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KCALL Board Meeting Minutes

February 25, 2003

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal

Present were:

Sharon Hom

Tom Marsh

Mike McReynolds

Debbie Steele

Nancy Stancel

Deanna Long

Joan Thomas

Marcia Gonzalez

I. Call to Order - 12:05

II. Approval of Minutes from Previous Meeting - Approved with corrections.

III. Treasurer’s Report - Debbie Steele gave report. Discussion regarding why the membership was down. Report approved.

IV. Old Business

A. SWALL - April - Discussion of upcoming SWALL event & if anyone had an updated list of programs.

B. Any Other Old Business? - It was confirmed that Deanna Long would take over the administration of the list-serv. Marcia Gonzalez would serve as her back-up. Mike McReynolds would meet with both of them to go over procedures. Janet McKinney will continue updating the website, Nancy Stancel will serve as her back-up.

V. New Business

A. Appointment of Committee Chairs & Members - Janet will be Chair of the Technology Committee. Deanna, Nancy and Marcia will make up of the rest of the Technology committee. There was a discussion about how we would proceed with the programs for the Membership meetings without a program committee chair. Sharon had some ideas for programs. Having a social meeting or roundtable in lieu of a program was suggested as well as asking for volunteers to plan individual programs.

B. Possible Candidate for Vice President/ President Elect? - Sharon Hom announced that Debra Showalter-Johnson might be willing to be the Vice President/ President Elect. A discussion followed about whether or not her appointment to a prior year’s Election Committee would fulfill the bylaw requirement that the Vice President/ President Elect have prior service on the Board.

C. Dates for Membership & Board Meetings - The next board meeting will be held April 15th at Sonneschein. General membership meetings were tentatively scheduled as follows:

March 20th - Social meeting at Spencer Fane Britt & Browne

May 15th or 22nd at UMKC

August - Possible social meeting in evening at a bar. (Joan Thomas will research)

October 16th - Shook Hardy & Bacon

December - Holiday Party possibly at Sonnenschein

D. Possible Programs - Sharon suggested we consider purchasing “Soaring to Excellence; Workshop in a Box” for one of our meetings. Nancy said that she would see if she could ILL a copy so we could review before committing. Marcia was asked to send out a message to the membership asking for volunteers to plan an individual program.

E. LEAP - Sharon handed out a copy of a letter she had received from “Lawyers Encouraging Academic Performance”. The letter was seeking a donation or purchase of a table at an event to be held 3/4/2003. It was decided that KCALL would not contribute.

F. Any Other New Business? - Sharon asked if we thought that KCALL funds were adequately allocated or if we should change the budget for the coming year. We agreed allocations would remain the same as previous years. Mike McReynolds will continue to keep an extra key to the KCALL mailbox.

Meeting adjourned @ 1:25