2001 Annual RCML Business Meeting Minutes
March 9, 2001

The meeting was called to order by President Mel Olson.  The meeting was held at the Holiday Inn Boardwalk in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Mel expressed appreciation to the UNLV faculty for the work they did in organizing this year's conference.

Secretary's report:
Dixie Methany indicated that the minutes of last year's business meeting had been posted at the registration table since yesterday.  She called for a motion to approve the minutes.  Pat Lamphere Jordan made a motion that the minutes be approved.  The motion was seconded and approved.

Mel Olson expressed appreciation to Dixie as outgoing secretary for her contribution to the organization.

Vice President for Conferences:
Judy Olson thanked retiring members to the conference committee and introduced new members.

Judy then asked Sheryl Maxwell to share information about next year's conference in Memphis.  Sheryl indicated that proposals for the 2002 conference were due June 15, 2001. She asked for suggestions for keynote speakers.

Judy then shared that there was no site yet designated for the 2003 conference.  Suggestion was made for members to consider the possibility of hosting a conference in conjunction with another conference, specifically the School Science and Mathematics Association, which is considering moving to a Spring date for their annual conference.  Discussion occurred around the following points:

• School Science and Mathematics Association conference attendance: around 500
• Good connection
• Small conference
• Researchers in math and science
• Also looked as possibility of making connections with PME-NA
• Concern about the complexity of making choices between sessions if members belonged to both organizations
• Suggested as a good way to advertise RCML and its journal
• Note of caution re coordination of conference program
• Suggestion to overlap for ½ day only
• Advantage of economy of scale and possible overlap of keynote sessions
• It was left to the board to explore this idea further and possibly develop a firm proposal for a shared meeting.

Treasurer's report:
Lynae Sakshaug presented the following budget report:
 

INCOME	2000 BUDGET	ACTUAL	2001 BUDGET
Membership	$4,000	$4666	$4,000
Interest	$350	$360.41	$350
Conference	$1,000	$5714.38	$1,000
Total Income	$5,350	$10,740.79	$5,350

 

EXPENSE	2000 BUDGET	ACTUAL	2001 BUDGET
Conference
Board Meals	$125		$125
Plaques	$300	$145	$300
Seed Money	$1,000	$1,000	$1,000
Publications
Focus	$3,000	$1,381	$3,000
Newsletter
Printing	$450	$716.50	$450
Postage	$250		$250
Other
Midyear Board	$200	$0	$200
Office Supplies	$100	$22.60	$100
Webmaster		$150	$150
Total Expenses	$5,425	$3,415.10	$5,575

 

TOTAL ASSETS   December 31, 2000	2000 Budget	Actual
Wilson Fund	$1,000	$0.00
Checking Accounts	$19,189.70	$24,020.19

Sue Brown moved approval of the budget.  The motion was seconded and approved.

Vice President for Publications:
Bea Babbitt reported on recent conversation with Focus Editor, Jean Schmittau.  Manuscripts are coming in steadily.  Special issues are in preparation:

• Linguistics
• Assessment/teacher preparation
• Change factors
• The Technology issue should arrive shortly.

President then offered thanks to the following people:
Dan Brahier: newsletters
Jayne Fleener: web coordinator
Ryan Speer: web page

Mel gave special thanks to Bea Babbitt and Dan Brahier on behalf of RCML

Membership:
George Pattison reported there are now 175 members.

President asked if there was any old business.

The following information was shared regarding Focus:
Issue 3 & 4 should arrive soon
The journal is in the best condition it has been in a long time in respect to timely publication of issues.

New business:
Reminder that we are still looking for a location for the 2003 Conference, although conference committee has approached members from Arizona to consider hosting the conference in 2003.

A special thanks to Bill Speer for his work for RCML.

Virginia Usnick was introduced as the in-coming president.

She then introduced the following newly elected personnel:
VP for Publications: Dan Brahier, who has agreed to continue as newsletter editor for the coming year
Secretary: Anne Reynolds
Conference Committee: Roland Pourdavood, Winifed Mallam

Ginny indicated that elections would need to be held for the following positions:
President Elect
2 Conference Committee Members
Treasurer

The in-coming president then presented a token of our appreciation to out-going president: Mel Olson.

Announcements:

As there was no other business the meeting closed with a video presentation of Memphis, the host city for the 2002 conference.