PCC Board Meeting Minutes

June 7, 2010

The meeting was called to order at 5:10.

In attendance were Kip Morse, Holly Richard, B.C. Nair, Bill Owens, Dick Webster, Kathy Moore, Pat Kelso, and George Callendine.

President’s Report

Kip Morse, President, welcomed everyone and talked about some new ideas for our meetings.  His idea was to have 4 board meetings a year that were devoted to governance, strategic planning, and “housekeeping” issues.  The remaining monthly meetings could highlight particular programs or committees and also involve a speaker.  This would give us an opportunity to invite the community to our meetings to increase awareness of PCC and its mission.  There was some discussion as to the number of  “community” meetings and whether some of the monthly meetings should be devoted to time for the committees to meet.

Executive Director’s Report

Holly Richard gave the Executive Director’s report and discussed how we were coming on filling our committees.  Most of our program areas are filled, although we could still use more participation in the word of the month area, as well as fundraising.  She also introduced a tracking sheet that all  committee chairs would fill out on a regular basis (either monthly or bi-monthly).  There were some suggestions made to modify the form to include an area for needed resources.  Holly will revise the form and present it for approval.

We did not have a Treasurer’s report this month.

OLD BUSINESS-

Circle of Grandparents-  B.C. Nair talked about the wonderful end of the year the Grandparents had.  It was very successful.  He also talked about the Grandparents working with the Word of the Month committee as they essentially will have the same goal.  He suggested meeting with the Principals in October to increase awareness of WOM

CIA-  Pat Kelso talked about the successful year the kids in CIA have had.  They are looking to update their sits and want to really emphasize the small group discussions that happen after the skits.  She would also like for us to budget for T-shirts for the CIA kids so they can be identifiable as well as giving them a sense of really being part of the group.  Holly Richard made a motion to approve the expenditure and it was seconded by Kathy Moore.  The final comment Pat made regarding CIA was that for the first time the TWHS students and the WKHS students are planning on collaborating on skits and ideas.

Griswold at Home- Dick Webster and Bill Owens discussed the Griswold At Home project.  I will attach their handouts, but in brief, their desire was to extend PCC’s  activities to older citizens in Worthington and Greater Worthington area.  Essentially they are looking at PCC to be their 301c home.  The funds would move through PCC who would gain some financial benefit from this.  The benefits to Griswold at Home would be the 301c home and the backing of PCC.  The benefit to PCC would be some influx of funds and the ability to provide services to older members of our community.  Griswold at Home is looking to create a strategic alliance with the City of Worthington and are meeting soon with the city to solidify this.  There was a recommendation made that the Griswold at Home project should be incorporated as a PCC program and that there should be a standing committee led by Bill Owens to move forward with the discussion about if this is a direction that would benefit both PCC and Griswold at Home.  The motion was made by Kip Morse and seconded by Kathy Moore. 

The meeting was adjourned at 6:40.

NEW BUSINESS

Debra Stephens talked about the Circle of Grandparents celebration and asked that anyone who could help with set-up and serving would be very much appreciated.

Jim McElligott talked about the desire to create a story time at Children’s Hospital in honor of his granddaughter, Campbell.  It would be called “Campbell’s Story Hour” and contributors could either give money for books or contribute books that the children who were hospitalized could enjoy after the story time.  This would involve no additional cost to PCC, but would make any contributions give eligible for a tax write-off.  The motion was whole-heartedly approved with a motion to approve by George Callandine and a second by Kathy Moore.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:50pm.