Title: IPMSUSA 2003 Business Meeting July 3, 2003 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1IPMS/USA2003 Business MeetingJuly 3,
2003Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Dave Morrissette
- President, IPMS/USA
2Whos Who on the Current E-Board?
3Regional Coordinators Organization
4Membership and ChapterStatus
5Membership Trends
6Membership Trends
7Membership Demographics
8Chartered Chapter Trends
9Chartered Chapter Locations
10Chartered Chapter Lost
- Dropped Chapters- Chapter contact didnt contact
us/ didnt renew - IPMS Florida, Speedway, Hawaii, Ventura County,
DAMS, Glue Brothers, Tri-City, Lafayette
Miniature Car, William T. Sherman, Watertown
11New Chartered Chapter
- IPMS/Tulsa Modelers Forum
- IPMS/Miami International Modelers Assoc.
- IPMS/San Juan
- IPMS/Central Carolina
- IPMS/Maryland Automotive Modelers Assoc.
- IPMS/Long Island Auto Replica Society (LIARS)
12IPMS Make and Take Program
13Chapter Support of the Make and Take
- IPMS and the Make and Take Program say Thanks!
for you generous donations to - IPMS Delaware Valley, Winston Salem, Oklahoma
Historical, Anchorage, Three Rivers, Syracuse,
Pensacola, Butch OHare, Ft. Crook, Manatee,
Craig Hewitt, Rocky Mountain, LAIRS, Front Range,
JG-85, NCT, Sioux Area, Blue-Grey, Wings Wheels
and Keels, Huntsville, Will Cook, Boise,
Richmond, Roscoe Turner, Galveston, Robert Scott,
Granite State, Fremont, OHMS, Long Island,
Northern Va, South Metro, GTR, MassCar, Santa
Rosa, Lakes Region, Champlain Valley, Orlando,
Emerald City , John Glenn, Richard Bong,
Techmages, Chatahoochie, First Coast, Mad City,
Rochester, NorthShore, Mid-Michigan, Polish Coast
watchers, Mid Carolina, NEPA, Niagara Frontier,
Kalamazoo, Fame Cities, Memphis, Dayton, and
Eddie Rickenbacker
14Make and Take Program
- Make and Take Account currently at 900 even with
donations - Current fiscal year, IPMS/USA spent 2900 on MT
- Testors has donated many kits to the Make and
Take including 400 kits on an emergency basis to
IPMS Dayton for a Boy Scout Jamboree. Testors
shipped them at there own expense so they could
be there on time. There are still over 3000 kits
left
15Chapter Support of the Make and Take
- IPMS Niagara Frontier, after a successful Region
1 convention issued the following challenge to
all chapters - Our members proposed that we share an additional
200.00 towards the program, if you can raise a
total of 2000.00 (including our 300.00) this
year from other clubs. We view this as an open
challenge to other clubs to participate. We
strongly believe in the "Make Take" program
serves an important introduction to this hobby,
with a big side benefit of promoting parental
involvement. - Dick Schulenberg, Treasurer Niagara Frontier
Chapter IPMS"
16IPMS Financial Status
17Financial Status
(Balances as of 6/15)
18Where do your IPMS membership dues go?
19Insurance Costs
- Have increased drastically since 9/11
- Premiums rose over 37
- Breakdown
- Liability is 10,100
- Convention is 1400
- D O is 990
- Bonding treasurer is 90
20Insurance Costs Chart
212002-2003 In Review
222003 Internet Updatewww.IPMSUSA.org
- Completely redesigned pages added in late 2002
- Upgraded of the Site to a higher level hosting
plan - Added a Discussion Forum for IPMS members only
- Added an on-line review section
- Conducted the Online build of the Academy F-18
- Conducting a member survey
- Conducting Constitutional Amendment Vote
- E-board minutes posted on-line
- Doing live Nationals updates as we speak
23Website Hit Count
Amendment Voting
AC Report Issued
Aircraft Survey Posted
Mass E-mailing
Forum Opens
24Industry News and The Reviewer Corps
- Started profiles of Manufacturers in the Journal
- Working with MRC/Academy, did an on-line review
of the 1/32 F-18. - Program in place to put flyers in shipments from
- Archer Fine Transfers, Bisconti Company, Cobra
Company, Cottage Industry Models, Green Mountain
Company, Rustall, Meteor Productions,
MRC/Academy, Pacific Aero Press, Real Space
Models, Red Star Models, RHPS, VLS
25- Industry News and The Reviewer Corps
- Conducted a most wanted kit survey and
published results. - In 1/48 Scale
- A-5/RA-5 Vigilante was no.1
- F-2 Banshee, T-28/F-5, Canberra, P-40 and a B-17
were also common - In 1/32 Scale
- A-6 Intruder was no. 1
- F-100, P-39 and P-47 also pulled a lot of votes
- Manufacturer did not ask for 1/72 scale (or we
would have asked!)
