December 14, 2014
Monthly Board Meeting of MoRivCC

The meeting, held in the Stephens Building, began at 1:10 and ended at 2:20 p.m.

Board Members (a quorum was present):  Michael Stacy, Gary Hildebrandt, John Clark, Madeleine Lightfoot, Mike Cooper, and Joy Rushing.

Future Meeting Minutes.  Michael Stacy suggested, and all agreed, that we can review meeting minutes via email and do away with the reading of minutes.  When the Secretary sends out minutes, board members will review immediately.  If board members  wish to make changes or additions, they will “reply to all” by the end of each month.  The Secretary will then make appropriate changes and resend.  At each board meeting, we will simply approve minutes of the previous meeting.

Previous Meeting Minutes.  Madeleine read minutes of the November 9th meeting.  John moved to approve, Mike Cooper seconded, and minutes passed unanimously.

Financial Report.  John recently emailed our current reports.  He has received a continuing exemption letter from the Missouri Department of Revenue.

Sponsorship.  Vicki Russell with The Columbia Tribune has just sent us $500.

Fundraising Committee.  Michael Stacy and Joy Rushing met at length and will serve as our temporary ad hoc committee.  Joy distributed an outline of their proposals and reviewed it with the board.  They will possibly write an application for a small grant in the near future.

Spring Benefit.  New management at The Blue Note has raised prices out of our range.  This venue will now only book local artists who have proven themselves as money-makers at Mojo's.

Michael Stacy intends to move ahead with a spring party at a pavilion near his home.  We will celebrate with a thank you to volunteers.  Attendees will be asked to donate; we will avoid liquor liability by not charging.  Gary will ask Broadway Brewery to donate a keg of beer and Michael will smoke meat.  It was noted that the new owner of The Blue Note, Matt Gerding, should be invited to this event.

Cataloging Committee.  Madeleine, Joy, and Suzanne Cooper have the event record books. Each has made some progress in posting events to the website, but there is more work to do to bring us up to date.  Pippa Letsky is also on the committee.

Winter Recording Sessions.  Most sessions have been scheduled.  Vanessa is contacting Glen Ward for a session.  Michael Stacy will ask guitarist Tom Williams to record a session.   Camera operators are needed; Mike Cooper sent out a request for them on the blog.  Gary said that his work schedule should ease up in January to allow him to help.  He suggested doing trainings on camera operation here at the Stephens Building.

Gary and Mike Cooper then discussed cameras and equipment.  Mike will schedule a time next Tuesday to meet with Patrick at Cafe Berlin, and he'll look at the recording and lighting set-up there.  He will then consider what MoRivCC might need to purchase to achieve good quality recordings.

Future Recording Sessions.  Michael Stacy will contact the Boone County Historical Society about recording musical presentations held there.  He also suggested that Hallsville holds musical events we might record.  Our new sponsor Vicki Russell suggested recording story-tellers.

Office.  Michael Stacy has donated ink for the printer and will clean the printer heads.

Old Business.  Mike Cooper has been in contact with Johnny Fox, who still has the audio from EcoArtFest.  Most of those recordings have not yet been edited.

10th Anniversary Celebration.  This is scheduled on Saturday, January 17th at Cafe Berlin. Michael Cochran and the Catnip Mouse Band will provide the evening's entertainment.   We will provide appetizers and there will be bar specials. 

Per Michael Stacy's email of December 14th, we need to get invitations out quickly to individuals who contributed in the past to the local culture or to MoRivCC and to those we consider to be potential contributors to the organization.  (Matt Gerding should be included in this as well.)  In order to write formal invitations, we will need names and residential addresses, as well as email addresses if possible.  Board members and other volunteers will meet at Cooper's Landing next weekend to address invitations using the guest lists we provide.

Recruitment.  Mike Cooper stressed that we all need to try to recruit volunteers all the time.

Next Meeting.  Scheduled January 11, 2015, at 1:00 p.,m. in the Stephens Building conference room.

12-17-14 ml
1-11-15  board approved