Van Nuys California Postal Customer Council

Postal CO-Chair, Joel Smith
Industry CO-Chair, Luis Navas

Van Nuys PCC Board Meeting Minutes

October 16th, 2008

Attendee’s:     James Licano, ,  Chris Garcia, Bob Belz, Jacques Soriano, Sharon Belz, Yonda Davis, Mario Arredondo, Marc Cohen, Tracy Parry,  Laura Landgraf, Kelly Lobo, Steve Vodden, Andre Pittaluga, Luis Navas, Joel Smith, Sean Hartswick, Mike A. Madrigil,

Teleconference Meeting – No minutes were taken. Next teleconferences we will make sure minutes are mandatory.

Treasure Report – Jacques Soriano reported treasure report to be good.
Bob Belz, Sharon Belz approves treasure report.

Distributions for Board – Meeting Agenda, PCC Newsletter, PCC pins

Update Website – Luis Navas will update November event October 16th, 2008.

Event Planning Sheet – November 13th, 2008 11:00 am at Castaway’s in Burbank. Tracy Parry will email duties to the board. Buffet lunch for $25 was for 50 needed to hold and approximately 70 attendees are projected. Event theme will be “FALL”. Kelly Lobo was designated $150.00 for decorations. Kandy Giblin will be the speaker at the event. Make sure we have a least 90 handouts for the event.

Committee Updates – Continue planning with your committee and each team leader will report their progress at each Board meeting.

Marketing – More pictures in website and newsletter

Member Management – Member application will be reviewed by Kelly Lobo and committee.
Website update to include member application to develop and increase membership to PCC.
Yonda Davis will email Mike A. Madrigil zip code ranges to promote PCC in Pasadena, Glendale area.

Educational – Rate case and MQC April 09

Nomination – Area VP of Operations needed to be involved with PCC event to have Mike Daly attend before June.

2009 Calendar -  February educational,  MQC’s  March,  Rate Case April, June BBQ, July Bay Cruise, Sept PCC Day, October BBQ, November educational event, all events will be scheduled on the third Thursday of each month, Luis Navas will check to see when other area PCC’s are having their events.

December 11th Holiday Luncheon at Picanhas in Burbank at 11:30. Event was mentioned in the newsletter being December 5th, 2008. Event will be for board members only.

Van Nuys MVP Nomination – Joel Smith and Luis Navas will review criteria and email to the board for the nominations
$150.00 was approved by the board to spend on presentation. Mike A. Madrigil and Kelly Lobo made motions to approve and it was approved by the board for the expenditure.

Board member shirts Name Badge by IPC and Van Nuys PCC Pins
Jacques Soriano will check online for lady shirts. Dress shirts will be a light blue as seen on the PCC logo the middle “C”. Liz Bishop will provide the name badges for the board. The Van Nuys PCC clapper was voted to use for the PCC.

Open Forum

Jon Larsen was voted in as new member.
Bob Belz asked about the MSP program and how we as a PCC are using it for our website or other areas of advertising.
MMP Direct was questioned on the large advertisement in the news letter, we may need to review.
Mario Arredondo requested more member recognition as new members and add other vendor recognition when donations or sponships are done.

Minutes Written by James Licano
Van Nuys PCC Secretary