Executive Board: August 19, 2024
- Attendance: Ross Cowman, Chris Pramas, Beth Damis, Rei Kong, Lyla Ross
- Agenda:
- Check-ins
- Notes Review
- Commitment Review
- Onboarding
- Non-profit Membership
- Switching Over to Discord
- Budget
- Membership Categories
- Commitment Review
- Notes Review
- Approved.
- Commitment Review
- Ross is going to fix the checkout button - done
- Lyla is to research if non-profit membership in the TGA will violate any lobbying laws or guidelines - in progress
- Onboarding
- Flow: Purchase membership > complete survey > membership committee gets folks set up
- Everyone should sign up!
- Switching Over to Discord
- Proposal: We’ll move over to Discord instead of zoom for committee meetings starting next week
- Passed unanimously
- Won’t require other committees to use Discord for meetings if they don’t want to
- Proposal: We’ll move over to Discord instead of zoom for committee meetings starting next week
- Budget
- We now have some dollars since we have opened signups
- Need to purchase insurance for board members
- Ross would like to hire someone for admin work to keep things moving, as well as marketing
- *Need to run future sponsorships of events by the board due to liability
- Current event: Tabletop Industry Game Event monthly at the Mystic
- We should bring in an insurance person to come in and talk to the executive board
- Membership Categories
- Folks that are not part of the industry are part of the Guest access
- Do we want a membership level that is a little more access than Guest, but still non-voting for potential vendors or political groups?
- Important to make a clear delineation between our organization and political offices?
- Membership critera should be clear and consistent
- Roll over this topic to next week
- Commitment Review
- Lyla is to research if non-profit membership in the TGA will violate any lobbying laws or guidelines - in progress
- Everyone should join the TGA!
- Ross to add Beth to backend of website
- Ross to get Beth cc:’d on bank statements
- Chris will research on politicians in trade organizations
- Ross/Chris to solicit opinions on Membership Categories to Membership commitee
- Meeting adjourned 5:41pm
[8.19.24 - rtk]