Mentor of ARISIA Volume 12, Issue 95; March 2000

• Date, Time and Place: Meeting called to order at 3:29 PM Sunday, 19 March 2000 in Room 168 of Building 66 at MIT.
• In Attendance: Drea Brandford, Elka Tovah Menkes, Skip Morris, Tom Murphy, Brendan Quinn, Paul Selkirk, Nicholas Shectman, and Cris Shuldiner. In the absence of the President, Cris Shuldiner as VP chaired the meeting.
• Proxies No proxies were introduced for this meeting.
• Minutes of the Previous Meeting No objections were raised to the recording of the minutes of the previous meetings.
• President's Report (Noel Rosenberg) Not present / no report.
• EBoard Report (Noel Rosenberg) No Report.
• Vice President's Report (Cris Shuldiner) I am investigating the purchase of Family Radio Service (FRS) band radios to replace rental radios as well as investigating the purchase and use of cellular phones for the same purpose. So far, the research results lean towards the purchase of Motorola FRS 250's for ops/logistics/misc use, and I'm following up on rumors of more powerful FRS radios for Security.
• Grant Committee (Cris Shuldiner) The Grant Committee has a recommendation to present to the EBoard concerning a grant request from MassFen. Pending the EBoard's review and recommendation, it will be ready to present to the Membership at the next meeting. Also, based partly in that we have had a single grant request this term, we are decided that we would like to run 1/4 page ads in up to 3 SF/F magazines to let folks know that ARISIA is available to consider grant requests. We are currently discussing which magazines to advertise in.
• Treasurer's Report (Skip Morris) I'm working on a motion to alter the rates at which Art Show charges artists for space. The idea is to favor the amateur / emerging artist while remaining affordable for the professional. Not much else is going on.
• Budget Committee (Skip Morris) Nothing substantial to report.
• Clerk's Report (Merv) The Clerk ran through his usual spiel extolling the Membership to sign in, to submit reports in writing or suffer the possibility of transcription errors, that major items of new business be presented to the EBoard for consideration before presentation to the Membership, and that persons joining before this corporate meeting shall pay at the rate of $12 and after the meeting at $10. Notes come in, MENTOR goes out. I'm still waiting on the receipt of some equipment and records, but have been assured that they're on their way.
• ARISIA '00 (Paul Selkirk) Strangely enough, the Con experienced a spontaneous restart when no one was looking. However, thanks to the Logistics Crew and the judicious use of Gravity, it was successfully ended, again. Other than that, nothing to report.
• ARISIA '00 Treasury (Phi) As of today, Arisia '00 has $22,476.55 in its checking account and net assets of $25,728.74 including accounts payable and receivable. I anticipate additional expenses and income to bring the bottom line to approximately $20,000. About $8,000 of this represents one-time items in the hotel budget area. Apart from one-time items, I expect expenses to be under by about $2,000 and income to be over by about $3,500.
• ARISIA '01 (Elka Tovah Menkes) Still waiting on the recommendation of the EBoard for a Treasurer.
• Corporate Inventory Control (Carsten Turner) Not Present / No Report.
• Corporate Sales No Report.
• Corporate SysAdmin (Cris Shuldiner) No Report.
• Long Range Planning Committee (Paul Selkirk, Chair) No Report.
• Records Task Force (Ben Levy, Chair) No Report.
• Survey Committee (Ben Levy) Ditto.
• Old Business The motion submitted by Brendan Quinn on behalf of Rachel Silverman was taken off the table, and the Chair used his Executive Privilege to determine that the motion was meant to read "MOTION: to create a Corporate Technical Equipment Committee to determine and propose how we should maintain, purchase or rent equipment for conventions." Motion CARRIES as the Chair determined it to be.
• New Business MOVED to amend Corporate Policy as follows: The Collection of Dues from the Membership shall be performed by the Clerk; who shall then issue a Receipt for the dues, inscribe the name of the Member upon the Roster, and forward the monies with the appropriate paperwork to the Treasurer of the Corporation. Motion TABLED to the EBoard for review and to allow for the publication of this motion to the Membership pursuant to the ARISIA Corporate ByLaws, Section 2.4, Subsection E. The Membership voted to set the dates for future meetings as set forth in the Calendar. MOVED to rent some Technical Equipment to Lunacon and Costumecon; the proceeds from this rental to be earmarked for Technical Equipment Purchases, Technical Equipment Repair, and Technical Equipment Upgrades. Motion CARRIES.
• Announcements The Corporation is still seeking candidates for Convention Chairperson for ARISIA '02.
• Meeting Adjourned at 4:49 PM

