Officers meeting minutes

February 2009

ATTENDING

Bill Ritch, President David Benedict, VP Daniel Taylor, Secretary David Carter, Treasurer Ron Butler Nancy Skidmore Jonathan Strickland Hal Wiedeman

Meeting called to order 2-8-2009, 5:15pm

MINUTES:

VICE PRESIDENT’S REPORT PRODUCTION

Completed a rough draft of “Island of Dr Marceau”. Waiting to work on Christmas music until after March show. Juliana has secured studio time, so can hand-deliver her song to us. No progress on “Country of the Blind”

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Chattacon: went well.
25th Anniversary, March: All things are go. We have a sax player.
SOUNDS OF LIBERTY: Brad Linaweaver will be in L.A. in March. Will meet with executors of Hamill fund. Bill will pitch five novels to be adapted. Requesting budget of $20k each.

TREASURER’S REPORT No report this month

OLD BUSINESS

Google Analytics – no progress
PoS – DB has assembled list of desired data from sales. DT has downloaded software from Intuit that is FREE (intended to work with QuickBooks).
Speaking of sales: Bill has racks he would like to get removed from his storage facility. Nancy will talk to Cyd about that.

BUDGET

Income vs Outgo: Trends were discussed.
DC examining trends in annual income. We should probably assume spending will be down, thus our annual revenue will be lower.
DB believes that we will have genuine New Product this year, which will positively affect our expected revenue.
DICEHEAD: Jeff Baskin encountered the store owners at Chat, who want to carry our product in their stores. Nancy offered them 40% discount nonreturnable (except in case of defective product).
CONNOOGA wants us next Feb 19-21, 2010. They need to know within the next 3-4 months. They will also be at the Chattanooga Choo-Choo hotel.
CHATTACON: They’ll elect their board this month; then we’ll know if we will be invited to reappear in 2010.
DRAGONCON: We will have to begin negotiations sooner than in previous years.

NEXT MEETING: March 8, 5:30pm

Motion to adjourn db/dc passes.

Daniel Taylor, Secretary, ARTC