Conference Call

ExCom Meetings

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section

Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

March 16, 2018

 

Attendees: Kayla, Rebecca, Julie, Paul

  • Officer Reports
    • President (Rebecca)
    • Secretary-Treasurer (Kayla)
      • 2017 Annual Report
      • Expenses/Income Time series (see below)
      • Membership
        • Currently at 395
      • Taxes have been filed
      • Software proceeds for 2018
        • 7273.20(all FAMS-64)
  • Committee Updates
    • ESAB (Rebecca)
      • Putting together membership services survey
      • April is the goal date to send out
    • Communications Committee (Julie)
      • Motion through management committee to put the vote out to the membership to make a standing committee
      • Deciding on panel discussions topic at Atlantic City
      • Working on a guide for how a unit can create their own communication plan
      • FITS should consider a communications plan
        • Call for a communications coordinator
  • Old Business
    • Fishackathon (Rebecca/Paul/Julie)
      • Local winners announced
      • Winner to be picked this month
      • More information was shared in a post on FITS facebook page
    • Symposium 2018 (Julie)
      • Title: Data Management for Dissemination and Data Visualization
      • Reaching out to speakers
      • Abstract deadline extended to April 3rd.
      • Symposium abstract link here!
    • Website and Newsletter (Kayla/Rebecca)
      • Old website hacked
        • Will be redirected to new site-Kayla
      • New website permissions issue
        • No issues
      • Content needed
        • Add archive information-Kayla
        • Update events past symposium –Julie
      • Review RSS newsletter before deployment
        • Newsletter is live. To send out every Monday
  • New Business?
    • No new business
  • Action Items
  • Organize travel partnership program (Rebecca, Julie, Kayla)
  • Announce the call for a FITS communications coordinator (Julie)
  • Set up redirect to new website (Kayla)
  • Add content to website (Julie, Kayla)
  • Year Total income Software Dues Total expenses Travel Ending balance
    2006 141347 2928.14 611 129410 1283 22681
    2007 40189 2904 1153 40325 2363 22545
    2008 87463 2305 1730 79683 3620 30325
    2009 105908 1700 583 101731 3621 34502
    2010 95429 913 1444 89995 13641 39935
    2011 61595 2675 600 60594 6957 40937
    2012 56536 4693 1055 50544 350 46928
    2013 51237 3027 5 47604 870 50561
    2014 51071 27766 1755 47536 4056 55096
    2015 1998 1041 907 1934 349 55159
    2016 1004 208 746 3378 0 52785
    2017 7270 6190 1025 627 0 59383

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