NTMA - Regular Membership Meeting - 3/8/02

The Regular Membership Meeting was a joint technical society dinner, held in conjunction with SME and other trade associations. SME handled all arrangements and reservations. The meeting was held at Radisson Hotel Clayton, St. Louis, MO.

There was no other regular meeting in March.

Minutes - NTMA Board of Directors

February 12, 2002 - Viking Restaurant - 6:30 p.m.

The meeting was called to order at 645 p.m. by President Syl Fontana.

PRESENT:

Syl Fontana, Jim Newman, Kim Hayden, Gay Eggemeyer Schwer, Bill Bachman, Sr., Dave Smith. Also Present: Sharon Majoros

ABSENT:

Tom Rhoads, Mike Mittler, Brad Turnquist

MINUTES:

The Minutes of the January 15, 2002 Board of Directors Meeting and the February 5, 2002 Regular Membership Meeting were approved as presented.

CORRESPONDENCE:

A thank you letter was received from The St. Louis Crisis Nursery for the $1,164.00 donation made at Christmas.

TREASURERS REPORT:

The balance in the N.O.W. account as of 2/12/02 is $9,463.50. The balance in the C.D. as of 2/12/02 is $19,392.14. The past due accounts were discussed. It was agreed to write off the following invoices: Gus Wagner of DADCO for the 2001 golf outing of $75.00; DADCO third quarter 2001 dues of $100.00; DADCO fourth quarter 2001 dues of $100.00; DADCO 2002 web page ad of $250.00, Metal Express semi-annual 2001 dues of $200.00. Gay is checking on NTMA Tax Exempt status. Gay will talk with Tom Rhoads regarding the Quicken program that Sharon is using to see if the program can be used more fully. Gay will be working on the 2002 budget and have it available at the next meeting.

TRUSTEE:

No report

GOVERNMENT RELATIONS/PAC:

With the phone calls that Kim made, the St. Louis letter-writing campaign participation raised from 37.04% to 62.96%.

MEMBERSHIP:

There was a Team meeting held yesterday with 5 or 6 people in attendance. The following membership resignations were regretfully accepted: Defiance Innovations Ltd. Company; Arnette Pattern Company/Midwest Machining & Fabricating; Fab Lab, Inc.; Savco Manufactruing Company, Inc.; and Kuester Tool & Die, Inc. as regular members. The associate membership of Yamazen, Inc. was also regretfully accepted. The following companies were canceled from membership for non-payment of dues: DADCO and Metal Express, both associate members. Due to the fact that there were many regular member cancellations, the application of Federated Mutual Insurance will not be able to be accepted because of the regular member/associate member percent ratio.

INSURANCE:

A check for the fourth quarter royalty of $4,640.12 was received by Sentry Insurance. Syl and Tom met with Sentry Insurance representatives regarding our contract. The chapter will now only received royalties for members. Previously, we were receiving royalties from all companies with Sentry insurance in our region. To offset this change Sentry is going to increase our percentage of royalty from 1.5% to 2%. We should probably be getting the same amount of money with this agreement. The Membership Team will be targeting these non-member companies to see if they can get them as members.

PUBLIC RELATIONS:

C.J. Smith will have an ad in the next newsletter. There will also be an article regarding this ad indicating that other companies will be able to place an ad in the newsletter for $500.00. Dave checked on Whitmoor Country Club and they wanted $71.00 per person, which he felt, was too expensive. Dave and Tom will work on getting a more reasonably priced golf course.

NIMS

No report

TRAINING:

The apprenticeship competition went well and the winner is from Bachman Machine Company. A thank you will be sent to all those companies that donated tooling. The Career Fair will be held on March 13-14 at the Convention Center. Kirk Grass and Jim will work together on this event. Jim asked if any board members would be interesting in helping. Last year they had approximately 14,000 students in attendance. The National apprenticeship competition is being held in California and Jim would like to attend. He asked if NMTA could help with the cost. Dave Smith will check to see if he can transfer some of his frequent flyer miles to Jim. Jim indicated that Jefferson College would pay for the hotel cost. Jim is going to get a 2' x 8' NTMA banner at a cost of about $35.00.

OLD BUSINESS:

The Saturday night event at the Joint meeting was discussed. It was felt that an International night would be fun. Sharon will check on food for Friday evening. Sharon will also check on entertainment for Saturday evening.

SCHOLARSHIP:

It was discussed and felt that the scholarship fund should be funded by the golf outing profits. The golf outing would be advertised as being a fund-raiser for the scholarship fund. It was discussed that a scholarship should not be presented to a particular school, rather have applications from all member schools and then present the scholarship to the student most worthy of the scholarship. Dave will write up a proposal for next month. Sharon will check and see if National has someone that could review the scholarship applications so that there would be a non-biased person doing the review.

WEB PAGE:

Kim loaned Sharon the program for creating your own web page. Sharon will work on trying to figure out the program. Kim agreed to help her. The Lindy Wagner proposal was tabled until next month.

CHRISTMAS PARTY:

The ladies had checked on several locations and have come up with some ideas.

ADJOURNMENT:

The meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m.