CoSIDA Officers Conference Call

COSIDA BOARD OFFICERS CALL
October 27, 2005

I. President Joe Hernandez (Ball State) did a roll
call. Third Vice President John Bianco (Texas) was
not on the call.
II. Treasurer Dave Wohlhueter (Ithaca, N.Y.) said
the CoSIDA Hurricane Relief effort totalled
$51,770.00. At-Large Representative Judy Willson
(Louisiana-Monroe) joined the call. Willson said she
had been in contact with 29 SIDs who had suffered
losses due to the storms. Those 29 had received gift
cards from CoSIDA in the immediate aftermath of the
storms and she said she was attempting to determine
the level of additional need. She said the largest
request she had received was for $5,000. It was the
decision of the board that a sliding scale be put in
place to give $5,000 to the most needy, and work
down from there with the money available. Willson
said she would complete contacting the SIDs affected
and would report back to the board. It was
emphasized that CoSIDA wanted to get the money in
people's hands as soon as possible.
III. There was discussion of a letter to the Board
from Bernadette Cafarelli (Notre Dame) regarding the
Academic All-America program, and Hernandez written
response to her letter.
IV. There was discussion of a request for CoSIDA to
purchase advertising in a publication by a coaches
association. It was felt that CoSIDA should not
purchase the ad, since there was no way CoSIDA could
do similar advertising or sponsorship with the
numerous other coaches associations. Hernandez said
he would respond to the request and report back to
the board.
V. First Vice President Doug Dull (Maryland) said he
would be going to Nashville to meet with the local
organizing committee for the 2006 Workshop.  
VI. Second Vice President Charles Bloom
(Southeastern Conference) said he had a conference
call with the Social Committee. He said it was a
productive call. The committee divided
responsibilities and Bloom said he felt good about
the committee's ideas and direction for the
Nashville Workshop.
VII.Wohlhueter asked Marketing Director Ed Carpenter
(Boston, Mass.) about potential ad sales for the
CoSIDA Directory. Carpenter said he had not devoted
a lot of attention to it but would look at it.
Wohlhueter felt it could be a great source of
revenue for CoSIDA.
VIII. Carpenter said he had been in touch with Jeff
Rubin at ICS and they were working out details of
their contract with CoSIDA. He said it was taking a
while because they wanted to be sure Jeff included
everything that ICS is doing for CoSIDA in the
contract.
IX. Secretary Jeff Hodges (North Alabama) said
CoSIDA membership was ahead of where it normally was
at this time of year. He said more than 1,900
members had been registered in the on-line system.He
said the 2005-06 Directory had been mailed to all
state distributors and members. He said he had
received the updated CoSIDA letterhead and had
mailed some to each board member. He asked for any
items for the December Digest be to him by November 1.
X. Hernandez said the next call would be a full
board call on Nov. 10, but there would be no call on
Nov. 24 due to Thanksgiving.
There was no old or new business and the call was
adjourned.