Board Meeting Minutes
Meeting Date:  December 16, 2008  6:30 pm

Attendees: Bijan Arbab, Angie Deal, Chris Fawcett, Ben Russ, Barry Soalt

(1) Review/Approval of last month minutes (Anita)

            Barry and Bijan to reconcile meeting notes from last time and distribute.

(2) Election of Officers (Cindy)

            Chris has informed us that he will need to step down as of start of the year due to heavy work schedule.  We all appreciate his help and guidance and will miss him.

            Need to fill two new board member positions.  Currently at 5.

            Would like to staff up to 7-13 board members.

(3) Trailblazer Treats (Cindy)

            Ben is now the Muffin-man J

            Will do this once a month on first Wed.

(2) Financial reporting (Angie)

            $200 from Merk was received and deposited.

            Current balance is around $12K

            $5K has been moved to high savings account (2.9%).

            Need to push more of the funds into the Savings account.  Angie will decide and execute.

(3) Online donations (Bijan)

            We are still getting donations on line.  Traffic to the site is down since it is not being referenced on a regular basis in “Cindy emails”.  

            Pengjun Huang $800, 12/12/2008

            Leilani D Wall $200, Nov 19/2008

            Julius K Goh $100, Oct 13 2008

(4) Logo status (Chris)

            Anita will generate the new logo.  Will be good if Chris can send the ones he developed and reviewed to Anita.

(5) Business Networking project (Anita)

            Anita has 4 business signed up and needs help in getting the word out.  Should put the flyer on line and get it mentioned in “Cindy emails” with url references.

            Anita should send a few lines to be published to Cindy by Thr. of every week to be included in “Cindy emails”

(6) Promotion and traffic drive to our web site (Bijan)

            Bijan should send a few lines to Cindy by Thr. of every week to be included in “Cindy emails”.  These will have a link to the SRF web site.

            Agreed that the FNO flyers should be posted on the SRF web site and the Stone Ranch web site should reference the SRF web site.  This way more traffic will be generated which will increase the  $1/day donation level.

            Barry should send a few lines to Cindy to tell folks to make a year end tax deductible donation.

(7) Grant writing activities (Ben)

            Ben is working on this grant with Tamara and will submit to Sony for equipment and staff support.

(8) FNO status (Angie)

            Angie to work with Ben and get a no expiration offer that can be sold.  By law there can not be any expiration and must have cash value below $10 level.

(9) Baseball tickets (Barry)

            Agreed that we should set a weekend date for a baseball game.

            Should look into a school BBQ or get together at the Park-in-Park area

            Would like to have all seats in the same area

            Would like to get the affordable tickets so as not to exclude anyone due to high cost

            Will do a combination of online and actual ticket sales.