Board Minutes: 2007
The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, David Paul, Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck, John Philbin Dolan, Rich Morrow.
1. Michael Wilkins moved to approve the November minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Rich Morrow: Motioned to accept new members: Jennifer Buehn, Cela Gambetta, Angela Hardy, Danaya Zakharava. Unanimously Approved.
11. John Philbin Dolan motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul, Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck, John Philbin Dolan, Rich Morrow.
1. Michael Wilkins moved to approve the November minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Michael Wilkins moved that the Richard Schmid’s donation to go directly to the soffit repair. Unanimously Approved.
4. Jack Beckstrom made a motion to establish a director in charge of the committees with Mike Wilkins as first incumbent. Approved Unanimously.
5. Michael Wilkins motion: Committees shall serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors and such will report to the board the minutes of all meetings and activities. Approved Unanimously.
6. Michael Wilkins motion: Committees shall publish notices of their meetings to the membership to encourage member participation. Approved Unanimously.
7. Clayton Beck motioned to repair gutter line up to $3,500 on the main building. Approved Unanimously.
8. Jane Ellen Murray made a motion to establish a “Garden Club”. This club is looking for new members. This will be posted to the website. Approved Unanimously.
9. Quarterly meeting is set for 12/11/07.
10. Clayton Beck moved to approve new members: On-Sook Lee, Susan Sarver, Kenneth Koster Jr., Walter Monastyretsky, Maurise Thomas
11. John Philbin Dolan motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul, Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck.
1. Clayton Beck moved to approve the October minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Jane Ellen Murray moved to repair the soffits. Unanimously Approved.
4. Clayton Beck moved to approve new members: Lisa Larson-Walker, Heather Burger, Ken Crocker, Dean Williams, Luis Gonzalez, Sandra Bozer.
5. Mike Wilkins will hold a committee on committees meeting Nov 3rd, after garden clean up event. Invitation is to members to talk about general direction of each committee.
6. John Philbin Dolan motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Linda Vice, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul and Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck.
1. Jane Ellen moved to approve the August minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Dues raise will be voted on at the next quarterly meeting.
4. Building issues. The soffit repair estimate is three to four thousand dollars. This will be included in the annual appeal letter.
5. Breast Cancer Society will exhibit in 2008. Exhibition will have photography and paintings on the subject matter of breast cancer.
6. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the following new members: Richard Short, Patrick Resendiz.
7. $7,620 was granted by the state of Illinois to the Palette and Chisel.
8. Linda Vice motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Linda Vice, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul and Bill Ewers, Jan Tracy
1. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the April minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
4. Mike Wilkins made a motion to raise current dues to $400.00. Unanimously approved.
5. PAPC will merge with the P&C, Stephanie Weidner will head up this new group.
6. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the following new members: James Taylor, Chelsea Very, John Cooper, Shelia Wolfson, and J. Karl Roque.
7. Jan Tracy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Linda Vice, Michael Van Zeyl, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul and Bill Ewers
1. The Board meetings will now take place on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the April minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. The Plein Air Painters of Chicago is joining forces with the P&C. We may charge them modest dues for a newsletter, etc.
3. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted
4. Mike Wilkins made a motion to refurbish the front door. Unanimously approved.
Jane Ellen agreed to donate half of the $3,000 cost.
5. Jack Beckstrom will get someone to look into repairing the statue at the foot of the stairs on the first floor.
6. The next Board meeting will be August 14th. The next Members’ meeting will be at the end of August.
7. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the following new members: Douglas David, George Freeman, Debra Balchen and Patricia Haneline.
8. Jack Beckstrom will make a motion at the next Board meeting to raise membership dues.
9. Lenore Murphy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, April 23, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Cathy Barry, Michael Wilkins, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, Rich Morrow, David Paul, Clayton Beck, Bill Ewers and Ed Wentz as a guest.
