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Nicole Locker (president)
Katrina Marie (VP of Communications)
Michelle Orloff (VP of Programs)
Melanie Greene (Past President)

NOT in attendance but reports sent ahead of the meeting by:
Jennifer Noseworthy (VP of Workshops)

NOT in attendance but reports sent after meeting by:
Cheryl Barton (Secretary)
Stephanie Derbas (Treasurer)

Minutes of last meeting approval: Michelle moves to approve, Katrina seconds, all in favor.

Report provided by Nicole Locker.

• Spring Mentor Program: low turnout this round.  Only 3 requests for mentor, and we have 3 mentor volunteers.
  • Mariah Ankenman is matching. 
  • Matches will begin in April and commence in June after 8 weeks.
  • Fall Mentor Program will be in September 2022. 
• Begin thinking about board positions for 2023.
  • Who wants to reprise their positions or move to another board position, and which positions do we need to begin recruiting for.
  • Board elections October 16-30, 2022
• Next board meeting: July 9, 2022 (AGM)
  • Pitch event agent/editor interest?
    • Kathy Wheeler no longer able to coordinate due to personal matters.
    • Michelle and Melanie are going to create a one-pager to send to the Stiletto agent/editor contacts to see who can participate in the Pitch event at the summer virtual conference.
    • Melanie found a feature on Hopin that allows scheduled meetings that we may be able to use for our Pitch event at the conference.
• Q4 board meeting: November 13, 2022
• November 13: Q4 Board Meeting
• Other reminders: 
  • November 1: Novel Celebration opens
  • November 1: File 990N (filed by president)

Report provided by Stephanie Derbas.

Audit Committee Review status?

Report provided by Cheryl Barton:

Current member count: 292

New Memberships:February – 19
March – 24
April – 21

Report provided by Michelle Orloff.

•  Stiletto
  • Moved into the judging phase!!
  • Smooth transition so far, no problematic entries reported so far.
  • Condensed number of categories.
  • Entries are down this year from last year. 67 total entries.  (Last year, we remember being in the 80s).
• Virtual Conference
  • Pitch event plans listed in President report. 
  • Full lineup of speakers booked at this time. Event is completely planned out.
  • 3 speakers still need to return the speaker contracts.
  • Hopin upgrade occurred on April 1, 2022.
  • Ready to begin promoting registrations to CRW and outside contacts/social media.
    • Nicky will make a Holler Box graphic for the CRW website. 
    • Katrina will begin posting on CRW social media accounts.
    • Let speakers know they can begin promoting the event as well.
  • Door prizes: some have been donated, we will continue to request more. 
  • Melanie is going to look into putting the Virtual Conference on Eventbrite.
• Western Retreat
  • October 21-23, 2022 with speaker Laurie Schnebly Campbell in San Diego, CA
  • We have enough details now that we can begin taking registrations
  • Tu Quyen sent Nicky a list of questions to go in the registration form.
    • Nicky will create the registration form and put that in the next Member Newsletter.
  • Hilton Garden Inn San Diego Downtown/Bayside booked for the event.
• Eastern Retreat
  • September 16-19, 2022 in Nashville, TN (no speaker)
  • We have the agreement/contract ready to sign from Embassy Suites Airport location in Nashville.
    • Nicky will sign that and fill out the payment info.
  • Conference room over 2 days will cost $955
    • If 12 people attend, that will come out to $79.58 
    • Early bird $79, raise to $99 August 1, 2022
  • Nicky will get the registration form created and also shared in the next Member Newsletter

Report provided by Jennifer Noseworthy.

Profits from workshops

• January – $200
• February – $115
• March (only 3 workshops, not 4) – $235

First-quarter total: $550

Jo Ann Brown/Ferguson – canceled August workshop – family issues. I’ve replaced her with Sarah Allan’s workshop on demystifying the editing process.

Eventbrite – I need our bank information to finish setting up the direct deposit -or- who to forward the Eventbrite email to, so they can update it. We have $40 waiting to be deposited.

Report provided by Katrina Marie.

• Camp Nano
  • Katrina wants to send a poll on Slack or FB to see how many people participate in the Camp Nano events.
• Communications are going out to whoever they go to. 
• Sometimes emails come in on the weekends with people registered for a webinar having an issue. Probably need to direct people who register to Webinars to contact a certain person/email if they have trouble logging on so that they can be responded to timely. 

No committee reports at this time.

• Disaffiliation update: 
  • Still waiting on Secretary of State filing updates. Not much progress there. 
  • Attorney has reviewed bylaws and returned a suggested revision.
    • Finalize and have members vote
    • At some point we’ll need to pay the attorney and ask about next steps
    • Nicky will share to Slack on Google Docs so that everyone can give final comments before we move forward.
• PNC Update: 
  • Melanie was removed and Nicole added in February 2022. 
    • Debit card updated, Nicole has updated payment info on hopefully everything the chapter had recurring payments pulling from the debit card. 

No new business to report at this time.