next years’ ASU game here & tailgate party. Do Tiger Tidbits (table topics to get people talking to each other). Our grant was approved for $500. We are estimating  25-30 guests. Guests will be free, ½ price for guest of alums. Ask Jayson if he will stay over until Monday and give us a board orientation. Lisa will do follow up thank you notes.

F. Adrianna was on Mizzou website

G. Leaders’ weekend –Sept 17th-19th - Shane and Jill are going

Board comments: none

The meeting was adjourned at 7:06 pm.

Next Board meeting- Monday, Aug 9, 2010 Larry’s office 6245 N 24th Parkway , Ste 201, Phoenix, AZ 85016

Respectfully submitted,
Rozanne Hird
Secretary]]>