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CMA Annual Report
Year – 2007-08
Officers: Jamie Credle, President, Michael
Jordan, Vice-President, Nora Fleming, Secretary, Amy Belnap, Treasurer,
Christy Crisp, Immediate Past President
A summer meeting was held on July 11 for the
incoming and outgoing Executive Committee to review duties, update job
descriptions and discuss current issues.
Topics discussed:
Disaster Workshop logistics, suggestions for CMA programs during the
year, getting a new Treasurer, Reciprocal Admission Cards (the outgoing
Secretary agreed to coordinate this)
Membership chairman were Jamie Credle
and Christy Crisp
Membership Campaign: Membership letters
were sent out July 27, 2007.
The membership drive began a month earlier than in
previous years in order to get Reciprocal Admission Cards out in a
timely manner.
*This has been a banner year for membership with
there being 42 paid members including 37 institutional members and 5
individual members.
Audit Committee: CMA Audit Committee met in
October to review the finances of the organization between September
2007 and August 2007. All checks, transfers and deposits were accounted
for in the bank statements.
Organizational Finances: The organization
began the year with a checking account balance of $149.75 (9/1/07) and a
savings account balance of $7,769.05 and ended the year with a checking
account balance of $150.00 and a savings account balance of $7,185.48.
As of June 4, 2008 there is $1,296.72 in the Kiah Fund. Expenses
incurred include website hosting and domain name renewal fees for the
year, Georgia Historical Society repository fees, the organization’s
post office box yearly rental, lunch for speakers, annual registering of
the organization with the Georgia Secretary of State, printing of the
reciprocal admissions cards, postage for membership campaign; and
mailing of reciprocal cards. Note: 15% of membership dues is directed
to the Kiah Fund.
Website: The website, gacoastalmuseums.org,
continues to be maintained and updated by Jim Varnedoe.
Reciprocal Admission Passes were passed out
to the membership at the October meeting.
Kiah Fund:
- Disaster Workshop – attendance 40 people
($443.07)
- Brent Tharp, Georgia Southern University Museum
– AAM Re-accreditation workshop in Austin, TX ($324)
- Kristina Williams, Caretta Research Project – 28th
International Sea Turtle Symposium in Loreto, Baja, CA ($400)
- Gretchen Greminger, Jekyll Island Museum – NAI/ALHFAM
Southeast Regional Conference/Charleston, SC ($175)
- Cynthia Miles, Coastal Georgia Historical
Society – NAI/ALHFAM Southeast Regional Conference/Charleston, SC
($145)
- Karl DeVries, Ships of the Sea Museum – AAM
Annual Meeting in Denver, CO ($300)
Treasurer Amy Belnap proposed a clarification to
the Kiah Program’s funding in the proposal Kiah Fund Guidelines
(12/5/07), which were approved.
Programs: 2007-2008
September 5, 2007 speaker – Candy Lowe from Massie
Heritage Center Her talk was on grant funding and teacher training.
October 3, 2007 program – Paul Pressly who spoke on the Ossabaw Island
Foundation
November 7, 2007 program – Betty Renfro on the
Effingham County Museum
December 5, 2007 program – Brent Tharp, GSU Museum
and Kiah Fund Recipient, on “Secrets of Accreditation Seminar”
January 2, 2008 program - Michael Jordan presented
a sneak preview of his television documentary “Ships for Victory:
Liberty Ships of the Georgia Coast”
February 6, 2008 speaker – Rob Gibson, Savannah
Music Festival
February 28, 2008 - Gift Shop Workshop hosted by
Savannah History Museum shop and its manager.
March 5, 2008 hosted by Temple Mickve Israel with
program by Rabbi Arnold Belzer on the 275th Anniversary of
Mickve Israel in Savannah followed by a tour of the temple and museum
April 2, 2008 program – Cynthia Miles, Coastal
Georgia Historical Society, and Gretchen Greminger, Jekyll Island
Museum, who were Kiah Fund Recipients, on the Agricultural and Living
History Farms/National Association of Interpretation regional workshop
they attended in Charleston, SC
May 2, 2008 speaker – Dr. Thomas B. Lockamy,
Superintendent, Savannah/Chatham County Public Schools
June 4, 2008 program – Karl DeVries, Ships of the
Sea Museum and Kiah Fund recipient, on attending the American
Association of Museums Annual Meeting in Denver, CO
Issues during the Year:
- CMA making the Georgia Historical Society the
official repository for the organization’s institutional history.
- CMA participated in Mobility Management
Board/city way finding initiative information gathering.
- CMA discussed the concern for keeping its
non-profit status by filling a Form 990-N e-post card in the upcoming
year.
- CMA discussed the offer to museums and archives
of receiving AASLH/IMLS Connect to Collections Bookshelf.
Meeting attendance: Meeting attendance has
also been strong with the average being around 22 members per meeting.
Nominating
Committee for the 2008-2009 year: The Nominating Committee of Lauree
San Juan and Amy Belnap, Karl DeVries put together the slate of officers
for the next CMA year.
President: Vivian Rogers-Price, Mighty Eighth Air Force
Museum
Vice President: Michael Jordan, Coastal Heritage Society (second
term)
Secretary: Cynthia Miles, Seabrook Village
Treasurer: Amy Belnap, Telfair (second term)The slate was
elected and began the new term in June. |
