Approximate Membership in attendance: 100
Sargent-at-Arms – allowing purple and green dots people in.
Board in attendance: Mary Bellman, Amanda Pacheco, Jason Kozlowski, Debra Kidney, Kate Shaughnessy, Sarah Hughes, Greg DeFreitas, Cheryl Coney, Liz Espinoza, Stephanie Fortado
Absent: Leslie Lopez, David Slavin, Susan Williams, Kai Lai
Parliamentarian – Kathy Renfrew
Secretary Report
- Membership meeting 2018 minutes approved
- All E-Board meeting minutes are posted at www.uale.org for you to view
President’s Report
- Board has been active
- In Fall 2018, Survey was sent to the UALE listserv to get feedback on the future of the annual meeting and programming at UALE
- The need for a webpage and database upgrade
- Need to invest in the digital infrastructure of our organization
- See Meeting PowerPoint.
- Progressive Technology Project – group we want to hire to revamp our database.
- Powerbase – CiviCRM for Organizers
- Washington Labor Center has provided the seed money to launch this. But we need other organizations to throw in some resources (eg: money) to help fund the cost of improving our communications’ systems.
- Recognize Tess Ewing for her volunteer time on the website
Membership Questions:
- What is the overall cost?
- How will this upgrade work in 5 years?
- Will Progressive Technology be around in 5 years?
- Are the cost projections accurate?
- Flat pricing/year not a la carte that includes support and training
- Will this upgrade really meet the needs we want it to do?
Treasurer’s Report
- See budget spreadsheets
- See UALE Treasurer’s Report PDF
Task Force Reports and Discussion
- Women’s Summer School Fundraising Taskforce (Stephanie Fortado)
- Loss of Berger Marks
- Researching potential funders
- Conference Task Force Report (Sarah Laslett)
- Presented report and key questions that the taskforce grappled with:
- How do we alleviate some of the financial pressure presented by the cost of the conference?
- How do we deepen our impact as labor educators?
- Recommendations:
- Moving to a biennial structure – national conference every other year
- Executive Board – extend the term of the current board by 1 year to 2021.
- Embracing and adopting the recommendations of the taskforce on regional activity – “UALE Regional Event Planning Recommendations and Toolkit” (blue sheets)
- Membership Questions:
- No questions
- Presented report and key questions that the taskforce grappled with:
Motions (Kathy)
Motion 1 – 3-19 moved on block
Moved by: Riahl O’Malley, Annetta Ar (second)
Debate Opened: Riahl O’Malley
Amendment – exclude Motion #12 (who made the amendment Simon Fraser
Passed without objection
Motion 2 – Keturah Raabe – Move bloc as amended, Guy Bosworth seconded
Debate opened: Keturah Raabe
Bloc approved as amended – motion is carried
Motion 12 – Sarah Lasett, Seconded Annetta
Debate Opened:
6.1 amendment (Alicia Massey)
Add “or the call of 20 member”
ADD THE FINAL PARTS OF THE MINUTES