Executive Committee Minutes, November 13, 2018

Discussion on the post-conference evaluation: Sarah wants us to carefully evaluate whether the annual conference is the best use of our team. In essence, the question is whether there enough Return on Value relative to other alternatives. Janice pointed out that we spent an awful lot of board meeting time on the conference. We need to make sure we’re focused on what our priorities are and what we want to deliver to members, not overly focused on the annual conference at the expense of other functions. Danny counters that the annual conference brings people together and helps raise funds. Definitely thinks we should have a conference. Sue wants board input on whether we should we share the survey results, given that there were a lot of questions about the manifesto and don’t yet have answers to we will have more information on the outcome and what we plan to do with the data. Note, Sarah is meeting on Friday with Justin Kunkel, who led the session. He has digitized the paper input and they’ll discuss. Sarah will update us and come up with a plan. Exec Committee agreed that we should reconvene the event committee to review the evaluations & takeaways.  Joe recommended we have an open-ended debrief: discuss what went right; what went wrong. Danny emphasized that we need to decide soon what & when we plan to do next year so that we can start planning for sponsorships (and venues, etc.). Sue & Danny raised the possibility of co-locating with another event that h...
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