Regular Executive Board Meeting Number 05-6, 20 June 2005 at 10:00 am

Meeting called to order at 10:25 am. Present: Walker, Apana, Ballard, Chandler, Levin, Raimondi, Warner; excused: Luger. MMC to approve minutes of May 2005 meetings.

Secretary-Treasurer's Report: presentation of activities log, expense report, membership rolls, bank balance data, and new members. Receipt of correspondence from AFM, Philadelphia Local. Apana reported on finances as compared to previous year, budget revisions, and anticipated deficit. Roitstein arrived at 10:30 am.

Vice President's Report: presentation of written report. Roitstein reported on attendance at Film negotiations, including an RMA presentation on the state of the industry; Roitstein praised  RMA President Ayling's knowledge of the agreement and the industry. Roitstein reported on deterioration of the Estefan TV situation, including Estefan's request for low budget status of a related album. Roitstein proposed that the Federation take responsibility for compliance of agreements, specifically with Hip Hop and sampling; discussion of this in relation to proposed Convention Recommendation regarding Regional Resource Centers.

President's Report: presentation of written report. Walker reported on meeting with M Manley.

Symphonic Rep Report: Apana and Ballard reported on RCO negotiations.

Report of Committees:

  • Symphony/Organizing: no report

  • Recording: no report

  • Casual: no report

  • Education: no report

  • PR: no report

  • Scale: no report

  • Bylaw: no report

  • Health: Apana reported that the AFM health plan is nearing roll-out.

Special Orders: MMC to schedule next meeting for July 28 at 10:00 am. MMC to support all AFM Convention Recommendations and all Resolutions except 13, 34, 40, 48, 51, 53, 54, 55, 65, 68, 73, 75, 78, and 83; and conditional support of Resolutions 1 (provided that a democratic process is used to determine who operates Centers), 20 (provided that a less cumbersome increase than COLA is used and that this be passed through to members), 43 (based on financial impact to AFM), and 80 (provided that this does not increase disparity in number of convention votes as related to per capita of each Local). Levin departed at 2:51 pm.

Discussion of Master Plan and Booking Service. Warner departed at 3:27 pm.

MMC (moved by Apana) to appoint Chandler as Scale Committee Chair. MMC (moved by Apana) to increase advertising budget by $80 to reflect Knot.com increase. MMC (moved by Roitstein) to extend Business Agent for Booking and Contracting salary until next meeting so that the Board may have additional time to consider whether to continue this service.

Ballard and Raimondi departed at 3:51 pm, at which time the meeting adjourned.

                                                       

Jeffrey Apana, Secretary-Treasurer