The regular meeting of the Board of Directors of Rogue Area Senior Computer Assistance League was held on May 11, 2010 at the Josephine County Fairgrounds Floral Building, Grants Pass, Oregon. The following board members were present: , Vice President Ron Willing, Secretary Velma Gustafson, Treasurer Naomi Carlson , Membership Director Pat Hentges, Members present were: , Laura Dunwald, Jane Frincke, Audrey Williams, and Lannie Harkins.

Secretary's Report: Velma Gustafson reportedVelma Gustafson reported the minutes of the April Board meeting were approved and placed on the RASCAL website.

Treasurer's Report: Naomi Carlson reported, we have $24,363.00 in the bank. She asked about the picnic menu. The members usually vote on 2 different menus. We need to decide how much the club will pay of the amount charged for each members menu. $12.50 for member charge, or $10.00 for member charge.

Membership Director's Report: Patricia Hentges stated, we have 898 individual members and we welcomed 25 new members in April. Still a little down from last year.

Education Director's Report: Lou Garrotto not present.

Communications Director's Report: Murray Johnson not present.

Vice President's Report: Ron Willing stated, we talked with the sound guy and discussed problems. He put together a good solution, and that would be to put everything in a little box so Max would not have to take everything in and out every week. We would have three cables coming out. One going to the speaker, one going to the power cord, and one coming over here to this microphone. He would be replacing our defective hand-held mikes and providing us with two brand new ones. We would end up with basically the same configuration we have now.

The cost would be approximately two thousand dollars. He'll take some of our old stuff in on trade since it is two thousand dollars we have to bring this to the membership. We had four members present so voted okay on this. He will show Max how everything is working and we will have a trial period, so if we continue to get all the crazy feed back, etcetera, we can have adjustments made. It will not take long to do since it is all pretty much off the shelf equipment.
Action: We will bring this up at the meeting next week and go forward as soon as we can.

Mark Simonds went out and bought some soft ware for the data base, that has a bill of $799.00, and we need to get him paid back. We voted to pay Mark.

Ron asked about the entertainment to be held at our Christmas luncheon. It was agreed to have the entertainer in question perform. Naomi said, she listened to his tape and he is very good.

Ron asked for requests for June presentations as he is filling in for Ken Mitchell. Judy is going to do a presentation on Advance Systems Care. He has a beginners session available for June 8th, and June 15th.

Patricia Hentges volunteered to do The Control Panel for beginners on the 15th. Ron suggested to have teachers doing previews of their upcoming classes to fill in part of Judy's presentation. All thought that was a good idea. Laura Dunwald suggested contacting a lawyer that gave a prior presentation about problems seniors go through and the process.
Action: Galen will follow through with Laura on this. We will have a library representative do a presentation in July and work on other presentations for July in June. All agreed that Ken Mitchell has done a fantastic job gathering presentations. It is a lot of work.

Velma suggested we advise the members at a meeting that there will be volunteer board member positions available such as hers next year, and perhaps some of the new members might like to do this. Ask them to consider it.
Action: Galen bring it up at a meeting.

President's Report:

Footprints: No report.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:05 p.m.

Respectfully submitted
Velma Gustafson, Secretary

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