NCIFT MEETING MINUTES

Meeting Minutes August 28, 2020

Executive Committee 2019-2020:

• Craig Rothe-President
• Jaspreet Walia-President Elect
• Nikoo Arasteh-Past President
• Abigail Selya-Secretary
• Erin Evers-Membership
• Bruce Ferree-Symposium Chair
• Mike McCarthy-IFT

Location: Virtual Meeting via Zoom

Time:  Start- 4:04PM  Adjourn: 4:58 PM

Attendees: Abigail Selya, Bruce Ferree, Jeff Sheasley, Nikoo Arasteh, Anjali Ganpule, Erin Evers, Elaine Chow,  Myhan Nguyen (UCD IFT Representative), Craig Rothe, Terri Amerio-Bell, Mike McCarthay, Jaspreet Walia, Parastoo Yaghmaee 

Agenda

• State of the Section Report
  • 782 members YTD down from 815 at the start of Fiscal Year, 30 members have transferred out. 79.16% Continuing Members 20.84% New Members
• Financial Report-Terri
  • Expo & Golf Financial-Bruce-
    • $47,500 in income, $10,875 dollars sent as refunds still working to refund or defer money to the other companies. Preference is to have a deferral. Reaching out to Key Contact and will be looking for alternative contacts if we are not able to reach out to them. 
    • $15,753 spent refunds have allowed us to salvage 13,388 for a future 2021 event. All in we are out $2,365.60.
  • All bills are paid so far
  • Suppliers night deferrals will have a record so that the money will be kept for the next Suppliers Night event.

• Director at Large – Craig is requesting the board adopt a newly-created position of Dir. At Large for Western NV to establish a point of contact there.  Also requesting sole candidate Jeff Sheasley of Elite Spice be nominated and approved.
  • Jeff will be put into the Director at Large vacancy once confirmed by appointment from our President (Craig), and will continue on for the following year. 

Create a Director at Large Position in Nevada, Board – (6 yes, 0 No)

• Elections discussion- We will have an election in Late June/Early July to have people in place before Sept 1 Fiscal year start date. Post open positions and timeline for when positions will be nominated and appointed. 
• Event planning
  • Networking events-looking for suggestions (not hard dates) for themes, and locations; both venues and to cover our geography (Sacramento, Santa Rosa, etc.) Have a National Food Lab potential virtual event
  • July National Meeting-idea to broadcast this at a local venue if open
  • We committed to doing 4 events in Reno per year
  • Educational events-Ideas for events at various venues, Mattson quarterly events will still be happening once it is safe to socially gather, as well as virtual events/webcasts
  • Approval requested for educational budget
  • New Professionals schedule-Erin
  • Survey launched soon via Ashwini, probing perceived needs and interests
  • Lecture Series Jas will pass on topics from Certified Labs that could be shared with NCIFT.
• Ambassador Program-Could we implement this year?  We don’t have a plan yet to implement but is a priority to organize
• IFT Connect & Section Leader Resources – will send out position descriptions again and bi-laws to review and refresh on
• Member of the Year Award nominees needed- Marty and Erin Nominated for 2019 and 2020 recipients.
• IFT-related dates and deadlines
  • August 15-Section Roster
  • August 31-Annual Report Due
  • Date TBD-Virtual Volunteer Leadership Summit
  • October 31-Financial Report

-Section leader webcast Thursday 4/31 available for virtual training and webinar -link to be sent post call