Marketing Education Association Annual Conference Business Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada
January 18, 2009 11:10 a.m.
Call to Order: President Cecil Lara called the meeting to order at the Breakfast Meeting of the Marketing Education Association’s Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Financial Report: Norma Joiner presented the Combined Balance Sheet and Combined Profit and Loss Statements for fiscal years ending June 30, 2007 and June 30, 2008. She pointed out the Profit and Loss Statement shows an $11,850.24 loss for July 1-June 30-2008. Some reasons for that loss are the $2,250.00 deposit for this year’s Las Vegas Conference which was actually paid during last year’s fiscal year, $1,400.00 has not been received from the Foundation Board for ICDC, and $2,000.00 was paid for a conference coordinator at the Point Clear conference which was an unusual expenses. On-line renewal has been helpful.
Accolades: A huge thank you to Deb Moore and Ken Mattern for running a great conference and keeping the conference expenses down through negotiations with the hotel. A gift was presented to each of them.
MEA Elections: Ken Mattern will be taking the remainder of Deb Moore’s MEA position since she is now on the Board as ACTE Representative. Two positions will be open after June 30. Anyone interested in these positions, should apply. An email will be sent asking for nominations, and voting will take place.
Next Year’s Conference: It was announced that next year’s MEA conference will be in Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, or a Cruise. The site could be located where we have a lot of marketing teachers but not many MEA members. It needs to be a destination of good entertainment and/or shopping. Pam Naylor suggested Albuquerque. Deb moved and Lloyd seconded to hold the 2010 conference in Phoenix during Martin Luther King weekend. Motion carried.
ICDC Booth: Two people worked the MEA booth last year at ICDC and were very productive. An invitation was given to all MEA members to help with the booth this year.
Membership: Encourage others to join MEA for only $1.00 for the first year.
MEA Foundation Board: Craig Cleveland explained that the MEA Foundation Board was established as a perpetual fund to generate funds for MEA’s outreach. The fund has approximately $40,000. This is an opportunity to recognize a deserving individual by raising a minimum of $1,200 on behalf of that individual. A packet of information on the process will be forthcoming. Awards are listed on the website.
Conference Debriefing: We should incorporate more post-secondary teaching ideas and activities next year. Ken will put together comments he has received from the conference. Carl Schmidt suggested someone should write an article to DECA Dimensions regarding how the conference gave great DECA ideas such as written events. Lots of great meals were included in registration including Friday lunch, Saturday breakfast, lunch, $25 dinner certificate, and Sunday breakfast. Carl Schmidt volunteered to help with featuring best practices and profiling individuals and chapters on the website. The conference was enjoyable, and it is nice to be able to take projects home to use the next day. Attendees' names and additional activities will be emailed.
Certificates: Cecil passed out attendance certificates to those in attendance.
Adjournment: Deb moved and Ken seconded to adjourn the meeting at 12:15. Motion carried.
Respectfully submitted,
Sherry Dockery, MEA Secretary