2018 June Board Notebook

Focus groups-
Focus groups were created to allow board members to see our world outside of
conventions. Board Members attended the Leadership Summits and Infuse
Educator Conference.
Arkansas- Report by Jerry Newton. There were over 200 Betas. Jerry conducted
his planning meeting at the same time as the Leadership Summit was being
held. Jerry gave his report on what was accomplished in the Arkansas planning
meeting with his council and their ideas. Sabrina Runyon gave her insights and
thoughts on the Leadership Summit and actively engaged their kids. Tim Hager
gave his perspective on the Arkansas Focus Group which discussed state
councils.
Tennessee-Strategic Plan -Clarke Scott gave his insights on perspectives and
legal council and the changing of student speakers. Ken Dinkins and Gwen
Young gave their insights on their perspective of the meeting.
Infuse Teacher Conference- Atlanta- Pat Stout, Zel Thomas, Keith Leger, Stan
Long and Rita Carter talked about teacher improvement, equality at state
conventions, their perspective on engagements with teachers, and talked about
the amount of money the bigger states are collecting. They spoke about the
impact of how Beta meant so much to the kids that spoke and how it has
improved their lives. Keith Leger stated that Louisiana has now increased their
funds and now have an excess of funds. They are in the process of allocating
these funds. Dr. Leger talked about two ideas that he had discussed with Bobby.
One idea was to combine the Jr/Sr accounts, and the second idea was to allow
the National Office to take care of the money from state fund accounts. This
would occur over the next 2-4 years. The $20 fee would go to nationals and they
would handle that funding moving forward. Rita Carter stated that we are not
zeroing out for the end of the year and having to manage that process.
All Boards will meet with their Department heads this afternoon at
Headquarters.
Executive Committees Recommendations-
Bob Bright handed out this information to board members.- ( See Attachment-
From the Executive Committee Agenda))
Pat Stout stated that we would take each item one at a time on the list. Bob took
each item and provided clarity.He also gave the recommendations from the
attorney for various items.
#1 Item--Officer speeches will be monitored across the board.
Dennis Campbell gave the explanation as to why this was discussed in TN( i.e.
from the NFL protests).
Rita Carter stated that we want to allow the convention to start off on a positive
note.