February 13, 2012 Executive Committee Meeting

Present at the meeting were: Tiffany Fung (Sgt. at Arms), Samya Boxberger-Oberoi (VPE & VPPR), Nancy Johnson (VPM & Treasurer) and Randy Groover (President).

Officer Reports:

The President reported that 2 DCP goals had been achieved.

The VPE stated that she will work on increasing the visibility for the Competent Leader Program. The President committed to begin work on obtaining his CL designation.

The VPM noted that she was having problems registering members that are new to our club, but are also members of another club (dual members) because she cannot get their member numbers from Toastmasters International in order to process them as a dual member which obviates the need to purchase the initial documentation set again.

The Treasurer announced that all outstanding bills had been paid.

The Sgt. at Arms bought a new box that is slightly larger than needed. She will return it for a smaller box. She also bought dry-erase pens for writing on the white board and has ordered the Table Topics award ribbons.

Agenda Items:

The Sgt. at Arms, VPE and President have been to training. The VPM/Treasurer will attend training if she can.

Due to the indeterminate absence of Wing T. Tsoi, Samya Boxberger-Oberoi has taken over her position as the VPE.

The rebranding effort will start with the VPPR and the President reading the rebranding documentation and reporting to the Executive Committee at the April 9th meeting on what the rebranding requirements are as set forth by Toastmasters International. It will then be up to the full Executive Committee to decide how to move forward.

The VPE will present her ideas on how to proceed with the How to Listen Effectively educational program to the Executive Committee at the March 12th meeting. The members of the Executive Committee have committed to read the workbook for the How to Listen Effectively program by the March 12th meeting. The entire Executive Committee will then decide how to proceed from that point.

The mentoring sessions will be re-established to aid the new members of the club. The sessions will be about 15 minutes long and will consist of presentations from the Successful Club Series, the Better Speaker Series and ad hoc presentations by members of the club pertaining to issues specific to the club.

The next Executive Committe meeting will be held on March 12, 2012.