1. Jane Ellen Murray moved to approve February minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. Bill Ewers reported we are finalizing a contract with Catena Heating & Cooling to air condition the third floor.
3. Jane Ellen Murray graciously offered to have her foundation donate the cost of air conditioning the galleries. The Board unanimously approved to accept her gift.
4. Jane Ellen reported that Leslie Baldacci of the Sun-Times will be doing a story on the P&C garden. 9 people have already volunteered to help with the clean-up.
5. Bill Ewers stated that our carpenter is working with Michael Van Zeyl to fix the broken easels.
6. The Spring Cleaning was once again a success. We had more than $11,000 in sales and raised $3,000 for the P&C.
7. Bill reported that we received a $1,000 donation from the Forstmann Foundation to be used for P&C scholarships and classes. We received notice that the City of Chicago has awarded us $5,000 a year for the next 3 years for general operating support. We recently applied for a grant from the State of Illinois as well.
8. Katherine Hempel and Min Lee were voted in as associate members and Chris Patillo as a student member.
9. Cabrini Connections, a non-profit group that teaches art to disadvantaged youth, will be exhibiting at the P&C the weekend of August 17-19
10. Lenore Murphy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Monday, February 19, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Lenore Murphy, Linda Vice, Jane Ellen Murray, Rich Morrow, Clayton Beck and Bill Ewers.
1. Jane Ellen Murray moved to approve January minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. Bill Ewers reported we have raised $9,000 to date toward the $10,000 needed to air condition the third floor.
3. Lenore Murphy moved to approve up to $10,000 for air conditioning the third floor, $9,000 of which we raised for the project. Unanimously approved.
4. Jack Beckstrom, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray and Val Yachik volunteered to be on the Outreach Committee. Jack informed the Board that Sara Miller is also willing to serve on the committee.
5. Bill Ewers reported the wine tasting was a success thanks to the efforts of Lenore Murphy and Ed Wentz.
6. The Spring Cleaning is being moved to April 14 from March 17 because of St. Patrick’s Day.
7. Jane Ellen Murray noted we need to form an advisory committee to find nominees for this summer’s election.
8. Charlotte Arnold, Anthony Mastroianni, Karen Johnson, Chris Buckley, Verena Rudolph and Vinko Lisnic were voted in as associate members.
9. Lenore Murphy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine ArtsRegular Board of Directors Meeting MinutesMonday, January 22, 2007
Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Lenore Murphy, Linda Vice, Jane Ellen Murray, Dominic Vignola, Rich Morrow, Clayton Beck and Bill Ewers.
1. Clayton Beck moved to approve December minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. 2007 Budget was approved.
3. To date, we have collected $6,095 toward the $10,000 needed to air condition the third floor.
4. The Board decided to rename the Advisory Board, and call it the Outreach Committee. The Board determined a meeting is necessary to iron out the details before contacting any potential members.
5. The mission of the exhibition committee was discussed, and it was determined that further discussion should continue at an exhibition committee meeting to be called in March/April.
6. Staff raises were discussed. The Board approved a raise for the Executive Director. Raises for the accountant and administrative assistant will be determined by the President and the Executive Director.
7. Lenore reported everything was going as planned for the wine tasting.
8. Extra promotion will be done for the upcoming children’s class including flier distribution and highlighting it on the website.
9. Sharon Williams, our interior designer, offered us a list of fellow designers to be used for marketing purposes. Bill Ewers reported he had contacted several graphic designers about providing information on company and industry newsletters so the Palette could advertise to prospective members.
10. A motion asking for free membership to American service people was tabled until the Quarterly meeting.
11. Lauren Redding and Barbra Humbert were voted in as associate members.
12. Clayton Beck motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, David Paul, Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck, John Philbin Dolan, Rich Morrow.
1. Michael Wilkins moved to approve the November minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Rich Morrow: Motioned to accept new members: Jennifer Buehn, Cela Gambetta, Angela Hardy, Danaya Zakharava. Unanimously Approved.
