We've got a name! We've got officers!

Alright, it's true. We've got a name. We've got officers. Here's the scoop which is also in the minutes but it deserves it's own post.

The Name:
Bay Area Sustainable Investment Club- BASIC

The Officers:
President: Seth
Vice President: Tiffiny
Treasurer: Missy
Secretary: Wendy
Officers will hold these positions for a six month duration starting in January.

Next meeting in the new year is Sunday January 14th at 6PM. Notice that we are starting an hour earlier! Be there!

Minutes 12/10/06

December 10th

Investment Club Notes:

Club Name!
Bay Area Sustainable Investment Club- BASIC

Officers: for 6 Month Term
President: Seth Lepore
Vice President: Tiffany
Treasurer: Missy
Secretary: Wendy

Initial Start-up Costs: $109
-Includes DBA
-run in paper for 4 weeks
-Business Lic, taxes and Zoning
-Tax ID number (Seth?)

Licesensing Options:
LLC, INC, Corporation, LLP,
- Seth is researching which of these is the most appropriate
- Tracy is looking into hosting BASIC under her LLC in Wisconsin

Screens:
-Education on issues is Important
-We may have to put our money in one mutual fund that we can get into even if we don’t have screens solidified.
- Bring in Tim Rich from Progressive Asset Management to talk with us in the second week in January, which will help us understand screens.

Treasurer:
-We need a record keeping system for when we pay $20 monthly dues. Possibly a receipt book or check sheet.

Timing of meeting:
Change to 6pm!

Attendendees tonight
Sharon
Evan
Kate
Tracy
Stephanie
Wendy
Johanna
Tiffany
Kenny

Next Meeting: Second Sunday in January (January 14th 2007) at 6PM

Tasks:
Tracy- LLC
Seth- Talk to Howie, LLP vs, LLC
Tiffany- Talk to Ted, CPA any questions about business start up

Additional Agenda for next meeting:
Talking about what kind of committees we want

Agenda for Dec. 10th (so far)

-Establish a working name.
-Establish officers. Speak in more detail about roles.
-Discuss intial start up costs. (biz license, etc.)
-Discuss best way to deal with social screens using the blog.
-Possible guest speaker for Feb.
-Discuss educational components. What do people want to learn about?
-Looking forward. What the first three months of the club look like, for both meetings and virtually.

Choosing/ Voting on Officers

Officers:
You know you want to run... If you want to hold one of these positions please post and we will vote at the next meeting. We will also vote on how long we will hold positions for (we talked about six months):

President
VP
Treasurer
Secretary

Choosing a name for the club

Here's the ideas for names. We have to finanlize a decision by the next meeting to go forward with all the legal aspects. Choose your favorite or add another idea. Blog it up!

Wicked Rich of the West Investment Club
East Bay Investment Club
Polywog Investment club
Bay Area 20
Rich Green Investment Club
Appleseed Investment Group
Trustafarian
Think First Investment Club
East Pay Investment club (EPIC)
Long Term
Above Average
Bay Area Socially Responsible Investment Club
Conscious and Evovled investment Club
Bay Area SRI Club
007 SRI Club

Welcome to the blog

Well, hopefully you all got an email inviting you to the blog. I am also going to send out the info to get onto the blog through the way I set it up if you want to post anonymously. This should be interesting. I will post a few things we need to take start discussing in virtual land before the next meeting. Each post you can comment on, like choosing a name for the group. Remember next meeting is on Sunday Dec. 10th at 7PM.

See you then

-Seth