<div dir="ltr"><div>Can someone give me a brief list of the things that we pay the SFC to do for us? <br><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Terran McCanna <br>PINES Program Manager <br>Georgia Public Library Service <br>1800 Century Place, Suite 150 <br>Atlanta, GA 30345 <br>404-235-7138 <br><a href="mailto:tmccanna@georgialibraries.org" target="_blank">tmccanna@georgialibraries.org</a> <br><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Gagnon, Ron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gagnon@noblenet.org" target="_blank">gagnon@noblenet.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Grace and all,<br></div>Personally I was appalled that the SFC admitted they have to add pennies to keep track of payments to their interns! Though I don't have a better alternative service to offer, I have serious concerns about them holding our money.<br><br></div>Having been on the Massachusetts conference committee a few years ago, I feel that finding sponsors and vendors to underwrite the conference was one of the more difficult things, if only because it's something we never have to. I know this was touched on today and progress is being made on some continuity, and that is good news.<br><br></div>Ron<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 3:38 PM, Grace Dunbar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gdunbar@esilibrary.com" target="_blank">gdunbar@esilibrary.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div>I'm including a quick recap of takeaways from the SFC/EOB meeting today.</div><div>If anyone wants to chat about any of these at tomorrow's meeting, please let me know and I'll add it to the agenda specifically.</div><div><br></div><div>*SFC pointed out that they would be happy to transition us elsewhere if we weren't happy.</div><div>*SFC reminded us that we can hire an outside firm to manage the conference.</div><div>*SFC recently hired another person - 50% of his time will be dedicated to the accounting software project.</div><div>*Member mailing lists are now monitored.</div><div>*Communication issues were discussed. The SFC provided more methods for getting in touch with them. However issues of long (or no) response times for emails was not satisfactorily resolved.</div><div>*Conference issues were discussed. The two top issues for the SFC were communication/consistency and invoicing. Invoicing is a very real issue and something the EOB conference committee should discuss to determine what can be done to mitigate invoicing individuals for registrations.</div><div>*Communication and consistency year-to-year for the conference was discussed at length. </div><div><br></div><div>I have quite a bit of knowledge of the conference issues since prior to the SFC, Equinox performed the fiduciary duties to the Evergreen community pro bono. Equinox signed the contracts with the venues, received money, wrote the checks, balanced the ledger, etc. When Evergreen moved to the SFC, Equinox transferred those funds and that responsibility - however at that point I began serving on the conference committees and have been witness to every conference.</div><div><br></div><div>My personal view is that of some of the reasons we're having trouble is that the SFC projects up to that point didn't know how to run their own conferences. Therefore, the SFC was used to stepping in and handling it. When they attempted that with our group there was some friction because we have very capable people and our local committees have great local connections. Our conferences are unique.</div><div><br></div><div>Because of this friction, our overall high level of competence, and other factors, the SFC gave us perhaps more control over the conferences than other member projects... but the expectations on both sides weren't clearly defined which has led us to where we are now. I think we're all making good progress though, and this call was a step in the right direction to get everyone's thoughts and needs out in the open.</div><div><br></div><div>Lastly, I still have concerns about the accounting practices and software.</div><div>I asked Galen to run the ledger for tomorrow's EOB meeting and it appears that the NC check from the conference is *still* not in our ledger. </div><div><a href="https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=governance:financials:update_2016_09_21" target="_blank">https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org<wbr>/doku.php?id=governance:financ<wbr>ials:update_2016_09_21</a><br></div><div>I feel that there are problems with both the structure of the software and the workflow process.</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>Grace</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Sharon Herbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sharon.herbert@bc.libraries.coop" target="_blank">sharon.herbert@bc.libraries.c<wbr>oop</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Grace,<br>
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I've added a few more potential grant opportunities to the spreadsheet that Kathy sent me - IMLS and Mellon grants look promising, but as we don't have access to these in Canada, board members may know more about the process and 501(3)(c) requirment, etc.<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/132a10eZE7SOssSs_LdbZ7JuY1u089h18FR2LhxxoVlg/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spread<wbr>sheets/d/132a10eZE7SOssSs_LdbZ<wbr>7JuY1u089h18FR2LhxxoVlg/edit?u<wbr>sp=sharing</a><br>
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We can defer discussion on this until the next meeting if time is an issue; the agenda is pretty full already.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Sharon<br>
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Please let me know if there's anything I've missed for the agenda tomorrow.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
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