2nd Meeting recap: April 8th

Greater La Crosse NOW

April 8, 2009

Minutes

Members in Attendance: Ali Toetz, Chloe Miller Hansen, Betsy Gleiss Kaftan, Andrea Hansen, Heather Jett, Rebecca Toetz, Susan Crutchfield

Visitors: Ben Crutchfield and Sara Miller Hansen

1. We talked about what we want our function to be and a couple ideas we came up with are: Finding out more about the Battered Women's Shelter, Sparta's resources for women; the female only clinic; responding to State Legislation alerts; and issues that come up in the media

2. Alison and Chloe will be taking care of the electronic stuff, including the website, blogs, and potential use of YouTube to spread the word about NOW and women’s issues

3. We reviewed the suggested revisions for the La Crosse Chapter By-laws. The following changes were offered:

(list the changes by the articles – for example…Article X specify 10 days.; Article XI specifies 10 days)

Susan made a motion to adopt the revised by-laws with the changes. Heather seconded the motion. Motion carried.

4. Nominations for the officers were taken for the 2009 term. Heather offered the following motion:

Chloe Miller Hansen-President

Alison Toetz-VicePresident

Rebecca Toetz-Treasurer

Susan seconded the motion. Motion carried.

5. We planned for our next meeting to be May 6^th. (Update to minutes: the 3-Rivers house has a meeting that day so it is tentatively scheduled for Monday, May 4^th if members can attend).

6. For our next meeting we will bring a couple movies to preview and plan our "We're here" event.

Submitted by:

Chloe Miller Hansen, President