Silver Spring Camera Club Board Meeting Minutes — January 28, 2021

Seventeen board members attended this Zoom meeting.

Committee Chair Reports:

Secretary: 

Treasurer: Bruce reported we have 67 members vs. 88 last year, 8 of which are new.  Our income is projected to be $2,775 versus $3,745 last year at this time. Our expenses are projected to be $1,452 versus $2,426 last year with the biggest difference being rent paid last year. We are projecting a profit of $990 for the year.

Vice President:  

Other Reports:

Programming:  MPA had a special session for judges. Roy Sewall judged the judges and our judges for March, April and May were disqualified to judge. Roy said he will step as a judge for us to help out.  We will have to find some new judges.

We receive a lot of emails soliciting the club.  We will have a review board to see if they are something we want to have in our CR.  The review board will be Pete Morton, Sherm Edwards and David Powell.  Emails will be forwarded to them. For review.

Cable Release: Close to being finished.

Field Trips:

Website, Meetup, Facebook, Twitter:  

Nominations and Elections Committee:  Asked when they should get started and the sooner the better. 

Competition:  Closer Focus will work on getting topics for the competition and report to the board, to get some ideas outside of the board.

Membership: Will send out a renewal letters targeting to members that have not renewed this year.

Closer Focus: Will work on break-out rooms.

Other Topics:

Payment on website – Dennis is looking for a cheap payment processor.  Michael Koren to assist with what he uses.

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Action Items:

Catherine to contact Dottie’s for the brass plaques

Dennis to finalize the on-line payment option.