262nd Vice President Update
- Bids received for 2005 Convention
- Several chapters already inquiring about 2006
Director of Foreign Liaison Update
- New DFL is Glen Broman
- Revising the SIG requirements and status. Lost
Japanese SIG and getting a new SIG on Navy
Aircraft - Getting in touch with other IPMS groups to
swap/share articles
27IPMS Advisory Committee
28IPMS Advisory Committee
- Rationale- As the current membership is
"graying", membership numbers are dropping, the
percent of members who do not re-join is too
high, and printing and postage prices are only
going to rise, to remain a viable, vigorous
organization, it is prudent that at the outset of
the 21st Century, IPMS/USA examine itself to
ensure that it is meeting the current and
possible future needs of the plastic modeling
community and to foster membership growth.
29IPMS Advisory Committee
- Charge- This committee will review the
structure and function of any and all aspects of
IPMS/USA and make recommendations for
change/improvement to better meet those needs in
the future. The committee's actions may include
written, mailed or electronic surveys, and
personal interviews.- The committee will be only
advisory in nature. Any and all recommendations
from this committee must be submitted to the IPMS
E-board for review and/or any action.- Twelve
months after the committee has formed and
received its charge, it will submit a report to
the IPMS/USA E-board with its observations/recomme
ndations. Upon submission of that report, the
committee will be disbanded.
30IPMS Advisory Committee
- Committee Members
- Michael Benolkin, Chairman, IPMS Walker Mahurin,
R4 - Bob Collignon- IPMS Niagara Frontier- R1
- Clarence Wentzel- IPMS Kalamazoo- R4
- Nat Richards- IPMS Orange County- R8
- Dave Pepper- IPMS Winston Salem- R3
- Gil Hodges- IPMS First Coast- R11
31Advisory Committee Journal Recommendations
- Full list is on the web site
- Highlights
- More color in the National Convention issue
- Complete coverage of the Nationals
- Greater use of photographs, drawings and charts
- More contest articles
32Advisory Committee Survey Results (preliminary)
- 304 surveys received so far (results will be
posted on-line when complete) - Highlights
- If you attended an IPMS National Convention, did
you attend the IPMS Business Meeting? - Yes 80 37 No 137 63
- Would you use a Credit Card to renew your
Membership on-line? - Yes 189 62 No 110 36 No Response 5
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33Survey Results (cont.)
- Highlights (cont.)
- Do you visit/use the IPMS/USA Membership Forum on
the IPMS/USA Website? - Yes 196 65 No 107 35 No Response 1 0
- Would you be willing to pay additional membership
fees to have a Journal with more color? - Yes 189 62 No 110 36 No Response 5 2
- 42. Next year is the 40th Anniversary of
IPMS/USA. Would you like to see a special issue
of the Journal recognizing this event? - Yes 270 89 No 27 9 No Response 7 2
34IPMS Projects for Next Year
35Projects for the next year
- 1st Vice President
- More on-line builds (next one starts soon)
- More reviews and full builds for the Journal
- 2nd Vice President
- Take another look at outsourcing some of the
convention work. - Internet
- Officer Election starts mid July
- Upgrade server package to accept credit cards
36Projects for the next year
- Director of Foreign Liaison
- Work on having an IPMS table at the UK Nats
- More article translations
- Editor
- Review of Journal fonts for easier readability
- 40th Anniversary Issue
37VOTE
VOTE
VOTE
- Constitutional Amendments need 660 votes- We have
422. Only 2 months to go!!!!! - Officers- lots of choices so.
VOTE!!
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