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  Home > Meeting Minutes > September 25
September 25

Meeting Minutes:
9/25/2005

Although we started without quorum, Dave P. and Dan N. showed up in the nick of time!

Presidential Business:
*Kim, Jim, Brian, Erica Officer reports are due
*Community service Day, sign up soon
*E-comm. meeting next Sunday 3511
*Habitat for humanity is very flexible for service projects possibly as a recurring event

SVP:
*Diabetes walk today was a success (sort of)
*Fall fest, ideas for service projects, fwd them to Brian by the end of the week
*Possible food bank for October 8th
*Community service meeting tomorrow at 34 7:30 pm

MVP:
*Pledge ceremony on Wednesday probably at 8 pm (please come) e-mail updates will follow soon
*Guessing about 6 pledges (open to change)
*Handing out final bids on Monday
*Pledging starts next week!!!

FVP:
*Sunday October 2nd 1 pm prospect park, picnic
*October 4th Napoleon Dynamite movie
*October 5th Dodge Ball tournament
*Need chairs for the movie and the tournament

Treasurer:
*October 1st the check for nationals is going out
*Pay cds or death
* $1776.66 in the fund for hurricane Katrina relief fund
*900.78 gross income for the semester

RecSec:
*...

CorSec:
*Sectionals-
*Nov 4-5 at St Lawrence
*Monopoly theme
*Registration and money are needed by Wed. September 28
*No hotel is around the school, the closest is 11 miles away
*Payments should be done through the cd
*Pledges to Sectionals fund?
*Articles-
*Write some articles!!
*Andrew found the mailbox!

Historian-
*The pictures of events will be uploaded to a website…somewhere

SAA-
*The armory will be finished at some point next week
*An inventory of all supplies will be taken and put up on the site
*For all future events tell Carlos what to reserve ASAP

OM:
*Expired LAF items were taken to the armory
*Paul fixed/organized the office drawer

Old Business:
*Amendment up for vote:
*Discussion:
*Changing the frequency of the chapter newsletter from bi-weekly to monthly
Vote: 17 in favor 0 opposed, motion passes

*Bid to host sectionals next fall
*discussion
*Ben-Should have a bid ready for October 2nd ready for the brotherhood
*Dave P.- Might be better to outline the event
*Ben- In favor as long as he is not alone in his support
*Ben- will get a pre-bid ready for next brotherhood meeting along with Carlos and Paul

New Business:
*LAF system seems to have exploded:
*A cell phone was turned in with an address on it by public safety for us to mail it
*This should not be condoned
*A phone might have been returned to the wrong person:
*A brother added columns to the LAF sheet
*Columns for e-mail address, name and brother present
*Request to remove the columns from the sheet
*discussion:
*Nicole-Why not request the e-mail address when a person claims an item? The e-mail address is taken when when putting an item on LAF?
*Ben-Any other ideas for the sheet format?
*Ben-No point in collecting a signature without collecting a name, not a deterrent
*Ben-No purpose in the current system it is not meant to do anything just to deter any potential theft, do not try and fix it
*Paul-Better descriptions of items and training of brothers would help
*Jim-Add to the system so that a brother can be determine if a person has been contacted
*Kyle-Further discussion at a later date
*Pat-Can fix brother error but not customer error
*Kyle_Form a committee for policy regarding this issue (Ben, Carlos, other interested peoples)

Pledge manual
* Going back to guidelines for pledges
*25 service hours, 6 office hours, 3 LAF runs
*Talk to all actives one associate, one advisor, and one brother from another chapter
*Chair one service and one membership event
*Attend all pledge meetings 2 brotherhood and 2 e-comm meetings
*Discussion
*Question about the number of office hours
*Change to 7 office hours
*Emphasis on room talks on room or brotherhood talks?
*yes
*Motion to Approve
*15 in favor, 0 opposed, 1 abstaining, motion passes
*Arrangement with nationals and Better World Books to get rid of excess dtc books
*Possibility of a book drive
*No restriction on books being given

Concrete Goals of e-comm
*President-Finish charter reaffirmation and risk management October 15th
*SVP-...
*MVP- No depledging this semester, all pledge reports by deadline
*FVP-10 original ideas for fellowship events
*Treasurer-Increase efficiency of treasury program
*RecSec- Tracking down Kevin Woolsey's minutes… and making them fun and exciting!!!
*CorSec- Having the most awesome newsletter ever!
*Historian-Historical fellowship event
*SAA- The armory will be breathable, walk-able, organized
*OM-
*Betterer office manual,
*changing business practices to make them more efficient
*Office inventory

*Motion to adjourn 14 in favor, 2 opposed ,1 abstaining. motion passes

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