COSIDA BOARD CALL MINUTES - April 10, 2008
COSIDA BOARD CALL MINUTES - April 10, 2008 President Charles Bloom did a roll call. Kent Cherrington, April Emory and Rod Commons were not on the call.
I. Director of Marketing Ed Carpenter said CoSIDA would be receiving a $160,000 check from ESPN in the near future and he said he would bill ESPN periodically as set forth in the contract.
II. Carpenter said there were 133 entries in the CoSIDA logo contest. He said Director of On-line Services Jamie Joss would scan the logos and the board members will be able to view them on a password protected site.
III. Carpenter said he had only received three responses back from board members offering to make contacts with people and organizations listed on the tracking sheet. He asked the board members to look back over the list and get back to him by Friday.
IV. Carpenter said one annual workshop sponsor will not be able to be a sponsor at the 2008 Workshop.
V. Carpenter said he had been contacted by two other companies who were still showing interest in a sponsorship.
VI. There was discussion of a proposal for a partnership with CoSIDA and a golf tournament. After lengthy discussion, the board voted unanimously to withdraw completely from that proposed partnership.
VII. Executive Director John Humenik discussed trying to find additional sponsors for workshop events in Tampa. He also gave an update on several items and said IMG was working on CoSIDA’s behalf to attract more exhibitors. He said he had also talked to two other companies about possible sponsorships.
VIII. Third Vice President Larry Dougherty said the Special Awards process had gone well and he thanked Joss for his assistance in helping take the voting process on-line. He reviewed the list of honorees and said he would notify the nominators to contact the honorees and let them know they had been selected. Bloom thanked Dougherty for his work with the awards program.
IX. First Vice President Nick Joos reviewed the workshop program. He said there were still some holes to fill on a few panels but felt they would be nailed down shortly.
X. Second Vice President Justin Doherty reviewed the workshop social calendar. He said they were still looking for a softball field and said he would look for a new golf course for that event. He also asked the board members to look back at the sponsor grid and assist anywhere that they could.
XI. Secretary Jeff Hodges reviewed two proposed Constitutional Amendments that he said would run in the May Digest. One would prohibit a college representative or at-large representative who has served a full three- year term on the board to be renominated for a college or at-large position. The other would increase the annual number of CoSIDA Hall of Fame inductees from three to five.
XII. Bloom asked Humenik about the implementation of his Startegic Plan. After discussion, Bloom said he would look at the calendar and set up some conference calls.
XIII. Joss said a sponsor had asked for an electronic copy of the CoSIDA mailing list. The board said it would have to discuss it further, since other sponsors had not been provided an electronic list in the past.
XIV. Bloom said only a small number of nominations had been received for the three upcoming vacant board positions. He encouraged board members to nominate deserving candidates prior to the workshop.
XV. Humenik asked board members to respond to some previous requests that he had made for words to describe CoSIDA in a branding campaign.
XVI. Bloom reminded the officers that the next call would be on Tuesday, April 22.
The call was adjourned.