MINUTES OF THE JULY 2006 MEETING

MINUTES OF THE JULY 2006 MEETING (# 395)
OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE OF THE
INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC MODELLERS SOCIETY
OF CANADA

Item 1.1	Old Business-National Director It's been a quiet month.	Action by: Info
2.1	New Business-National Director Chapter Liaison guy Gary Barling has received all the outstanding CL material..	Info
3.1	RT Editor Absent this evening, but it was noted that RT 30/1 is way overdue. Sid was moving his residence from one place to another, so that's his excuses for this month.	Info
4.1	Treasurer We're doing just fine, thanks for asking..	Info
5.1 5.2	Membership/Circulation Of 116 renewals sent out, we received 87 back, plus seven overdue renewals, and eight new members. John has not found any viable options for reducing the postal costs using Canada Post.	Info Info
6.1	Marketing Absent this evening.	-
7.1	Archivist As there's been no action on the archives front for a long time, other the semi-annual movement of the archives from one basement to another, it was proposed that we drop this portfolio.	Info
8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4	Chapter Liaison (via e-mail) It was noted that Gary has been very active at restoring and maintaining contact with our Chartered Chapters. We now have several new Chartered Chapters operating or in preparation to start up operations. These are located in Hamilton, Ontario - Canadian Warplane Heritage Modellers Waterdown, Ontario - near Hamilton St. Catharines, Ontario may be starting up chapter operations again, and a model club in Tennessee, USA contacted Gary with an eye to starting an IPMS Canada chapter Gary posed a question about the need to send out a new Chapter Charter each year. It was discussed and the feeling was that we could live without sending the documents, but perhaps something like those yearly renewal seals you see on your barber shop license might be a way to go. . Gary proposed that we add more Charter Chapter info into RT. Unfortunately our 'spotty' production schedule makes the publication of date-sensitive material a tricky proposition.	Jamie Jamie Info Info Info
9.1	Webmaster The IPMS Canada webpage notice about the 'Kits for Khandahar' brought several favourable notes of appreciation from the membership. The deHavilland Scale Modellers got all over this project like stink on a monkey and sent a substantial shipment of modelling goodies to the organizer in Halifax.	Info
10.1	Secretary Nothing to report this month.	Info
11.1	Back Issues Back issues sales have been light, but still trickling through.	Info
12.1 12.2 12.3	Special Projects Decals sales were slow since last month. The old issues of RT for the PDF test have not been scanned yet. No word from John on his progress for adding security and copyright protection to protect our media from being copied.	Info Info Info

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