ERA Board of Directo Wed. July 18, 20 Start Time: 7:3 ATTENDEES: Scot Thomas, Alan Melton, Harald Kober AGENDA: rs Meeting Minutes 07 4 PM ET t Fureman, Joe Bradish, Kenny Turner, Dan Smit h, Joe Davis, Jim Chris Thompson, Jerry Kiefer, Mike Dietrich, Mike Schroeder and 1. Dan Smith talked to Polly Shea to clarify some confusion regarding the ERE v ERA. a.) Polly agree been discontinued by the ERA. s. the d to remove information regarding the “weekly chat” because it has b.) Polly agr the ERA. Cc.) The ERA Sho d to remove the reference to the ERE being th w name is officially that and will continue to felt this was a good thing because it gave the ERA a lot of promot confusion remains. the ERA has no legal d.) The publica to other than rebuil rebuilders and suppl Dan Smith stated that the show is strictly an issues with that. tion of prices in the ERE paper was a concern official newspap er of be so. Jim Thomas ion, however, the BRE event and the to Dan Smith as i refore t goes ders. Polly Shea wants Dan Smith to tell her if this is a problem and offered to allow the ERA to clean up the ERE mailing list so t iers. Alan Melton, Dan Smith, Mike Schroeder, Dietrich, Scott Fureman, Kenny Turner and Jerry Kiefer offered to Shea’s help as she has a new program to separate out zip codes. D with Hank Henke to s if he will do his region. This may get new new ERA members. The goal of this project is to tell Polly Shea w and this should help paper. Jim Thomas t 2. Website Issu by computer novices. members who are not Thomas will do that meeting. Dan Smith the ERE and ERA because only qualified recipi hanked Dan Smith for his work on this item. es. Dick Vensel has expressed concern with th hat it only goes Chris Thompson, do this task with an Smith will che contacts for pot ho should get the ents will get the ase of websit to Mike Polly ck ential paper us Alan Melton and Joe Bradish suggested contacting 10-20 current ERA Dick Vensel and Jim with help from Wes Grueninger. We will get a report at the next talked to Wes Grueninger recently about website use and stated that Wes designed the ERA website, except for the forums, which are in a format that is used using the website to determine why this is so. worldwide. Span fil impossible per Wes. ters used by various providers make some requested changes virtually questions from membe put on the home page to implement them. has a specific probl 3. Joe Davis 20 regarding the histor new board members. in Grand Rapids, MI. AERAC (Canadian Elec The board will ask Wes if a “Dick Vensel corner” can be set up for rs. We will also ask Wes if a version of “for ums for dummies” can be . All of the attendees agreed these were good ideas and we will try Dan Smith also reported that Wes is willing to help any member who em with the solution. 08 proposal. Joe Davis referred to his recent email to board members y of the ERA training program. This was done to give the history to Joe Davis feels that neither rebuilders or the charged more for seminars. His 2008 proposal is for a seminar in and five more seminars in the fall of 2008. trical Association) appeared to be in trouble. from WAI in Canada would like Joe Davis to do a Canadian blitz of from Vancouver to No seminar. The ERA wo of the Canadian rebu that phone calls to convince older rebui va Scotia. These would cost the ERA $4000 and ERA can or shoul Joe reported that However Rick Ro seminars, six in WAI $1000 per d be spring at the ERA show the we total uld get the door receipts. Jim Thomas asked Harald Kober his opinion ilders. Harald stated that the east and west function separately from one another and that the population of Canada is very widespread. This makes getting the 40 attendees necessary for break even a substantial challenge. Harald rebuilders in Canada would help increase membe rship. He wants lders to participate to share their knowledg and experienc Thomas agreed that the age of the industry is a very large factor in membership as group is less likely to be technologically advanced. Joe Davis st people per seminar across Canada. Dan Smith suggested a guarantee from WAI to cover the ERA’s $4000 if the 40 people required for th they could get 50-60 did not attend, whil felt by all that thi dwindling. Joe Davi Schroeder expressed e splitting any additional revenue from over 4 s was the only way the ERA could do a Canada b s will take this proposal to WAI Canada for th financial viable and could be if sponsors worked at it. seminars follow the ated Rick Rowe sa e ERA break even 0 attendees. It litz as the treas eir approval. Mi feels to Jim that id point was ury is ke concern about the treasury and felt future seminars needed to be Canada format. All agreed. He suggested that all future Dan Smith stated that suppliers needed the incentive of making some money from the