Jeff asked about an admin meeting during MOTM - at this point I'm pretty much flat out arriving Monday about 6pm, DSD Tuesday, Wed/Thur Kless/Baker and Fri/Sat the event. Perhaps we can have a post-event / admin meeting Sunday around 10am though I'm not sure what everyone's flights are like.
I am proposing we tackle the outsourcing of administration for 90 Minds as follows:
a. Create a President/Vice President/Treasurer team with staggered terms - these would be rolling positions very similar to how CPA Societies have their members serve. Typically you start as Treasurer, migrate to Vice President then President. I think usually 1 or 2-year terms for each.
They type/number of admin-level people might change once you speak with AR. I'm sure they can advise. Too many and you'll never get anything done except have a lot of meetings and run up the AR bill.
I am not interested in carrying over as President so someone would move up or be appointed. Seems like we'd want the president to be for maybe a year then the VP and Treasurer move up into that slot sequentially but that can be TBD.
b. Create a board that includes the above plus whatever number of people are decided should round it out and make an odd number in total. 5 or 7 member board (including above) seems like it would be sufficient.
c.Virtually all of 90 Minds will be committee governed. Initially, it seems we'd need (a) membership and (b) events committees. I think I would start slowly with committees until the transition is further along. The last thing you want is 5 to 8 committees all doing their own thing with no common purpose.
With Association Resources or any outside management company, we are likely navigating status quo for a while. It will be difficult during the transition to make many changes. Based on member surveys I think the largest future goal is probably to interact more with publishers on behalf of members.
The future of 90 Minds is going to be determined by how well the committees work and the level of volunteerism from within the ranks.