Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes: November 13, 2006

I. New board position? Charlotte liason (Ellen nominates Wendy Yang)

- Wendy is going to come to half of our board meetings.-- unanimous

vote for Wendy being the rep

II. National board representatives

- national will pay for plane, aajanc can pay hotel

-2 meetings for advisory board and 3 if on governing board.

III. Founder's fund update

-we are at the $2500 ++

-NBC is giving $500

-need to challenge N&O so that Charlotte can match

-Renee is sending us the email that got so many to donate

-we will have our own bank account by Dec.

-all checks should by cleared by Dec.

-Ellen will make copies of all of the checks

-national will give out receipts.

IV. Events in Charlotte next year

-thinking of a January trip at a restaurant in Charlotte- Wendy will get back to us on this.

-Fall Media Access workshop in Charlotte

VI. UNITY update

-Holiday party- We decided that it would either be a Monday or aThursday-- but will have to discuss with other orgs.

-to charge or not to charge-- pay at the door and no more than $5.

-agree to split food cost with other orgs.

VII. Media Access Workshop-

Peggy & Renee are going to begin discussion about this.

-Peggy will touch base with former participants by dec

-should we partner with NCCBA for the workshop?

Arguments:

Against-there are two different goals-- one is for professional publicists and one for non profits.

For-but we shouldn't cover the entire community including businesses?

** we decided unanimously that MAW is our own event and will not partner.

But-- we are willing to help them with expertise when they do their workshop providing that the workshop satisfy AAJA missions (prefer if it is pan asian).

--agree to push their event off until after April

--also we can ask for a donation to AAJA for expertise.

** we will decide who is going to do what by December

VIII. Next meeting DEC 3rd at 4pm.