MINUTES OF THE DECEMBER 2006 MEETING (# 397)
OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC MODELLERS SOCIETY
OF CANADA

MEMBERS

Jamie Leggo
Sid Arnold
Gary Barling

John MacDonald
Steve
Sauvé
Randy Lutz
Bob Migliardi
Robin Purgina

POSITION

National Director
Random Thoughts Editor
Chapter Liaison 
Treasurer
Secretary / Webmaster
Back Issues/Special Products Distribution
Graphic Artist / Advisor
Marketing

ATTENDANCE

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The meeting was called to order at 2000 hrs, 12 December 2006, at the home of Jamie Leggo.

Item

1.1

Old Business-National Director

Jamie noted that this was our first formal Exec meeting since August. The ship steers itself pretty well, apparently.

Action by:

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2.1



2.2

New Business-National Director

It's been a pretty quiet period.  No nut mail has come in and members' issues we've heard about have been addressed in a timely fashion.

We received a letter from Gary Bowman of DeHavilland Scale Modellers.  We are donating a one year membership to IPMS Canada for Christmas raffle.



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John MacDonald



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3.2



3.3


3.4


3.5

RT Editor

RT 30/2 will be a DeHavilland Scale Modellers chapter special.  

RT 30/3 will have a variety of material in it, including some work from our new friends in Tennessee.

Sid promises that he has some exciting armour stuff in development for future issues.

Jamie was jammed into a corner to produce a photo shooting article for RT and the webpage.

The print run for RT needs to be adjusted downwards.  John will be providing up to date print run numbers to Sid as we go to production.



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Sid Arnold


Jamie Leggo



John MacDonald
Sid Arnold



4.1

Treasurer

No news since last meeting.



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5.1



5.2

Membership/Circulation

Out of 86 renewals sent out with the last issue of RT we got 65 back, and 6 new members.  A net loss of 15 members.


An active PayPal account and an online method for renewal may help us to reduce these membership losses.  Jamie will redouble his efforts to get this set up, and Steve will incorporate the material on the web page.



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Jamie Leggo
Steve Sauvé



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6.2


6.3




6.4

Marketing

Robin's work
and heavy travel schedule means he has to drop at least part of his portfolio.

Regardless of outside pressures, Robin will be getting some RTs and decals from Randy to send out a marketing letter for the organization.

Robin will look at scouring other national and international IPMS resources to find material suitable for re-publication in RT.  Of course this cooperative venture would be a two-way exchange, and we would be offering RT articles for re-publication in other IPMS publications.

The extremely high postage cost of servicing a international (i.e., not USA) foreign membership can no longer be subsidized by IPMS Canada.  John will be running hard figures for international memberships and the price will be raised to cover this.
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Robin Purgina
Randy Lutz

Robin Purgina




John MacDonald
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7.1

Chapter Liaison

Absent with a suitable excuse.  Gary did take the time to call in his report and declared that all was good in his AO.



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8.2


8.3

Webmaster

The Webmaster was tactfully reminded that we were late in putting up some new photos of Vic Scheuerman's Mustang III, done with the new decals. 


Steve needs to contact our current ISP to update the billing information, if needed (see next discussion point).

In a related development, we are looking at changing our ISP to get a better bang for our IPMS Canada web bucks.  Improvements will include host server space to allow for a proper "discussion forum" area (much like IPMS/USA's set-up) vice the Yahoo group we currently have available for members



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Steve Sauvé


Steve Sauvé



9.1 

Secretary

Nothing to report this month.



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10.1 

Back Issues

Ten back issues have been sold since the last meeting.



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11.1

Special Projects

Three decal sheets have been sold since the last meeting.



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The meeting ended at 2115 hrs.  The next meeting will be held at a date TBA at the home of Jamie Leggo.

Steve Sauvé
Secretary
IPMS Canada
01 January 2007

 

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