The meeting convened at 10:18 am, following a tour of the NHCC theatre complex.

Welcome to Daniel Garcia, new board member.

The minutes of the February meeting were approved.

FINANCE REPORT
• Claudia has been pursuing and applied for an ATG credit card with no service fees and no interest rate for the first 6 months. Claudia will hear back in a few weeks. We expect to pay off balance monthly, not accrue large interest fees.
• Tiered savings account, better interest. No service fee.
• More money coming in from McCune, still more reason to move funds around. All of McCune and ½ of checking to move there. ~$13k.  Meets $10k tier 2 level. 
• ~$5300 in savings.
• >$10k in checking.
• $5k in CD.
• Claudia now has capacity to send finance reports (by April), with new version of Quickbooks. Focus on cleaning up the books.
• Good feedback from bank, they are happy to serve our growing needs.
• Will try to pay bank fees with account interest.
• McCune grant- $8k, date for using money is Feb 2011. This is earmarked for operational expenses.
• With last grant, we paid tax to extend money.
• No earmarks on this grant at all. How do we decide how this will be spent? Some discussion to date on Web site upgrades. Have already paid MIS system renewal.
• We need a system for how to disperse these monies. Out of order for the moment, next steps Kristen and Claudia keep this and mind, and bring something back to board April meeting.

EVENTS IN NEAR FUTURE
• April Board meeting is Saturday April 10 at 10am at the Explora Theatre (Children’s Science Museum, Patricia Decker). Preston to chair.
• May Board meeting is May 1 at 10am with venue TBD. Explore Working Classroom, Daniel to check.
• General membership meeting is May 15th at 10am. (should take place no later than the 15th of May, last year exceeded that). This is a meeting where individual members conduct their election for their representatives to the board. Virginia and Val’s positions are up for re-election; perhaps Georgia’s as well. Some other items for the meeting are input from individual members, status reports, coaching on uploading resumes and headshot onto website. Georgia & Preston will plan and reserve a venue for this meeting at which 35-40 attendees are expected. Need to determine how long the meeting will run. Must send printed reminder of the General meeting by a certain date. Hugh will assist Georgia and Preston with sending out the reminder.

STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES WORK
• Virginia has sent Action Register to all board members.
• Key action item is for Eli and Preston to complete script/presentation. Every board member has assigned tasks/actions. Board members need to partner up for these visits, at their own discretion. 

BUZZ COMMITTEE
Report submitted in writing.
• PDF file of the latest ATG brochure was received Friday night.
• Next brochure: perhaps may reduce advertising scope. Richard Boehler has provided some consultation on how we move forward. Buzz Comm will need to decide on approach for decision making.
• It may be a good idea to look at if we are getting the brochures into the right hands. Linda has been monitoring the leftovers – let’s document the trends so we can learn from this. We need to map distribution better.
• PR Services: A motion was made to appropriate $250/month for 6 months Kelle Koepke, professional writer, to publish our event calendar and press release monthly to her distribution list.  Motion passed with all in favor.
• ACVB Board: A motion was made and passed, with all in favor, that Linda will be nominated for one of the 6 open ACVB Board member positions, and that the board supports helping her to redistribute some of her ATG responsibilities should she be elected.
• Radio ads: A motion was made and passed with all in favor of spending $250 for KUNM radio advertising.

UNITY COMMITTEE
• No meeting since last month. 
• Claudia & Erin are working on annual Gala, which will be a mixer/networker. Checking on Balloon Museum as the possible venue—not free, but working on getting a discounted rate. They suggest an evening during the week. Working to set date. 
• Virginia updating props/costume sharing matrix. 
• Looking for a new chairperson for this committee by the end of Virginia’s term in June.
• Hair & Makeup workshop: It’s moving forward slowly at this time. Coordinating with Georgia who is also planning workshops.
• Need to set a date for General Auditions by April board meeting.

WEB COMMITTEE
• Still need to meet soon to review Web Site. List of improvements for the web site is still being collected. Need to prioritize list, explore feasibility, and then review with board.
• Hugh’s letter acknowledging individual member media recognition was excerpted and posted in the Call Board’s “Members in the Spotlight” section.
• Will get PDF brochure file uploaded and accessible in next day or so.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
• In process of submitting project proposal to Strategic Objective matrix.
• Tiering of non-voting members – see report.
• A motion was made to approve Hugh’s documented proposal, which passed with all in favor.

PLAYWRIGHT’S CIRCLE
• Joint event with Director’s Circle was held.
• Chair is now Howie Kaibel who was elected head of the circle. Circle is going strong.

DIRECTOR’S CIRCLE
• Had a well-attended meeting at Flying Star – 18 people attended.
• Next event is with Leonard Berkman.
• Still needs new leader. Linda is covering it on an interim basis. She is trying to set up governance.

ACTOR’S CIRCLE
• No update.

Task Force for City Safety Inspections
• Meeting 2 weeks from today – March 20. Have expanded list of city invitees (building inspection, electrical inspection), to pursue questions of member groups.
• Claudia and Josh working on checklist.
• Colby creating system of educational sessions.
• Hugh working on a more intelligible & useful digest of seating code.
• Architect for Filling Station solution has made himself available to other theatres.

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS FESTIVAL
• Get committed groups together first, then extend to others.
• Teatro NM is committed with Spanish flavored ‘Streetcar’. 

Meeting adjourned at 12:20 pm.