11. John Philbin Dolan motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul, Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck, John Philbin Dolan, Rich Morrow.
1. Michael Wilkins moved to approve the November minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Michael Wilkins moved that the Richard Schmid’s donation to go directly to the soffit repair. Unanimously Approved.
4. Jack Beckstrom made a motion to establish a director in charge of the committees with Mike Wilkins as first incumbent. Approved Unanimously.
5. Michael Wilkins motion: Committees shall serve at the discretion of the Board of Directors and such will report to the board the minutes of all meetings and activities. Approved Unanimously.
6. Michael Wilkins motion: Committees shall publish notices of their meetings to the membership to encourage member participation. Approved Unanimously.
7. Clayton Beck motioned to repair gutter line up to $3,500 on the main building. Approved Unanimously.
8. Jane Ellen Murray made a motion to establish a “Garden Club”. This club is looking for new members. This will be posted to the website. Approved Unanimously.
9. Quarterly meeting is set for 12/11/07.
10. Clayton Beck moved to approve new members: On-Sook Lee, Susan Sarver, Kenneth Koster Jr., Walter Monastyretsky, Maurise Thomas
11. John Philbin Dolan motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul, Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck.
1. Clayton Beck moved to approve the October minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Jane Ellen Murray moved to repair the soffits. Unanimously Approved.
4. Clayton Beck moved to approve new members: Lisa Larson-Walker, Heather Burger, Ken Crocker, Dean Williams, Luis Gonzalez, Sandra Bozer.
5. Mike Wilkins will hold a committee on committees meeting Nov 3rd, after garden clean up event. Invitation is to members to talk about general direction of each committee.
6. John Philbin Dolan motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Linda Vice, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul and Bill Ewers, Clayton Beck.
1. Jane Ellen moved to approve the August minutes. Unanimously Approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
3. Dues raise will be voted on at the next quarterly meeting.
4. Building issues. The soffit repair estimate is three to four thousand dollars. This will be included in the annual appeal letter.
5. Breast Cancer Society will exhibit in 2008. Exhibition will have photography and paintings on the subject matter of breast cancer.
6. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the following new members: Richard Short, Patrick Resendiz.
7. $7,620 was granted by the state of Illinois to the Palette and Chisel.
8. Linda Vice motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
________________________________________________________________________
Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Linda Vice, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul and Bill Ewers, Jan Tracy
1. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the April minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted.
4. Mike Wilkins made a motion to raise current dues to $400.00. Unanimously approved.
5. PAPC will merge with the P&C, Stephanie Weidner will head up this new group.
6. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the following new members: James Taylor, Chelsea Very, John Cooper, Shelia Wolfson, and J. Karl Roque.
7. Jan Tracy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
________________________________________________________________________
Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Michael Wilkins, Linda Vice, Michael Van Zeyl, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, David Paul and Bill Ewers
1. The Board meetings will now take place on the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the April minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. The Plein Air Painters of Chicago is joining forces with the P&C. We may charge them modest dues for a newsletter, etc.
3. The Treasurer’s Report was accepted
4. Mike Wilkins made a motion to refurbish the front door. Unanimously approved.
Jane Ellen agreed to donate half of the $3,000 cost.
5. Jack Beckstrom will get someone to look into repairing the statue at the foot of the stairs on the first floor.
6. The next Board meeting will be August 14th. The next Members’ meeting will be at the end of August.
7. Mike Wilkins moved to approve the following new members: Douglas David, George Freeman, Debra Balchen and Patricia Haneline.
8. Jack Beckstrom will make a motion at the next Board meeting to raise membership dues.
9. Lenore Murphy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Tuesday, April 23, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Cathy Barry, Michael Wilkins, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray, Rich Morrow, David Paul, Clayton Beck, Bill Ewers and Ed Wentz as a guest.
