TEDC Board Meeting Minutes

Members present:  Wood, Brady, Lawyer, Oliveri, Spurgeon, Theiss, and Suzie Lusk.    

The meeting was called to order by Spurgeon at 10:05 AM. 

The minutes from the last meeting were reviewed.   A motion was made by Oliveri to approve which was seconded by Theiss.   The minutes passed.

Financials were deferred until the next meeting.

Denton, who was unavailable for the conference call passed along to Suzie Lusk who reported to the board the report of the Past President’s Board member nominating committee.    The Nominating Committee has recommended the following slate of officers for 2006/07:

President – Mark Herbison
Vice President – Doug Lawyer
Secretary/Treasurer – Walt Wood
Immediate Past President – Kyle Spurgeon
West Tennessee Director – Holly Holt
Middle Tennessee Director – Robert Barnes
East Tennessee Director – Darryl Brady
SEDC Director  - Marco Oliveri
SEDC Alternate – Elizabeth Theiss
State Liaison – Paul LaGrange

Oliveri made a motion that the TEDC Board has received the above recommendations from the Past President’s Nominating Committee, and the Board will recommend this full slate to a membership vote at the Spring Conference.     The motion was seconded by Lawyer, and the motion passed. 

There has been discussion regarding a possible phasing out of the SEDC Alternate Board position.   Spurgeon had a discussion with SEDC Executive Director, Gene Stinson who noted that TEDC is the only organization in all of SEDC which has a SEDC Alternate position.    It was decided to leave the SEDC Alternate position alone for the time being and have Theiss finish out her remaining one year term on this seat.      The TEDC board will still pursue the concept of having a TCCE liaison position added to the TEDC board. 

Lawyer briefed the board on the status of the TEDC Comparative Incentive Analysis.   A draft RFP has been put together and is being tweaked by Lawyer, Denton and LaGrange.   Spurgeon directed Lawyer to form a TEDC Comparative Incentives Task Force to assist the Board in reviewing RFP’s from consultants and making a recommendation to the Board.    It was discussed to have this task force be made up of both Board members and members at large from each grand division. 

Spurgeon brought up the issue of TEDC dues structure revisions.    He noted that Article III, Section X of the TEDC By-laws lay the groundwork for a TEDC membership committee to be made up of one Director and three members at large nominated by the Regional Directors.    Spurgeon is going to ponder convening this committee to review dues.     A quick study of other SEDC organizations was done to determine how TEDC dues compare to other organizations and this information can be shared with the committee.

There was no old or new business.

The next meeting is scheduled for April 19, 2006 at 11 CST.