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Pocono Avian Research Center Board of Directors Meeting December 31, 2018- ONLINE 1. Call to order 2. Accounts balanced at $21606.91 with accounts receivable outstanding in the amount of $346. If anyone has any questions concerning the budget, please ask. 3. Minutes: In the past meeting, we approved all minutes from past meetings, and began a discussion about the upcoming programs at Kettle Creek. Diane contributed an article about the Audubon Center in Philadelphia. We should plan a trip in the coming year. Please take a moment to VOTE to approve minutes from August 27, 2018 4. Director Report: Happy New Year!!! We have enjoyed our first year in the office at Kettle Creek. We received a second desk from Lisa, and have to reorganize the space for the New Year. When more than one person is working, it can get tight using the tables available in the prep room, and we also saw ourselves squeezed in during the owl banding when the building was filled with other meetings. It is an exciting start! We still need to better promote our events, so that we can help support the organizations that invited us. Please repost any events you see on facebook, and we have added a calendar to the website for people to view the events that are upcoming. We could use any additional ideas on how to market these types of events to increase attendance. Finally, we need 3 additional board members for our organization. Would anyone like to work on nominations for additional board members? I will head the committee in 2019. 5. Education report: We continue to do monthly programs with the Brodhead Watershed Association water wiser kids program. Additionally, we have been invited to participate in the programming for Kettle Creek in the start of 2019. All of these are in addition to the one-day community events and other birding programs we do. Bekah has created a calendar on the website. Take a look! 6. Research report: Our research season ended with a still more rain in November. We had 85 new northern saw whet owls, 2 foreign recaptures, and 1 barred owl to start the season. Our intern, Alissa, will be invited to the annual meeting in January. Bekah and Steven are banding for the winter feeder fidelity project. We will try to create a report on the research by then of the winter. 7. New Business: I hope everyone is registered to join us for the annual dinner on JANUARY 27, 2019 from 1-4 pm, at the Stroudsmoor. I would like to hold a short (15 mins) meeting prior to the event. Please let me know if you can meet at 12:30 pm 8. Meeting adjourned
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Pocono Avian Research Center Board of Directors Meeting August 27, 2018- ONLINE
We have also been invited to do a number of events in the community. One thing that we need is to better promote these events, so that we can help support the organizations that invited us and get more people out to learn about them. Lisa is doing a great job of posting to Facebook, so if you see it and could repost these events it would be great. Also, we could use any additional ideas on how to market these types of events to increase attendance. Finally, we need additional board members for our organization. Would anyone like to work on nominations for additional board members? 5. Education report: we completed a lot of great programs this summer. We did three science programs for the Barrett Friendly Library for the summer program. We have also been invited to do monthly programs for The Nature Conservancy in Long Pond, and finally we have been invited to do monthly programs with the Brodhead Watershed Association water wiser kids program. All of these are in addition to the one-day community events and other birding programs we do. 6. Research report: Our research season ended with a rainy day in August. The season had a lot of schedule problems, but the interns Ty, Gabe, and Luc, held it together and really gave us as much help as they could. We were joined at the end of the season by Stephanie Augustine who is a graduate of Cedar Crest College and is looking for seasonal work in the field. We were grateful for her help. As usual, we provided several research related programs for the Kettle Creek day camp and conservation camp. In the fall, we are getting ready for Owl banding season, and we have schedule education programs on Friday nights in October and November. Come out and join us any night. 7. New Business: Please let me know if there is any new business to discuss. 8. Meeting adjourned Board Meeting February 4, 2018 AGENDA
Pocono Avian Research Center Board of Directors Meeting February 4, 2017- ONLINE 1. Call to order 2. Accounts balanced at $16,039.73 with 1108 in accounts receivable 3. Minutes: minutes for the board meeting on October 10, 2017 will be available for a vote in the next meeting. 4. Please take a look at the end of the year budget numbers from 2017 (attached). I appreciate any questions you may have. 5. VOTE: Please look at the budget projections for 2018 (attached). We need a Motion to approve the budget for fiscal year 2018. A second on the motion. And your vote. Please enter your votes on the website at http://www.poconoavianresearch.org/board-of-directors.html, scroll down for the meeting button and enter the password: PARC8620 6. VOTE: Please vote to reinstate the following slate of directors for 2018 (abstaining from the vote for yourself). Darryl Speicher president Lisa Schreffler secretary/treasurer Mildred Bernstein board member John Leiser board member Diane Wong board member Jackie Speicher, Director 7. Following our discussion of payment for the summer research season, Rebekah Snyder left the board to become the paid biologist for 2017. Bekah has now finished her Bachelor of Science degree and is looking for work experience in the field. While she is still in eastern PA, we would like to hire her as a contract employee starting in 2018. We are looking for your input as to the contents and formatting of the contract. Please submit all comments on the website. At present the contract will consist of a salary of $10/hour which will be monitored by the Director. Bekah will complete a weekly report of hours, and be paid on a bimonthly basis. There will be no withholding from this salary. Requirements: The contract employee will be responsible for:
PARC purchased the swipe square reader so that we can now take credit cards directly using the phone. I have downloaded the app on my phone. Please let me know if you would like to have a square reader and I will connect you to the app download. The purchase price of the original square reader was reimbursed, and they have sent a second one for our use. There were 30 people registered for this year's dinner event (28 in attendance). Two of our interns from 2017, Lee Schuler (spring 17) and Dakota Hettel (MAPS 17), were in attendance. I enjoyed seeing everyone at the Stroudsmoor this weekend. 9. New Business: 10. Meeting adjourned Pocono Avian Research Center
Board of Directors Meeting June 6, 2017- ONLINE
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Pocono Avian Research Center Board of Directors Meeting February 3, 2017- ONLINE
Minutes
Meeting on October 16, 2016 Pocono Avian Research Center Board of Directors Meeting Billy's Pocono Diner, Tannersville, PA Present: Darryl Speicher, Jackie Speicher, Mildred Bernstein, Lisa Schreffler, John Leiser Absent: Diane Wong, John Styk Guest: Rebekah Snyder
MINUTES for meeting on May 15, 2016
Pocono Avian Research Center Board of Directors Meeting May 15, 2016 - ONLINE
From Mildred: Keep up the wonderful work! From Lisa: Looks great. Congrats to the interns for presenting the research! I am looking forward to helping with some grant writing and banding this summer. 10. Meeting adjourned AGENDA for meeting on July 7, 2016
Pocono Avian Research Center Board of Directors Meeting July 7, 2016 - ONLINE
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Board of Directors Meeting May 15, 2016 - ONLINE
Pocono Avian Research Center
Board of Directors Meeting January 19, 2016 - ONLINE Present: Darryl Speicher, Jackie Speicher, Mildred Bernstein, Lisa Schreffler, Diane Wong Absent: John Leiser, John Styk
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