Board Meeting Minutes

Radiochemistry Society

(Board Meeting Minutes: July 13, 2007)

(2:30 pm EST via Conference Call)

 

Board Members:

 

Present:  Larry Burchfield, PhD, Bruce Kaiser, PhD and Tim Bivens.

 

Absent: Chuan-Fu Wu, PhD

 

Quorum present? Yes

 

Proceedings:

 

Meeting called to order at 2:34 pm EST.

 

1. Meeting agenda with following items as sent to all board members on July 9 and July 13, 2007.

 

2. Larry Burchfield will be submitting a revised Governance Documents for the Radiochemistry Society per Best Practices outlined by the American Bar Association.  This review process will also include documents provided in previous meeting minutes dated March 17, 2006.

 

3.  Financial Report Given by Larry Burchfield for 2007:

         TOTAL .......... $133,805.88

         Expenses ....... $104,938.25

         Receivables..... $17,754.39

         Payables......... $8,463.58

         NET................ $38,158.44

        

         (note: Gross Revenues for all of 2006 was approximately $154,000.00)

        

4. Web Site Stats for 2007, through June: avg. of 130,000 page impressions per Month (1 million hits) with average of 125 Countries Visiting.

 

5.  Discussion on how to generate revenue on website sponsorships. Tim Bivens suggested that this will be done via personal  company contacts for marketing sponsorships. Suggested areas of focus perhaps would be within the field of chemistry or similar areas.

 

6.  Suggestions were made for addition of new Board Members. It was also suggested that someone that could serve in a technical capacity that has success in internet marketing would be an excellent addition.  Bruce Kaiser supported the addition of both Dennis Wester and Rusty Holden (as nominated by Larry Burchfield).

 

7.  Larry Burchfield made a motion for acceptance of a $25,000 Line of Credit being offered by the Bank of America.  All voted in favor of this motion.

 

8.  A motion was made to accept these minutes as binding and official record of the Radiochemistry Society.

 

9.  Meeting adjourned at  3:25 pm EST.

 

Meeting minutes submitted and record by the Corporate Secretary, Mr. Timothy Bivens.