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Darylene Dennon
Solid Energy, Inc.
Chair, Ed Foundation
Date February 14th, 2013
PDCA EDUCATION FOUNDATION REPORT
The PDCA Education Foundation, a 501(c)(3), trustee’s have worked hard since Sept.
2012 to finalize and update the 2nd Amended Agreement regarding our obligations as
trustees and to modernize/update the original 1986 language without changing the focus or
purpose. Jim Anderson with our directive drafted a 3rd Amended version which I am happy
to say was approved and is currently ready to be signed by the trustees.
The new language changed the make up of he trustees from 3 elected Officers a
minimum of 5 and a maximum of 9 trustees with term limits. One trustee must be a PDCA
Board Director and the majority must be Active Contractor members with the remaining
open to all other PDCA categories. The Treasurer remains as the BOD’s liaison as defined
by PDCA Policy. The Trustees will then elect a Chair each year and appoint new Trustees
accordingly.
The 3 year term limit in place is the same as the Friedman Foundation (AERF) so that
there remains a consistency in seasoned Trustees remaining on the foundation while
other’s terms end and new trustees’ terms beginning. We have approved & appointed two
new Trustees at this time. One is an active contractor Mike Dudukovich, Howell & Howell
Painting Contractors Inc. and the other is an active associate member Keith Cornelius,
Wooster.
The Trustee’s agreed to transition the term limit process for the next three years,
meaning current officers will term off 2014, 2015 & 2016 and newly appointed Trustees will
come on, one doing a 2 year term and one doing a 3 year term. It will be their choice. We
request a change be made in the PDCA Policy Appendix E and/or delete Appendix E
altogether since it isn’t necessary as it states both the AERF and Ed Foundation are their
own entities without PDCA BOD input.
Out next task is to consider utilizing a Grant Writing Service and/or hiring a part time
grant writer to seek potential grants that might be available to forward our Educational
Efforts both internally and to help us reach out to the community. We will begin our
fundraising efforts through other support besides our Associate Sponsor dollars. Though
they are greatly appreciated.
We have completed the following: 1) Education Foundation Summary 2) Grant
Application request Form 3) Grant review criteria 4) Grant Review Committee 4) 3rd
Amended Document
I want to thank the other Trustees, Dave Ayala and Dave Ryker for their active role for
the Education Foundation. I also want to thank Richard Greene and Beth McDaniel for
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