Faculty Club Board Meeting Minutes
June 5, 2020
Present: Eleanor Divver, Gillian Tufts, Roxine Lawton, Mohammed Mirfakhrai, Ashok Tuteja, Xan Johnson, Judith Warner, Aaron Phillips, Man Hung, Abbas Rashidi
Ex-Officio: David Morrison, John Burton
Excused: David Pendell, Jill Moriearty, Jane Laird, Shawn Steidinger
Xan Johnson presiding, meeting began at 4:03p
Board Business
- Minutes
- October 2019 and February, both reviewed and passed
- Election for president elect (vice-president)
- Mohammed Mirfakhrai nominated himself
- Motion made to confirm Mo’s nomination, 2nd by Ashok, passed. Mo will be the vice-president for AY 2020-2021 and president 2021-2022
- Discussed who would be interested in being the Social Director for the AY 2021-2022
- Would be a good time to work with Eleanor over this next year
- Xan mentioned the Faculty Club members but really needs to be a FC board members
- Discussed having co-directors to share the work
- Reviewed the major events needing the social director vs the smaller events where a volunteer FC board member can do
- Divide the tasks and then both work with Eleanor this coming year
- Judith moved that Man Hung and Shawn Steidinger to be co-Social Directors 2021-2022, 2nd by Mo, passed
Social events
- Mo and Ashok to continue working on the hikes
- Abbas and Man will continue to work on establish Meet-up for hiking
- Did discuss concern of scheduling events now with increased infection rate
- Board will need to pass before begins
- Wildflower hikes
- Is currently on-line, information will be posted
- No guided hikes
- Groups of < 50 with Yellow alert with ability to physical distance/wear masks should be ok
- Discussed continuing to try with the Wildflower hike but with boxed lunch
- In July: the 18th
- Discussion re how to let the members know, a save the date email
- Who should do this, Judith to do (done)
- Gillian willing to take the lunch orders
- Roxine Lawton to keep track of the hike
- Faculty socials
- Discussed buffet style vs a type of “boxed” dinner
- Judith suggests meeting with Marriott with Xan and Eleanor to discuss the meals and how to physical distance
- Welcome back breakfast in August
- Discussed concern of how many faculty will actually be on campus with hybrid type class format
- Maybe instead with 2nd Friday in August have an outdoor event on the patio at the Marriott
- With “boxed” dinner
- Check with Marriott how there are doing drinks
- Did some brainstorming re group activities
- Indoor or outdoor
- Indoor/Zoom
- Comedy
- Group discussion around activity
- Crafts
- Book club discussion
- Outdoor
- The Hikes
- Bike rides or maybe stationary bike group activity
New items
- Need to address our administration support person
- Our support person is also assigned to academic senate, which has been a very intense position, leaving less time/bandwidth for FC issues
- What we need
- RSVPs
- Sending out notifications to the membership via the listserv
- Computer skills
- This position is also involved with Finances, paying bills, reconciling credit card, paperwork for people hired for activities (children’s party etc)
- Concern is money from Adult party sat for nearly 2 months before deposited
- Xan to look into this issue, to see # hours this position has slated for the Faculty Club
Next FC Board meeting: August 14 or possibly September 4, 2020 (depending on next social)
Meeting adjourned at 5:10pm