Minutes

NACUSAsf Meeting: September 7 at the home of Nancy Bloomer Deussen

Present: Owen Lee, I'lana Cotton, Anne Baldwin, Herb Gellis, Art Bodin, Sondra Clark, John Beeman, Nancy Bloomer Deussen.

Reports

Publicity

Bob Stine has posted our entire June 2001 concert at MP3.com. Thank you Bob!
20th Century Forum. Sondra will find out about getting NACUSAsf concerts listed.
Nancy will represent NACUSAsf at Silicon Valley Arts coalition meeting and report back to us.
Lorie Griswold will join Joanne Carey and Carolyn Hawley to do publicity.

Treasurer

Non-Profit status for all of NACUSA - an application has been filed with the IRS, and subsequent supplemental question from the IRS have been answered. We await their response. If NACUSA gets non-profit status, the entire organization (all the chapters and national) will have to keep viable financial records for inspection by the IRS every 5 years in order to maintain the status. An accountant will likely be needed to design and implement an easy to follow method for keeping financial records and prepare the records for the IRS. Since it was NACUSAsf who has spearheaded this effort to gain non-profit status, it is falling on NACUSAsf to lead all of NACUSA in the maintainance the status. One other factor in all of this is that the national president (Marshall Bialosky) and national treasurer (Don Thompson) are reported to have expressed the desire to pass on their duties [to NACUSAsf] and retire. More discussion to follow once we have heard back from the IRS and see what happens in terms of the national leadership.

Concerts

October 27, 2002 concert is set: Menlo Brass Quintet at the Valley Presbyterian Church - MBQ is selecting the program. We await their reply.

Other concert dates have been set:

March 2, 2002 Composers Can Play Too... Palo Alto Art Center
June 8, 2002 Spring Resonance (ss Fl Vn Vc Pft) Palo Alto Art Center

Business

Chapter meeting/mailing party dates were set:

7:30 pm Friday, October 5, 2001 at Sondra Clark's: 430 Lassen St. #10, Los Altos 94022
7:30 pm Friday, February 8, 2002 at Nancy Bloomer Deussen's: 3065 Greer Rd. Palo Alto 94303
7:30 pm Friday, May 17, 2002 at Art Bodin's house.

The published score call address will be changed to Sondra Clark's so that area composers may more conviniently hand deliver scores to the programming committee if they wish do so. Although, any Programming Committee member may accept submissions (mailed or hand delivered).

Donation solicitation letter and season flyer were prepared for mailing.

Respectfully submitted,

Owen Lee, President NACUSAsf