• review of last year's action items (if there are items arising from this review to add to the meeting agenda, this would be the point to identify those)
• circulate reports: financial, membership, jobs, web, MLA, Humanist, DHQ, LLC
• EC members review minutes from last year (summer and winter)
• new EC members review the bylaws if they haven't already

Meeting starts at 9:30 in HU206. 1. Procedural (30 minutes)

• approval of the minutes from previous meeting (summer and winter)
• approval of the agenda

2. Committee appointments (45 minutes)

• bursaries (Treasurer ex officio plus 2 others)
• nominations (4 people)
• jobs (flexible; confirm the chair and recruit volunteers)
• Busa/other award committees (2 people? incumbents are Julia Flanders and John Unsworth)
• ADHO steering committee rep (1 person; incumbent is Chuck Bush)
• ADHO multilingualism committee rep (1 person)
• program committee for the 2010 conference (3 people)

4. Strategic planning

• Membership (1 hour)
• Publications (DHQ, Humanist, ACH web, LLC) (1 hour)
• Lunch (45 minutes)
• Jobs/mentoring (1 hour)
• New projects (30 minutes): briefly identify projects for the coming year, to be taken up in more detail in email discussion. Identify a person who will sponsor or take the lead on each project.

5. Business (1.5 hours)

• Financial report and review of specific budget allocations from last year (e.g. towards bursaries, committees, etc.).
  • Report how and whether allocations were actually spent
  • Reconfirm expenditures for the current year
  • Make any new allocations
• Report from the ADHO rep, and discussion of any questions or issues that come to us from the ADHO steering commmittee

6. Visits/informational (1 hour; these are scheduled in as convenient)

• presentation from next year's conference organizer
• presentation from this year's conference organizer

-- Main.JuliaFlanders - 09 Jun 2008