Special Announcement
As noted above in the minutes of the EBoard meeting, a Grant Recommendation is now before the membership. Since the group applying for the grant has been determined to have a restrictive membership covenant, a vote of the membership is required to grant or deny this application; pursuant to the ByLaws, at least half of ARISIA's Membership must attend the meeting at which the vote shall be taken. We would therefore encourage the Membership to make a concerted effort to attend the next General Corporate Meeting. It is our hope that members of MassFen will be available at this meeting to answer any questions the Membership may have.

Executive Board

President Noel Rosenberg PO Box 464 Chelmsford, MA 01824-0464 781 229-5323 (work) noel@concept5.com	Arisia 2000 ConChair Paul Selkirk 112A Marblehead Street North Reading, MA 01864 978 664-6365 paul@apocalypse.org
Vice President Cris Shuldiner 27 Varnum Street Haverhill, MA 01832 978 521-7039 cws@theforge.com	ARISIA 2000 Treasurer Nicholas Shectman 75 Lexington Avenue Somerville, MA 02144   Phi@apocalypse.org
Treasurer Skip Morris PO Box 542 Merrymack, NH 03054-0542 603 888 5567 morris@mv.mv.com	ARISIA 2001 ConChair Elka Tovah Menkes 41 Addington Road Brookline MA 02445-4519   etm@world.std.com
Clerk Tom "Merv" Murphy 154 Amherst Road Apartment 12 Belchertown, MA 01007   Marvmerv@astro.umass.edu	ARISIA 2001 Treasurer Pending

Committee Members & Corporate Appointed Officers

Corporate Systems Administrator Cris Shuldiner	Budget Committee Skip Morris, Chair
Corporate Inventory Control Carsten Turner	Corporate Sales Officer
Long Range Planning Committee Paul Selkirk Tom Murphy Cris Shuldiner	Grant Committee Cris Shuldiner Buzz Harris Scott Campanella Walter Kahn
Survey Committee Ben Levy	Records Task Force Ben Levy
Evil HR Director Niccolo Machiavelli

Membership Roster

Aaron Agassi	Patrick McCormack
Rob Bazemore	Elka Tovah Menkes
Drea Brandford	Skip Morris
Brian Cooper	Ailsa Murphy
Tom Coveney	Tom "Merv" Murphy
Adam Ek	Brendan Quinn
Marshall Ellis	Mary Robison
Tom Fish	Noel Rosenberg
George Flyn	Matthew Saroff
Glen R. Goodwin	Paul Selkirk
Buzz Harris	Nicholas Shectman
Lisa Hertel	Cris Shuldiner
Walter Kahn	Rachel Silverman
Allan Kent	Carsten Turner
'Zanne Labonville	Pat Vandenberg
Ben Levy

Membership/Subscription Information

Subscription to Mentor of ARISIA is included with Corporate Membership to ARISIA, Incorporated. Membership runs from September 1st to August 31st and costs $24.00. Dues are pro-rated on a monthly basis for members joining during the year.

September	$24		March	$12
October	$22		April	$10
November	$20		May	$08
December	$18		June	$06
January	$16		July	$04
February	$14		August	$02

Calendar of Events

Sunday, 16 April 2000, 4:00 PM
ARISIA Corporate Meeting, MIT Building 66
Please note the change from the normal time.

Monday, 15 May 2000, 7:00 PM
ARISIA Corporate Meeting, Location TBD

Wednesday through Saturday, 26-29 May 2000
CostumeCon 18, Hartford Hilton, Hartford, CT
CostumeCON

Sunday, 11 June 2000, 2:00 PM
ARISIA Corporate Meeting, MIT Building 66

Thursday, 13 July 2000, 7:00 PM
ARISIA Corporate Meeting, Location TBD

Friday through Sunday, 21-23 July 2000
Readercon 12, Burlington Marriott, Burlington MA
ReaderCON

Sunday, 13 August 2000, 2:00 PM
ARISIA Corporate Meeting, MIT Building 66

Thurs- through Monday, 31 August - 04 September 2000
58th Annual Worldcon at Chicon 2000, Chicago, IL

Sunday, 17 September 2000, 2:00 PM
ARISIA Annual Corporate Meeting, MIT Building 66
Come one, come all!

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