Jacksonville Camera Club Board Meeting Minutes – November 22, 2021 – Young McQueen’s Home -7:00 p.m.

JCC Executive Board   Invited Guests
Absent Name Position   Absent Name Position
P Young McQueen President x Kathy Jaworski  
P Jeff Garbow Vice President      
A Brian Leonard Treasurer      
A Gail Means Secretary      
P Paula Eswothy Director R      
P Craig Shier Director S      
A Anita Fanic Director T      

 

These minutes are being placed on the web site and if at some future date the minutes are supplied to either current Secretary or the incoming secretary of 2022 at that time they should be updated to reflect what happened at this meeting.

Order

Opening

Secretary Report (Minutes— of the previous board meeting was provided to the Board)

Treasurer’s Report

Audit 2020

OLD BUSINESS (w/Motions)

 

Motion:

Bylaws Change: Revision of Points System and Lifetime Member Program

MOTION:

Young McQueen move that

The following section of the bylaws be removed and placed in the website under the section “Bylaws Plus”. The details therein be henceforth under the approval of the Club’s Executive Board.

Article VII (Honors Program . . . )

Section (D)  Point System, Section (E) and Section (F).

Note: There is no Section C in this Article.

MOTION:

Young McQueen move that

ARTICLE I – Membership be modified to read:

Any real person may join the Club. Membership is subject to review and approval by the Executive Board and the payment of dues.

Membership levels are as follows:

 

Description Pays Dues Special Qualifications Votes & Incl in quorum requirement Contests Participation Comments Access to Website
Member Full None Yes Yes   Yes
Family Half or as specified by Exec. Board Shares household with a member Yes Yes Limited to one per Member Yes
Fellow Full Points as per website Yes Yes Subject to approval of Exec Board Yes
Lifetime No Points as per website Yes Yes No new prospects after 1/1/2022, no new awards after 1/1/2032. Yes
 Lifetime-Inactive No Choice or if becomes non-responsive No No Become active upon request to Exec. B. No
Honorary or Non-Voting TBS   Designated by Executive Board No No Subject to annual review

 

Yes

And

Comments on Lifetime Membership: This membership type is being sunsetted, that is, deleted at a future date. All present Lifetime members (paying no dues) are to continue without change as long as they are members of the club. Other members as of 1/1/2022 may become lifetime members in accordance with the details on the website. They must opt into that track during 2022. Those choosing to not opt into the lifetime member track and new members (joining after 1/1/2022) may obtain a Fellowship membership with dues iaw details on the website. Lifetime members may choose to revert to Fellowship membership and pay dues at any time.

 

ARTICLE II – Finance be modified to read:

The Club operates on a calendar year, cash basis. Expenses are paid with the approval of the Executive Board directly or through a budget process. Club dues are set by the Executive Board.

 

 

NEW BUSINESS (w/Motions)

Motion:  Donations In-Kind Procedures

Young McQueen

Move that the following procedures be adopted to handle in-kind donations to the Club in the order below. The Club will endeavor to obtain the highest price possible considering the efficiency of the process.

  • Items usable by the Club be added to its assets.
  • Items of possible uses by members of the Club be sold to the members via a Dutch auction on the JCC website.
  • Items be sold to non-members
  • Items be sold to a specialty reseller such as KEH.
  • Items be donated to the members via a fair chance by all process or lottery
  • Items be donated to a charity or disposed All funds received will be earmarked for the Club’s Education Fund. Administrators of the Dutch auction may not bid personally until 10 days after an announced price decreases.

  OLD BUSINESS (w/o Motions)

Link to Board Motions Results: https://airtable.com/shrT1eTx54jtsOgsz

Moving to SOTW Southside: move stuff 11/29 first meet 12/2, Thursday

Review Budget:

Christmas Party location: Need Leader, 17th

Awards Banquet 2022:

NEW BUSINESS (w/o Motions)

Photo Shoot SOTW Lakeshore, Dec 5, 2-4 PM

Program Committee Chair/Contest Chairs: Schedule through 2021 discuss

Review of year: Notes, Comments to be memorialized.

Pandemic

Programs — Do members care about Education

Outings — Good and Not so Good

Contest? Quality of Judging ? Critiques? Improvements?

Attendance/Participation? More reminders

Any transparency issues?

New Member Participation? More social contact to build the relationship to club?

Are we thanking the Judges/Presenters?

Summers with one meeting/month? Jun Jul Aug ?

Others?

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