LINKS TO MINUTES February 2011 Session	February 2011 Session Opened Minutes Motion 2010/11-09 Approve Guidelines/Standards Document Motion 2010/11-10 Appointment of the NWPL SC Representative Announcements: Election Committee asks for volunteers Adjournment
SESSION OPEN	1 February 2011 With this note the January meeting of the Advisory Board is adjourned, the February meeting is convened. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator
Approval of Minutes	5 February The minutes of the January 2011 session of the AB have been posted at http://usgenweb.org/business/AB-01-2011.shtml for review. If there are no corrections or objections, they will stand approved at 8:45 p.m. EST 8 February 2011. 8 February Having heard no objections, the minutes [January] stand approved. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator
Motion 2010/11-09 Approve Guidelines/Standards Document	3 February Moved by Pat Asher and seconded by Larry Flesher and dated 3 February 2011, the motion reads:  "I move that the proposed Standards/Guidelines document, which appears at http://usgenweb.org/temp-guidelines/guides/final-guidelines-format.htm, created pursuant to Motion 2009/10-15, and as amended through 28 Jan 2011 be adopted. I further move pursuant to Motion 2009/10-15, that this Standards/Guidelines document replace the CC and SC standards/guidelines documents currently in effect and titled respectively "County Guidelines" and "State Page Guidelines/Standards"."  Discussion is now open. If you have no discussion, please indicate by responding "no discussion".  Sherri Bradley National Coordinator 5 February Please vote on Motion 2010/11-09, which reads ""I move that the proposed Standards/Guidelines document, which appears at http://usgenweb.org/temp-guidelines/guides/final-guidelines-format.htm, created pursuant to Motion 2009/10-15, and as amended through 28 Jan 2011 be adopted. 8 February With 10 members voting, motion 2010/11-09, Approve the Guidelines/Standards Document passes. Those voting to approve the new Standards/Guidelines document: Ann Allen Geoghegan, Cyndie Enfinger, Dale Grimm, Denise Wells, Larry Flesher, Les Shockey, Nancy Beach, Pat Asher, Pauli Smith & Tina Vickery. Those voting to reject the new Standards/Guidelines document: None Those not voting: Alice Allen, Jeff Kemp and Linda Lewis Jeff, as webmaster, please replace the current CC Guidelines and SC Guidelines with this new document and update all internal links to point to this new document. Sherri Bradley National Coordinator 9 February For the record: With the passage of motion 2010/11-09 the Election Committee Procedures need to be updated to match the new Guidelines/Standards document. I have asked the Election Committee to review their procedures and propose changes to align them to the now current Guidelines/Standards document. Their proposed changes will be reviewed by the Advisory Board and must receive their approval before the implementation.  Sherri Bradley National Coordinator
Motion 2010/11-10 Appointment of the NWPL SC Representative	26 February Presented by Larry Flesher and seconded by Denise Wells and dated 26 February 2011, the motion reads: "I nominate Bill Oliver to be appointed as NWPL State Coordinator (SC) Representative to serve as provided by the USGenWeb Bylaws." 27 February With everyone having responded "no discussion", it is declared closed.  Please vote on Motion 2010/11-10, which reads "I nominate Bill Oliver to be appointed as NWPL State Coordinator (SC) Representative to serve as provided by the USGenWeb Bylaws."  If you agree with the motion, please respond with "agree" or "yes", if you disagree with the motion, please respond with "disagree" or "no".  Voting will continue until 1:00 pm EST 2 March 2011 unless completed prior to that time.  Sherri Bradley National Coordinator 28 February With all 13 members voting, motion 2010/11-10, Appointment of the NWPL SC Representative passes.  Those voting to approve the appointment of Bill Oliver as the NWPL SC Representative: Alice Allen, Ann Allen Geoghegan, Cyndie Enfinger, Dale Grimm, Denise Wells, Jeff Kemp, Larry Flesher, Les Shockey, Linda Lewis, Nancy Beach, Pat Asher, Pauli Smith and Tina Vickery. Those voting to reject Bill Oliver as the NWPL SC representative: none.  Those not voting: none.  The Advisory Board members listed at http://usgenweb.org/about/advisoryboard.shtml will be updated to reflect Bill's appointment.  Sherri Bradley National Coordinator With Bill's appointment to fill the NWPL State Coordinator Representative seat, I've subscribed him to the BOARD and USGENWEB-ALL mail lists. The Board-EXEC list is a confidential list. All postings to BOARD-EXEC are required to remain confidential. It is a list that we use for personnel or other similar, confidential issues such as grievance appeals. Bill, if you agree that you will honor the confidentiality of Board-Exec, please signify by responding with "Agree". If you do not feel that you can honor the confidentiality of Board Exec, please signify by responding with "Disagree". Once your response to abide by the confidentiality of the list is received, I'll subscribe you to the list. Your failure to agree to maintain the confidentiality of the BOARD-EXEC list will have no bearing on your subscription to any other Project mail list, nor will it affect your participation in any official AB business. 28 February I agree to the confidentiality of Board-Exec. Contact information follows privately. Bill Oliver
Announcement: Election Committee asks for volunteers	22 February The Election Committee is asking for volunteers to fill several positions that are available now. If you are interested, please contact any member of the EC http://usgenweb.org/usgwelections/2011-ec/2011current.htm  Thanks you, Christina Palmer usgwelections@gmail.com USGenWeb Election Committee
Adjournment	Sherri Bradley adjourned the February meeting on March 15, 2011.

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