CNH Meeting
June 1, 2007

 

Members in attendance:  Kathleen Schori, Ray Dampier, Marty Scheuerman & Jeff Schori
Members Absent:  Tim Rochelle, Dave Nelson, Carol Rice, Jenne Mannle, Carolyn Higgins

FINANCE REPORT

  1. See attached report
  2. Kathleen Schori reported that she had ordered checks with the new mailing address and that she had received an ATM/VISA card for making payment to the website for Web Hosting.  Marty Scheuerman’s personal account will be removed after the June payment is made.  This will alleviate reimbursement to Marty for payments.
  3. Committee reviewed the Peppermill Contract and noted changes to be made. 
  4. Marty is to meet with Peppermill event staff and eliminate the parking lot rental for Tuesday and Thursday.
  5. Members recommend that a statement be made on the CNH website that members are encouraged to use the hotel block for room reservations as that will guarantee their room price as well as maintain the low conference registration fee.
  6. Last meeting Marty said he received a $250 refund check from the Peppermill but it has not been provided to the Treasurer for deposit.
  7. Marty and Kathleen canceled the US postal service box rental in Reno.  Kathleen received$1.00 cash from the key deposit.  This will be used for purchase of stamps.

 

PROGRAM CO0MMITEE MEETING UPDATE

  1. No members present, no update available
  2. Carol Rice reported via email that she had contacted the speakers she was assigned to contact.
  3. Kathleen reported she had contacted the Cal Fire speakers.

 

JOINING CNH CONFERENCE WITH OTHER MEETINGS

  1. Lake Tahoe Regional Chiefs are interested in combining with the Sierra Front members to have a combined meeting with CNH.  They will be voting at their June meeting.
  2. Kathleen contacted Frank Holbrook and left a message to obtain his mailing list for the FPO meeting to invite them to attend CNH while they are in Reno.

 

VENDOR ISSUES

  1. It was suggested that business cards be created to hand out to vendors when in contact with them at various meetings or incident bases.  Kathleen worked on creating an example for the June meeting but was unable to access the website to download the logo.  Cards would have CNH logo and dates for the 2007 Conference.
  2. Kathleen will send the draft business cards out to the Executive Committee for review.

 

CONFERENCE TIMELINE

  1. Per the timeline the following items need to be accomplished
  2. Program committee needs to firm up the speakers & topics. –Tim Rochelle
  3. Begin obtaining raffle items – Carolyn Higgins
  4. Send a conference pre-alert to all vendors as well as past participants encouraging people to begin making hotel reservations. - Kathleen
    1. Obtain California Fire Department (local government) email addresses from SFM – Kathleen
    2. Obtain Nevada Fire Department (local government) business/email addresses – Marty
    3. Contact www.wildland.com and see if they will post the conference announcement - Kathleen
  5. Discussed membership stuffers – Committee members encouraged to look at www.adspecs.com to see what is available and make recommendations back to Marty or Kathleen. 
    1. One idea was Bandannas with the CNH logo

 

WEBSITE

  1. During the meeting Marty re-registered for the domain renewal for our website.  The renewal expenditure of $81.70 pays for 10 years.

 

NEXT MEETING – September 28 at RENO FIRE DEPARTMENT Station 1 - 10:30 HOURS