Thursday, March 4, 2010

February Meeting Minutes

Jefferson County Entrepreneurial Advisory Team (JCEAT) 
February 22, 2010
5:15 P.M.
Hillsboro City Hall 
Meeting Minutes 
Members Present:  B.J. Eavy, Mary Ann Gebhardt, Phil Gebhardt, Gery Marmaduke, David McKinney, Gene Roth, Melissa Scheer, and Shirley Williams.
The meeting opened with discussion about the Dream Workshop, since Melissa needed to attend another meeting.  Melissa & Gery reported on the meeting with Ms. Durrwachter:
    • There will be 5 groups of 6 students
    • The teams will be created by Ms. Durrwachter from her entrepreneurial class, then everyone else from other groups who participate will be dispersed into the groups when the time is appropriate.
    • 2 students who took the workshop before are in her class, but they will be used as a banker, tallying scores, or selling supplies, rather than them going through the class again as a student.
    • On Friday, April 30th the workshop will be between about 8 and 1:30 p.m.
    • Melissa Scheer & Gery Marmaduke will be facilitators for the workshop.
    • Venue is the Viking Room at Jefferson College as in the past.
    • Chuck Banks, County Executive, will be the workshop opening speaker.  JCEAT will tell the students who Chuck Banks is and what he does before the time when Chuck speaks.
    • It is hoped that the leaders of the 7 FBLA areas in our region will be interested in coming to this Dream Workshop, so they can see what it is all about and perhaps think about taking the program to other schools.
    • On Tuesday, April 27th at 7:35 a.m. - Unit 1 & part of Unit 2 will be taught in Ms. Durrwachter’s classroom at Hillsboro High School to allow more time during the workshop. 
    • On Thursday, April 29th at 7:35 a.m. – Unit 2 & 3 will be taught in Ms Durrwachter’s classroom at Hillsboro High School to allow more time during the workshop.
    • Ms. Durrwachter will talk with the bus people to be sure we can keep the students until about 1:45 on the workshop day.
    • We will need between 8 – 10 volunteers for the April 30th workshop day.  David McKinney and Paul Klossner are the Volunteer Coordinators.
    • The coordinators for securing donated prizes for the workshop are Mary Ann & Shirley, with Debbie as a resource.  Debbie has the list of people who donated last time.
    • Debbie secured some funding last time in case there are some things we need that are not donated.  BJ has the remaining $205 of that money, so let her know if it is needed. 
    • David is willing to help whoever is doing the taping of the floor, because he has experience from last time J.
    • Greg Tucker is checking to see if he can pay for lunch as in the past.
The ACE Team Project was discussed with the ultimate outcome being that hopefully someday Jefferson College will implement this program into their curriculum for thorough coverage in Jefferson County of the things needed to support and train entrepreneurs.
Meanwhile, we have the pilot ACE Team that still meets monthly and hopes to continue doing that.  They have some issues they would like presented at their meetings, one of which is Taxes.  JCEAT discussed this for a while and the conclusion was that they really don’t need a CPA, Tax Consultant, or Lawyer to talk with them, rather just having this conversation might help.  Those JCEAT members who can do it will be at the ACE Team meeting on Thursday, February 25th to have this discussion about taxes.  It seems they are making it harder for themselves than it needs to be. 
JCEAT will also be trying to identify entrepreneurs to form a new ACE Team as soon as possible.  They may or may not eventually combine with the original team.
Web Site - One Stop Reference Source for Entrepreneurs – there will be a meeting with the JCGDA on March 4th at 1 p.m. at the County Executive meeting room to discuss working together on this project.  JCGDA is also talking about a website for entrepreneurs and there is no sense in having two.  Brenda King has already been working on the one for us and will be housing it on the JOIN-N site with links to whatever we need.  We will report on this meeting at the next JCEAT meeting, or by email if there is something urgent to let you know.
The next meeting of JCEAT will be at the Hillsboro City Hall on March 22, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.  Please try to attend as your support is greatly needed.
The meeting adjourned at 6:40 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted by:     B.J. Eavy, Assistant to the Secretary

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