Members present: President Hagit Limor, vice president Felix Winternitz, treasurer Alex Coolidge, Amanda Van Benschoten, Emil Dansker,

1.)     Come to order. President Hagit Limor called the meeting to order at 11:34 a.m.

2.)     Approval of minutes from last meeting. Moved by Felix. Seconded by Alex. Motion passes.
-There was discussion whether we should we be emailing this information to the entire list, or only Cincy members? Options are to email just the paid members and post on the web site. Felix suggests mailing the list serve one time to inform them if they’re interested, they can find the information on the web site.

3.)     Old business –

- Update on local banquet. Hagit reports $2K in from Scripps. Channel 9 is buying two tables of eight. Federated/Macy’s $1,500, Hagit got check. Waiting for Verizon. Time Warner Cable sponsoring $500 for local and $2,000 for state. Also E.W. Scripps, the Enquirer and Frost Brown Todd.
-A manda reports local banquet invites went out Thursday. Total cost with mailing is $544. RSVPs dues Sept. 7. There will be cash bar and silent auction. Need to approve program, which honors Queen City SPJ’s 40th anniversary. Banquet is 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, at the Phoenix downtown, with a reception prior at 6:30 p.m. in the Cincinnati Club next door, sponsored by Cincy Business magazine. Emcee is WCPO news anchor Carol Williams. Hall of Fame inductees: Wayne Perry, Cincinnati Post, Ron Fischer, WCPO, Tom Hubbard, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Powel Crosley Jr. and Lewis M. Crosley, WLW.

Raffle – Hagit has one restaurant coupon, one hairdresser. Felix is donating 10 copies of his book, Insider’s Guide to Cincinnati. Emil offers his historic newspapers, as well as his newsboy statues.

Contest – Shall we budget to give plaques to first place winners? Hagit says yes, if we keep it under $10 per plaque. There are 63 first place awards.

New business –

President’s report – Hagit.
Membership drive. We have 77 members, gained two, but lost one, Joe Wessels. Membership issue: Shall we have local-only membership option? Hagit has frustrations with National’s online form, which makes it optional to join local chapter even when we are doing all the recruiting. Felix seconds this frustration, especially when most of money goes to National already.
Jen-J Project: Event scheduled for 9/20 at Mulligan’s Bar in Hyde Park.
Publicity List: Completed, available for publicizing our events.
Convention: Does anyone else intend to go?
City Council Debate: Anyone to represent SPJ to help put this together.
Regional’s report to National: RD Kevin Smith submitted his report to National. Alex and Hagit saw a preliminary report only, not the final version. But what we saw summarized what we’ve discussed: long-standing lapses in record-keeping with a recommendation to implement new processes, which we’ve done.  Our chapter has reiterated our stance to stay out of any Regional or National move to discuss or act upon any former financial issues.
Move next meeting to third Wednesday of Sept., which is Sept. 19. 11:30 a.m., WCPO. Amanda requests all items for silent auction be brought to this meeting or dropped off at Grandview offices of Kentucky Enquirer in No. Ky.

Treasurer’s report – Alex.
We have $7,636.57 in primary account since last meeting, includes Phoenix deposit and other banquet costs, with ticket revenue to come. Outstanding cost of $943.92 and check of $1,500 delivered to Alex at meeting. Amanda adds we will have deposits coming in from banquet, say a 100 people at $40 per ticket is $4,000. 200 people would equal $8,000. Board votes to invite student chapter presidents at Miami and UC, per Emil’s nomination. Discussion of CACU College Scholarship Account.

Secretary’s report –
1. E-Newsletter Should have first one (A September issue) out by the end of the month.
    1. I want to keep it simple in plain body of the email format. I think  if we try to attach a PDF, a vast majority of our members won¹t open it.
    2. Content: For September¹s issue. I was going to have notes about our  upcoming events and the banquet. You had mentioned someone giving us a  500 word piece about the anxiety of being a journalist? If you could  pass that person¹s contact along to me, I would appreciate it. I think  it would be good to include some kind of featured content like that in  every issue. I¹d also like a 200ish-word letter from you about  whatever you, as president, deem relevant. If Suzanne could provide a  short piece about the importance of Gen-J for not only young people but all of SPJ I think that could be worthwhile. I¹m not sure many of  our members, old or young, now what Gen-J is. Then wrap it up with an event calender and job postings, if any.
2. Web site coming, but slowly. In a separate email I included a proof of what the main page will currently look like. Once I figure out how to make the buttons actually go somewhere, we should be in business.
1. I am ( I think) scheduled to meet with Joe Wessels about cincyspj.org this week as well. So, we¹ll see if he has any insight.
3. My apologies for not being there in person. My work schedule is crazy right now.


Be prepared next board meeting for group photo.

4.) Committee reports –

Programs. New member party 8/30 at Embers in Kenwood.
Contest:
From Jeannine: I still have some questions for Knoxville- so we could possibly add ten to all these numbers
63 First Place Awards
48 Second Place Finishes
36 Third Places
21 Honorable Mentions