SFS Board Meeting
Oct. 7, 2008
Present: Karen Shaw, Fred Maslan, Susan Howell, Bruce Baker, Valerie Cohen, Marni Rachmiel, Ralph Kosche

Committee Reports

Concert Committee
- Well into season with 3 concerts.
- Gordon Bok did very well.
- Using brown paper tickets on several concerts.
- Working really well, insures attendance, easier for volunteers.
- Updated "how to be a producer" document.
- Fall full, spring filling up
- Shirley is moving, need to find a replacement
- Find/develop documentation for concom treasurer

Love music? Love numbers? Love the adoration of your peers? SFS Concert committee is seeking a new treasurer.  Contact Shirley Briggs-Comstock - concerts@seafolklore.org.

Dance Committee
Hall for Dec. 5 dance
Fremont Abbey - LilliAnne Cary lilli@att.net
Great hall in Greenlake
Haller lake
Church on Mercer Island

Option: On Fri night, bring the one from the blue building into the community hall.

Move to approve up to $1500 on AED for phinney.
Motion approved unanimously.


- Finance Committee

Checking account balances stable at $10,000
Trust fund stable at $120,000

Discussion of renewal policy

Marni: Did folk alliance membership get renewed?
Ralph: Yes

Question about advertising in-kind discounts with other orgs.

Motion: When in-kind discounts are requested, editor and president handle it and it gets reported via email to the board list.

Motion passes

Haller lake and Pacific northwest newsletter and PNA are all reciprocal advertising opportunities.

Rainy Camp committee
$5000 in bank, so dropping price from $70 to $50.
20th Anniversary
Slip and fall caused problems because insurance companies want to collect.  Added a hold-harmless clause to signup.  Suggested for other events.

Official word of the night - falderall

Request for participation in PNA Capital campaign - benefit dance/concert
Dance can do a benefit open band.
Ideas kicked around for a concert.
Suzanna at Northside Grill
Dance groups that practice at Phinney
Song circle on stage for a Sunday
Early next year
Hootenany with a bunch of musicians
Liz Driesbach/Sousa band