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<p>Minutes for 2010 Annual Meeting for NW-ERA Annual Meeting: June 11, 2009 – Meeting was called to order at 12:15PM Member introductions: 20 Representatives of WOATRA (NW-ERA) were present Guests: Drew Hines, Oregon Department of Education Ray Linley, Retired ODE Presentation: Fundamentals of State Textbook Adoption Drew Hines, Director of Alternative Education VC Advisory Commission (ACT) VP, NASTA Year end Financial Membership has dropped significantly – 2009-10 91 paid members; 2008-09 97 paid members 119 companies; 130 companies<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Cash on Hand (end of June)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> $7,797.97 $9,418.30 Income from Dues<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 11,270.00 13,228.00 Expenses: Administrative Salaries<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9,714.60<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 9,400.00 TOTAL EXPENSES<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 12,890.33 13,228.15 During this year, WOATRA changed our name to Northwest Educational Resources Association (NW-ERA) and we became a legal entity. Next Steps Our goal for this year is to market NW-ERA more effective and to offer more value to our membership. To this end, we will be creating a marketing ad hoc committee with at least 2 board members and 2 general members. Our goal will be to investigate the best ways to get our message out and to look at the following issues: New Logo – our first order of business will be to develop a new logo for our new name Website – We will be issuing a RFI to redesign the website to promote our new image and to be more interactive and allow more content to be placed by our executive director; allow PDF files to be uploaded; Look for possible Ad revenue by allowing education companies to place ads on the website; add links to OSPI, etc. – form partnerships with other state and regional agencies Ability to sign up for membership year round – website to send automatic renewal message Social media – twitter, facebook, etc. give NW-ERA an updated look and feel Conferences – with attendance dwindling and expenses increasing we would like to form a committee to deal with different conferences – 2 board members, 2 general members minimum Minutes for 2010 Annual Meeting for NW-ERA Page 2 Once the UBI # is issued and we receive our new State master business license, we need to: Open new bank account Offer ability to pay online to new and renewing members Elections were held Abi McNaughton was elected President; Karen Tennyson was elected Vice President and Matt Elisara, Abbe Neal, Brady LaMotte, and Shari Martin were elected as members at large Barbara Blair made the motioned, Holly O’Neil seconded - unanimous vote One of the new four at large members will be appointed to the Secretary/treasurer position by a vote of the Board and will have significant changes and added responsibilities of check signing and auditing Thanks to Emory and Jim for service and getting the job done. New Business – Karen Tennyson brought 1098 petitions for people to sign and gave an explanation of the initiative and what it means to education in the State of Washington Barbara Blair asked about the $9K+ salaries and asked that the board look into making changes The meeting was adjourned at 2:30PM</p>
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