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| April 28, 2009
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| Meeting called to order 5:31pm
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| ATTENDING:
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| Bill Ritch, Chair
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| David Benedict
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| David Carter
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| Cyd Hoskinson
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| Daniel Kiernan
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| Sketch Macquinor
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| Nancy Skidmore
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| Daniel Taylor
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| Hal Wiedeman
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| ABSENT
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| Ron
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| BOARD MEMBERSHIP
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| Jonathan Strickland has resigned from the board. The next highest vote getter from the
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| last election was Nancy Skidmore, who was voted on to replace Jonathan.
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| CONTRACTS
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| The next step awaits Doug Kaye’s opportunity to assign points.
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| GOALS ASSESSMENT
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| Q1
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| Cassettes are disposed of, even cassettes of products that have not been
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| released on CD.
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| Research specific grants: Bill has done some research
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| Think of and take steps to get out of the mail order distribution business.
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| Make selected live recordings and special studio projects easily available to any
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| radio station that wants them, whether Internet based or over-the-air. (To start
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| in Q1, but ongoing.)
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| Q2
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| Rent studio time as needed. Pangaea is $40 / hour. David B originally budgeted
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| $600 for studio time (15 hours).
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| When David comes back from 3-week vacation, he will be ready to proceed with
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| Johnny Raven. Bill believes time can be made available to rehearse (although
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| prep for Liberty will be proceeding as well).
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| Educational video / how-to book for radio drama – show some progress. Bill
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| suggests that we do not actually HAVE to do this, and let it go.
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| Document essential procedures and define “essential documentation”.
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| Production goals
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| Rory Rammer (Q2) (very close)
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| An Atlanta Christmas (Q2) (could happen)
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| Throne of Shadows (Q2)
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| OVERALL STRATEGY (LIVE SHOWS VS STUDIO RECORDINGS)
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| Received report from Cyd:
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| L A Theater Works does about ten live studio recordings per year. Once a month, they
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| rent a Lecture Hall for an entire week. They rehearse there and perform Wed-Sun. This
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| would give them five recordings of the live show. They have NOTHING written down (re
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| our proposed how-to-do-radio-drama book). They would be very interested in an
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| information-sharing project, perhaps a shared Wiki.
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| Need to attract more audience.
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| David B is working on ads and publicity. We are in need of guidelines by which we can
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| measure success or failure. When we get people in the seats, we need to track them:
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| count them. Pass around a mailing list.
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| Can we direct actor resources or production resources to do five performances in one
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| week every month (like LA Theater Works)? And to assemble this material into a salable
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| show?
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| David B: Whether we do live, or podcasts, or studio, we need to do MORE.
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| Potential contacts with Connecticut School of Broadcasting or ITC: David B has tried to
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| establish ongoing contacts with students, without success so far.
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| CHANGE TO SOP
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| More timely response to e-mail discussion from affected parties.
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| “The board has told DB that they want him to make them feel rushed.”
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| CHANGE TO SOP
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| Membership for the Atlanta Coalition of Performing Arts is a permanent part of our
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| marketing strategy. Unless our business expands tremendously, our dues will remain
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| $150.
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| http://atlantaperforms.com/
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| http://atlantaperforms.biz/
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| We will make this decision at the next meeting.
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| UPCOMING MONEY-CREATING OPPORTUNITIES (summarized by Bill)
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| 1: Charles Hammill Foundation, for “Don’t Forget to Smash the State.”
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| 2: We have applied to Charles Hammill Foundation to adapt several SF novels to audio
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| drama for a total of $170,000
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| 3: Bid for a contract for $35,000 to produce a series of two-minute health spots to run
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| on the radio and their website. ARTC will receive some money, most will go to actors,
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| producers and directors.
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| ARTC LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
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| Daniel Kiernan has asked if we wish to award it this year? Consensus is yes. When?
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| DragonCon.
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| To whom? We have previously decided to ask the previous recipients to vote on new
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| nominees henceforth. Only one of them responded to last year’s solicitation.
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| The engraver no longer has our master. It will cost us about $150 for startup, plus
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| about $50 for one plaque.
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| We need to locate a sample plaque and circulate it to solicit bids.
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| MOTION Sketch/Hal that if we do not have three competitive bids by the next board
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| meeting, that we move with our current plaque vendor. PASSES unanimous less one
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| abstention.
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| NEXT MEETING
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| June 14, 3pm.
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| Daniel Taylor
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| ARTC Corporate Secretary
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