CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF LEGAL DOCUMENT ASSISTANTS

 

Minutes of Board Meeting

 

Hyatt Regency Hotel

Sacramento, CA 

Thursday, September 13, 2007

4:35 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.

 

Officers Present:

X Carol Ludlow, President

X Marcel Neumann, Vice President

X Annette Gomez, Secretary

 

Directors Present:

X Tina Sandoval, Education Chair

X Nancy Newlin, Newsletter

X Debbie Driver, Fundraising

X Carl Knoll, Technology

X Connie Crockett, Legislation

X Vanessa Watson, Public Relations

X Robin Schumacher, Membership

 

Others Present:

Betty Cleveland

Jerry Cleveland

Debra Jones

Liz Fleisher

Andrea McGee

Donald McGee

Dave Driver

 

Call to order:

The meeting convened at 4:35 p.m., President Carol Ludlow presiding.

 

Approval of minutes:

The board reviewed the minutes of the July 2007 board meeting in Sacramento. Carl moved that the minutes of July 2007 be approved. Nancy seconded the motion. All were in favor and the minutes of the July 2007 board meeting were approved as written.

 

Approval of the Budgets: 

The treasurer’s report will be reviewed at the 2007 Annual General Meeting to be held on September 15, 2007.

 

 

 

Chris Donica’s Contract

Chris Donica of Evalesco Co. has been CALDA’s webmaster for several years without any raise in pay. He submitted a new contract for services to be continued at the rate of $50 per hour. Debbie moved that we approve his new contract. Carl seconded the motion. All were in favor. The motion was carried.

 

Policies for CALDA’s Forums

The board reviewed CALDA’s policies on the use of our Forums, which were printed and handed out to each board member.

 

HitNet

The floor was turned over to Carl, who updated us on the issue of our contract with Hitnet, the company hired to develop our new website. Since July 2007 there has been no contact with Hitnet. Repeated phone messages have gone unanswered. Discussion was held and the majority of the board concurred that a letter needs to go out immediately.  This will be followed by a letter from our attorney, Richard Lubetsky, if there is no response from Hitnet within 5 days.

 

This led into a discussion concerning the fact that not all the members are getting the forum posts. Some members are getting a note in their mailbox that there are no forum posts that day, others get nothing for long periods of time, while others are getting no posts or messages.   (Note:  this was later fixed on September 24^th by Chris Donica)

 

Conference

The last item of business was last minute conference details. Each board member was assigned classes to announce with instructions on collecting evaluation forms and distributing MCLE credits.

 

After a dinner break the board members and others present formed an assembly line and helped to put the conference binders together and fill the conference bags.   

 

Meeting adjourned at 10:00 p.m.

 

Submitted by Annette Gomez

 

TO DO:

Letter to be sent to Hitnet