Houston Polymer Clay Guild
Board meeting minutes
Saturday, January 19, 2008

The meeting began at 12:08 p.m. Present were: Bob Wiley – President, Ronalyn Hurley – Treasurer and Membership Coordinator, Paula Kennedy – Secretary and Meg Marchiando – Education Coordinator. Absent were Rebecca Wells-Stout and Carmen Anderson.

Ronalyn gave the treasurer’s report. We currently have $8,899.49 in the bank.

Meg was asked to schedule four “clay days” for this year.

Bob announced that the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (HCCC) will again hold their Empty Bowls auction in May to raise money for the homeless. Anyone wishing to donate a bowl to the auction should drop it off at HCCC.

Bob asked Meg to chair the nominating committee. Merry Maynard and Patricia Daugherty will be asked to be on the committee. Dakotah Flannery has said she is willing to be Education Coordinator. Possible nominees for the At-Large position are new members Mary Alvarez and Nikki Schwartz.

Classes:
Sarajane Helm’s class was cancelled because of too few registrants.
Donna Kato’s class will be April 5&6. Registration will be capped at 20. Jill Kershner has offered her home as a location for the class. If that doesn’t work out, Nikki Schwartz has volunteered to host Donna and Meg will see if Challenger 7 County Park’s meeting room is available.

Future meeting:
February: The demo will be leaf canes. Dakotah will be asked to teach it.
March: The members will be asked for suggestions for upcoming demos. Because the January challenge was moved to the February meeting, the raffle for the Makin’s pasta machine will be postponed until the March meeting. Tickets for the raffle will be $2 each or 3 for $5.

Challenges:
The challenge for April will be “bugs.” Ronalyn asked if she should continue to purchase gift certificates from Polymer Clay Express for the challenge prizes, or rotate through other vendors – Rings & Things, Polka Dots, Munro Crafts, etc.

Rings & Things has asked about the possibility of posting an ad on out website. The board decided that it would be appropriate. It was decided to charge Rings & Things the cost of our website, which is approximately $10 per month. Rings & Things will provide the HTML code for their ad so it can easily be pasted into our website. Rebecca has said that she will continue to maintain the website after her board tem expires.

Paula brought in a flyer for a weekend of classes with Barbara McGuire that is being held by the Baton Rouge Bead Society. Paula was asked to announce the class on the chat group and email the Bator Rouge representative about advertising Donna Kato’s class in return.

The meeting adjourned at 12:45 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,
Paula Kennedy, secretary