Board Meeting Minutes May 2, 2012

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May 2, 2012

MINUTES – Board Meeting

Board Meeting:

Scholarships: Taylor Shearer was the girl winner and Dustin Goodyear was the boy. Awards issued at a school ceremony on May 31. She’d like a couple of other members there for the presentation.

High school wanted to know if the group would be continuing with the scholarship but we can’t commit until the next year’s budget is in place.

Member Actions:

1) Don from Cakes by the Lake applied for a LOA and paid annual dues. Joe will contact him to see how things are going and when he expects to return.

2) Steve K: dues not paid for 2012. George will talk to him and he’ll be removed from the website and group.

3) Proposed member Mandy Kendall sell skin care products on her website and Leticia expressed concern that it was a conflict to her business. No competition clause of the group was discussed and George will call Mandy to inform her of the board decision.

4) Proposed member Michelle Santos of Belfour Home Restoration Services: she is interested in joining but G Team had expressed concern that they are competition. The services offered by each are not the same so Paula will discuss with Gina and see if she’s still opposed.

5) It was discussed that a member shouldn’t have to defend themselves.

6) We need to seek a Web Designer /SEO for the open category. Sherri is in the club as a Graphic Designer so the web design category is open.

Minutes May 2, 2012

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May 2, 2012

MINUTES – General Meeting

General Meeting:

Attendance: George Sariego, Paula Peterson, Joe Zarachoff, Carol Daum, Sherri Hughes, Linda Wilkens, Leticia Hansen, Scot Hansen, Kae Reed, Dan Spano, Doug Rousse, Don Elston, Robert Klemer, guests Mandy Kendall and Anik Dean

Speaker of the Day: George Sariego, Tahoe Computer Solutions

He’s been in Tahoe for 5 years. Originally from Miami, he’s Cuban-American. 12 years ago he moved to Costa Rica, met a woman, lived there for 6 years, came to Tahoe via Miami after having kids. He owned a video game store in Tahoe, got broken into more than once so got into computer repair and networks. Works out of his home but travels and picks up and delivers computers at no extra charge for LTBRN members. Low prices, excellent and special services are offered by TCS. He custom builds computers, servers, installs networks, printers, helps MAC and PCs work well together, data back up and recovery and remote repair. Free tech advice via email!

Cloud Favorites: Sky drive, box.com, drop box, google drive. Skydrive is free storage up to 25gb. You sign in, upload, shaer and encrypt. Also a document reader and Microsoft office. Box.com has 50gb free storage but can’t sync with folders on your computer. Drop box is his favorite. 5 gb free for free, free synchronization, can sync outlook, get 500 mb for free per person if you get others to sign up..up to 16 MB of storage. Drop box and google drive are cool services-have apps for phone, photos, documents.

Joe commented that he is happy with sugar sync as his cloud service. It keeps documents on all computers synced and alike.

All is safe to use!

Business of the Week: Dr. Kahn

Announcements/Business News:

Mother’s Day present from Massage at Tahoe: 90 minute massage for $80 instead of $120.

Dan launched a new website for Paradise Real Estate. He let everyone know how the Lake Tahoe real estate market is exploding…he’s excited about the market and the website. Read the Sacramento Bee’s article about 2^nd home owners flocking to Tahoe.

Scot is very excited about his new website too.

Robert said that if you’re looking at purchasing a vehicle that trade in values are at an all time high, the highest that he’s seen in 25 years. SUV and Trucks have 0% financing. For Mother’s Day he has jewelry specials so don’t forget mom!

George updated the group on a local attorney putting together a class action lawsuit against AT&T for those who’ve experienced cell phone theft. They want AT&T to block the stolen phones so they can’t be used.

Missing members….haven’t seen David Smith or Steve Kolesnik lately

Today is a board meeting…all members are welcom

Minutes April 25, 2012

Tuesday, 08 May 2012 23:39

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April 25, 2012

MINUTES – General Meeting

Attendance: George Sariego, Donna Russell, Larry Marlowe, Paula Peterson, Joe Zarachoff, Carol Daum, Sherri Hughes, France Carreau, Linda Wilkens, Leticia Hansen, Scot Hansen, Maggie Wattle, Brian Cohen, guest Mandy Kendall.

Speaker of the Day: Donna Russell, South Shore Glass

Donna says Steve is always at the office since they open at 8 am so she is able to attend meetings, or Tim comes to represent them.

They’ve been in business for 40 years! Her father-in-law Bill opened the shop and sold it to his sons, and now just Steve and Donna run it. They do repairs, sell glass, windows, doors , parts and green cleaning supplies which she shared with everyone at the meeting. They have a full time staff of installers to take care of all your window, door and glass needs.

South Shore Glass is in the process of remodeling their showroom and ready to celebrate their 40^th Anniversary. They rented out space in the back of their shop to Southwest Gas so expect more foot traffic.

Scot says they epitomize what LTBRN is all about with their professionalism and ethics.

Business of the Week: Design Scapes

Announcements:

George glad to be back and catching up with everything.

Scot and Leticia went to the TRYP Easter Egg hunt and said iw as fun.

Linda reminded all that it’s Administrative Assistant Day.

Brian has new Alaskan King Salmon and Halibut in. Bought a new grinder so it will give him extra time every day.

George’s mother board fried so he reminded all to back up their info on computers! Next week he’ll talk about cloud services and google drive.

Business News:

Mandy invited by Brandi. She was a chiropractor in England, saw the huge benefit of natural health therapy. She has started the Health Connective, a coalition that connects people with resources and doctors. She sells supplements which are isotonic, highly effective. She’ll evaluate and use what targets your body, dna and lifestyle.

Anne Carlson was a guest of Paula and potential new member. She is a life coach, food psychologist.

Potential new member: Anik Dean with Anik’s Books, a bookkeeping service.

Scholarship committee needs another committee member to read applications by April 30. Awards night is the end of May. We’ll put a picture in the news and facebook. Criteria is 1 boy and 1 girl with a GPA between 3.0 and 4.0 who want to go into business or parents are in business.

Thank yous:

Joe thanked scot and Leticia for a referral and Dan and Jana for a referral.

Scot thanked Sherri for his website – modern, nice looking and appreciated her level of professionalism.

Larry thanks Scot for his rack card purchase. Thanked Linda for her business as well.