MINUTES

 

2006 FCEA Board Meeting

Wednesday, November 8, 7:30 Hotel Restaurant Ground floor

 

Steve Glassman, president

Keith Hunneycut, vice-president

Rich McKee, treasurer

Jane Jones, webweaver

Dusty Maddox, board member

Deborah Teague, board member

Fred Standley, former CEA liaison

Claudia Slate, general editor

April Van Camp, local arrangements for 2007

 

Not in attendance, William Wall, secretary (detained by automobile accident), Maurice O’Sullivan, CEA Liaison, Patricia Feito, board member.

 

I.  Approval of the Agenda and Introductions –Glassman

 

II.  Approval of the Minutes from the last Board Meeting

 

III.     Treasurer’s Report—McKee

 

            --Rich McKee reported approximately $7419 were on deposit.  Checks totaling approximately $700 were said by the secretary to have been sent to him.  Debts approximating $3000 had accrued owing to the conference.  Net result was a balance similar to that of the previous year.

 

IV.     Local Arrangements for 2007 FCEA—Van Camp (IRCC)

 

            --April Van Camp gave the board a choice of two venues in the Fort Pierce area.  The commercial one entailed $130 a night room charges and steep conference room fees in a hotel on Hutchinson Island.  The room charges for the second were a more modest $89 with all meeting fees defrayed because the venue would be on the IRCC campus.  The board chose the latter sight.  Tentative dates will be Nov. 8 and 9 to coordinate with lack of classes due to Veteran Day observances.

 

V.  Local Arrangements for 2008 FCEA meeting—Teague

 

            --Deborah Teague reported that she had contacted one or more former students teaching at St. John’s Community College who agreed to help locate a conference venue in the Jacksonville area.

 

VI. Nominating Committee Report

 

            --Steve Brahlek gave the following as the slate for 2007 officers:

 

            --VicePresident and program chair, April Van Camp

 

            --Board Member, Carol Policy.

 

            --the board accepted the slate as reported by the committee.

 

NOTE:  The slate was accepted at the business meeting with no nominations from the floor.  Van Camp and Policy are therefore official members of the board.  Claudia Slate is a provisional member pending approval of the ByLaws by the general membership.

 

VI.  Logistics for 2006 Conference--Hunneycutt--

 

            1.  Keith Hunneycutt assigned volunteers to various duties.

 

VII.  Old Business-

 

            --none

 

V.   New Business

             

A.     proposed revision of Bylaws—Glassman

 

Article IV--OFFICERS AND EXECUTIVE BOARD

Section 2, paragraph two amended as follows:

The President, in consultation with the Executive Board, appoints a General Editor of The Proceedings, a Webmaster, and a CEA Liaison  to one-year terms that may be renewed.

Section 3. DUTIES.

•The President presides at meetings, appoints committee members, acts as official spokesperson for FCEA in person and through correspondence, and performs all other tasks requiring executive action.  The President also serves as Executive Editor of The Proceedings and coordinates The Proceedings activities with the annual meeting's Program Chair (the Vice President), insures that an agreement with a publisher has been contracted for (perhaps simply by overseeing that the General Editor has arranged for it), and otherwise insuring that The Proceedings are on track and moving forward.

•The General Editor is responsible for producing The Proceedings in coordination with the President/Executive Editor.  The General Editor appoints an Associate Editor. 

            --these revisions must be submitted to the general membership for approval.

            --discussion ensued of several other areas of possible revision of ByLaws for the following year.  Those areas include a description of  two publications, Florida English and the Proceedings.  The makeup of the Distinguished Colleague Committee was also detailed as possibly being codified in the ByLaws.

      B.  Discussion of  standardizing the selection of the distinguished Colleague?  Hunneycutt--5 minutes

      --it was determined that the Immediate Past President would be the chair of the Distinguished Colleague committee.  One past president would serve on the committee and one current board member would also serve. 

VI.  Adjournment

 

            At 9:30 PM.

 

Respectfully submitted by Steve Glassman, president acting for the secretary.