michael h schneider
10-03-2001, 08:58 AM
Here is NAWCC President Doug Cowan's Interim NAWCC Activity Status Report. He can be reached by email at:
dcclock@juno.com
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Dear Chapters volunteers and members:
This is a very brief summary of actions underway since new Council took over in July. Please respond to me at the above email address if you wish expansion on any topic.
Completed actions:
1. Telephone calls to lapsed members began last week- to encourage
rejoining and to find out reasons for leaving.
2. NAWCC_NEWS is up and running, but not enough posts yet. The habit needs to be learned.
3. Chapter visit invitations have gone out, with several responses, and several visits already scheduled.
4. Spending is being tightly controlled well below budget, unfortunately, membership and museum receipts are also below budget. More revenue is needed.
5. Council enacted that future budgets must be tied closely to membership levels to prevent further dues inflation.
6. No capital budget was approved, so any spending such as the chiller noise reduction project has to be approved by Council on an individual basis. Few projects will make it through that screen.
7. Grants in excess of $25,000 total have been obtained by Dr. Connelly our executive director, from various gov. and charitable agencies, for various purposes. Our annual goal for that will be $50,000.
8. Letter to the membership defining NAWCC and Regional tax free status has been obtained from legal counsel. This will be posted to this service next week.
9. The Idea Bank has been initiated to keep good ideas from getting lost.
10. The Museum accreditation self study has been completed and forwarded to the accreditation agency.
11. Dues for new members have been raised to $60 effective October 1. US resident members dues will be $50 commencing Jan. 1 2002. The Council approved increase in dues for renewal by lapsed members has not yet been instituted because of difficulties in getting this done at regionals, etc. This topic will be revisited at Jan. 2002 Council. Non US resident dues do not increase at this time.
12. The School of Horology, under Director Dan Nied, is revitalized, and growing again. Good management practices to handle school equipment, course notes and student recruiting are underway.
13. The Strategy and Governance Advisory Group was appointed under the chairmanship of Bill Lazarus (wcl@abq.com)
14. The new Web and Technology Committee is established and planning to rejuvenate the eMart as a first priority.
Work in Progress:
1. The Museum Trustees with support from Council, Chapters and many members will begin in October a campaign to ask members to endow the Museum and Library by immediate gifts or legacy plans.
2. Museum Trustees will review and revise as necessary the wording of the two main Endowment Funds-- one which allows some Trustee discretion as to how funds are allocated, and the other which does not allow this.
3. The Bylaws and Procedures Committee promises completion of a procedures manual (currently incomplete) and Bylaws proposals as needed, especially concerning the School of Horology, before the next Council meeting.
4. Membership and Publicity committee has several initiatives underway, not least of which is the members satisfaction surveys.
5. October Mart includes a questionnaire about how members want their membership information handled and or shared. Please respond. Council is trying to bring these questions to you before making policy.
6. Exec. Director Nancy Connelly is spending a lot of her time in fund raising outside of the NAWCC member community-- and expects to be successful. This is new to our Association.
7. The chiller sound reducers are currently being installed. Then will be tested to make sure they meet the reduction need.
Miscellaneous.
1. Our Museum acting curator Michelle Nichols has left to wed and move to Rhode Island. She did a very good job, especially since she was newly out of University little over a year ago. Hope to have candidate to replace her identified and hired soon.
2. Beth Bisbano, the Museum Committee and Trustees have acquired the paperwork collection of General Time Corp. using funds from Library endowment interest. This includes virtually all known Seth Thomas catalogs plus much more. Thanks to Trustees and volunteer Ward Francillon for helping speed this along. Little time was available.to make the decisions. Cost was $4400
I've almost certainly left something out . If so, will post again .
Sincerely,
Doug Cowan, Pres.
dcclock@juno.com
dcclock@juno.com
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Dear Chapters volunteers and members:
This is a very brief summary of actions underway since new Council took over in July. Please respond to me at the above email address if you wish expansion on any topic.
Completed actions:
1. Telephone calls to lapsed members began last week- to encourage
rejoining and to find out reasons for leaving.
2. NAWCC_NEWS is up and running, but not enough posts yet. The habit needs to be learned.
3. Chapter visit invitations have gone out, with several responses, and several visits already scheduled.
4. Spending is being tightly controlled well below budget, unfortunately, membership and museum receipts are also below budget. More revenue is needed.
5. Council enacted that future budgets must be tied closely to membership levels to prevent further dues inflation.
6. No capital budget was approved, so any spending such as the chiller noise reduction project has to be approved by Council on an individual basis. Few projects will make it through that screen.
7. Grants in excess of $25,000 total have been obtained by Dr. Connelly our executive director, from various gov. and charitable agencies, for various purposes. Our annual goal for that will be $50,000.
8. Letter to the membership defining NAWCC and Regional tax free status has been obtained from legal counsel. This will be posted to this service next week.
9. The Idea Bank has been initiated to keep good ideas from getting lost.
10. The Museum accreditation self study has been completed and forwarded to the accreditation agency.
11. Dues for new members have been raised to $60 effective October 1. US resident members dues will be $50 commencing Jan. 1 2002. The Council approved increase in dues for renewal by lapsed members has not yet been instituted because of difficulties in getting this done at regionals, etc. This topic will be revisited at Jan. 2002 Council. Non US resident dues do not increase at this time.
12. The School of Horology, under Director Dan Nied, is revitalized, and growing again. Good management practices to handle school equipment, course notes and student recruiting are underway.
13. The Strategy and Governance Advisory Group was appointed under the chairmanship of Bill Lazarus (wcl@abq.com)
14. The new Web and Technology Committee is established and planning to rejuvenate the eMart as a first priority.
Work in Progress:
1. The Museum Trustees with support from Council, Chapters and many members will begin in October a campaign to ask members to endow the Museum and Library by immediate gifts or legacy plans.
2. Museum Trustees will review and revise as necessary the wording of the two main Endowment Funds-- one which allows some Trustee discretion as to how funds are allocated, and the other which does not allow this.
3. The Bylaws and Procedures Committee promises completion of a procedures manual (currently incomplete) and Bylaws proposals as needed, especially concerning the School of Horology, before the next Council meeting.
4. Membership and Publicity committee has several initiatives underway, not least of which is the members satisfaction surveys.
5. October Mart includes a questionnaire about how members want their membership information handled and or shared. Please respond. Council is trying to bring these questions to you before making policy.
6. Exec. Director Nancy Connelly is spending a lot of her time in fund raising outside of the NAWCC member community-- and expects to be successful. This is new to our Association.
7. The chiller sound reducers are currently being installed. Then will be tested to make sure they meet the reduction need.
Miscellaneous.
1. Our Museum acting curator Michelle Nichols has left to wed and move to Rhode Island. She did a very good job, especially since she was newly out of University little over a year ago. Hope to have candidate to replace her identified and hired soon.
2. Beth Bisbano, the Museum Committee and Trustees have acquired the paperwork collection of General Time Corp. using funds from Library endowment interest. This includes virtually all known Seth Thomas catalogs plus much more. Thanks to Trustees and volunteer Ward Francillon for helping speed this along. Little time was available.to make the decisions. Cost was $4400
I've almost certainly left something out . If so, will post again .
Sincerely,
Doug Cowan, Pres.
dcclock@juno.com