1. Jane Ellen Murray moved to approve February minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. Bill Ewers reported we are finalizing a contract with Catena Heating & Cooling to air condition the third floor.
3. Jane Ellen Murray graciously offered to have her foundation donate the cost of air conditioning the galleries. The Board unanimously approved to accept her gift.
4. Jane Ellen reported that Leslie Baldacci of the Sun-Times will be doing a story on the P&C garden. 9 people have already volunteered to help with the clean-up.
5. Bill Ewers stated that our carpenter is working with Michael Van Zeyl to fix the broken easels.
6. The Spring Cleaning was once again a success. We had more than $11,000 in sales and raised $3,000 for the P&C.
7. Bill reported that we received a $1,000 donation from the Forstmann Foundation to be used for P&C scholarships and classes. We received notice that the City of Chicago has awarded us $5,000 a year for the next 3 years for general operating support. We recently applied for a grant from the State of Illinois as well.
8. Katherine Hempel and Min Lee were voted in as associate members and Chris Patillo as a student member.
9. Cabrini Connections, a non-profit group that teaches art to disadvantaged youth, will be exhibiting at the P&C the weekend of August 17-19
10. Lenore Murphy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts
Regular Board of Directors Meeting Minutes
Monday, February 19, 2007
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Attendance: Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Lenore Murphy, Linda Vice, Jane Ellen Murray, Rich Morrow, Clayton Beck and Bill Ewers.
1. Jane Ellen Murray moved to approve January minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. Bill Ewers reported we have raised $9,000 to date toward the $10,000 needed to air condition the third floor.
3. Lenore Murphy moved to approve up to $10,000 for air conditioning the third floor, $9,000 of which we raised for the project. Unanimously approved.
4. Jack Beckstrom, Lenore Murphy, Jane Ellen Murray and Val Yachik volunteered to be on the Outreach Committee. Jack informed the Board that Sara Miller is also willing to serve on the committee.
5. Bill Ewers reported the wine tasting was a success thanks to the efforts of Lenore Murphy and Ed Wentz.
6. The Spring Cleaning is being moved to April 14 from March 17 because of St. Patrick’s Day.
7. Jane Ellen Murray noted we need to form an advisory committee to find nominees for this summer’s election.
8. Charlotte Arnold, Anthony Mastroianni, Karen Johnson, Chris Buckley, Verena Rudolph and Vinko Lisnic were voted in as associate members.
9. Lenore Murphy motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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The Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine ArtsRegular Board of Directors Meeting MinutesMonday, January 22, 2007
Val Yachik, Jack Beckstrom, Lenore Murphy, Linda Vice, Jane Ellen Murray, Dominic Vignola, Rich Morrow, Clayton Beck and Bill Ewers.
1. Clayton Beck moved to approve December minutes. Unanimously approved.
2. 2007 Budget was approved.
3. To date, we have collected $6,095 toward the $10,000 needed to air condition the third floor.
4. The Board decided to rename the Advisory Board, and call it the Outreach Committee. The Board determined a meeting is necessary to iron out the details before contacting any potential members.
5. The mission of the exhibition committee was discussed, and it was determined that further discussion should continue at an exhibition committee meeting to be called in March/April.
6. Staff raises were discussed. The Board approved a raise for the Executive Director. Raises for the accountant and administrative assistant will be determined by the President and the Executive Director.
7. Lenore reported everything was going as planned for the wine tasting.
8. Extra promotion will be done for the upcoming children’s class including flier distribution and highlighting it on the website.
9. Sharon Williams, our interior designer, offered us a list of fellow designers to be used for marketing purposes. Bill Ewers reported he had contacted several graphic designers about providing information on company and industry newsletters so the Palette could advertise to prospective members.
10. A motion asking for free membership to American service people was tabled until the Quarterly meeting.
11. Lauren Redding and Barbra Humbert were voted in as associate members.
12. Clayton Beck motioned to adjourn. Unanimously Approved.
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