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