Post date: Aug 20, 2014 11:9:5 PM
IBM Tampa Bay Retiree Club
Steering Council Meeting
August 19, 2014 Meeting Minutes
Attendees: Hari Arora, Donna Fryza, Dianne Hartt, Jim Hughes, Mary Ann McCoy, Ron Rosenblatt, Nancy Schramm
Conference call: Susan Gryzbowski, Judy Manowitz
Presiding: Hari Arora
Hari welcomed Nancy Schramm to the Steering Council.
Treasurer Report – Hari
The current account balance is $1880.69. Day at the Races netted $20 with $1430 paid and $1409 cost. Golf event broke even with $1265 paid and $1265 cost.
Mary Ann has assumed the responsibility of Treasurer.
Retiree Database and Membership Registration Report – Mary Ann & Jim
Currently there are 919 active entries in the retiree data base. 140 entries have no email address registered. 14 new members have registered since the last meeting.
With the adds, changes, and corrections since the January mass email, the Vertical Response mass email data base contains 611 valid emails up from 571 with the January mailing.
Website Report - Jim for Harry
Unique visitors: Jan. 242, Feb. 207, Mar. 235, Apr. 163, May 101, Jun., 101, Jul. 148 for an average of 170. This reflects the typical seasonal drop off with and average unique visitors of 460 per month for the previous 5 months.
Seminars Report - Susan and Ron
The target dates for the annual Financial Seminar are October 7 or 8. The presenter will be Eric Longphee from Raymond James back by popular demand from last year
The annual Medical Benefits Seminars will be held in 2 session this year. The first session will focus on returning retirees with more round table discussion. The second session will focus more on education for first time attendees. The target dates are Tuesday, November 11 and Thursday, November 13. The mass email this month will include an overview and the tentative dates for the seminars sessions. A separate mass email will be sent next month with the flyer and registration information. The flyer will note that the seminar presentations will be available on itbrc.org.
Ron will contact the TPD person in charge of Neighborhood Watch to try to arrange for a security seminar targeted for next February or March.
Doug House will no longer be available for the Annual Tax Seminar so a new presenter will have to be arranged to offer the seminar again next March.
Golf Outings Report – Dianne
22 golfers participated in the Spring Outing on Monday, May 5 at Club Renaissance in Sun City. Everyone really enjoyed the venue so the Fall Outing will also be held at Club Renaissance on Monday, October 6.
Day at the Races Report - Judy
65 people attended the event Saturday, April 5 at Tampa Bay Downs which is planned again for next year. Details for 2015 will be addressed in the January Steering Council meeting.
IBM Club – Donna
Group nights are being added to itbrc.org but few retirees are participating.
Entertainment coupon books are available again for $30.
Mailing
A mass mailing is targeted for Friday January 30 to include the President's letter, flyers for the Tax Seminar and Golf Outing, and a save the date notice for the Medical Benefits Seminars. Another mailing is planned for next month to include the flyer and registration information for the Medical Benefits Seminars.
Next Meeting: Tuesday, January 13 from 11 AM to 1 PM at IBM Harborview.