6:30 – 6:35 Call to Order, approval of January minutes
6:35 – 7:05 Officers report on actions during past month:
7:05 - 7:15 Chapter Elections
7:15 - 7:25 Barry Christianson -- "board transition and good practices"
7:25 - 7:30 Create Action Plan & To Do List
7:30 Adjourn

MINUTES

Prepared by Damon May, Secretary, Seattle Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. To be submitted for approval at the next chapter meeting.

Attendees:

Martin - President
Lori – Vice President
Damon – Secretary
Tabitha - Member
Taylor - Member

CALL TO ORDER

6:36: Call to order, approval of March meeting minutes

6:37: Lori described an event held by her state rep, Rep Kagi of the 32nd District, with religious tie-ins to Crista Ministries.

6:40: Treasury report from Richard

6:45: Richard reported on the Palo Alto simulcast event. Turnout was good, from several chapters.

6:47: Elections. Nomination for Damon to become next chapter President, seconded, all ayes. Nomination for Taylor to become next chapter Secretary, seconded, all ayes.

6:48: Taylor suggested starting a student chapter at Seattle University, since he knows someone there who would be interested. Martin knows a professor there who would also be interested. Let's get one started.

7PM: Damon talked about Expelled Exposed, a great new website from the NCSE

7:25: Martin nominated to be International Advisor, a new board position. Seconded. All ayes.

7:30: Adjourned

Action items:

Martin -- notify Damon of SU professor interested in starting student chapter
-- Tell Damon about NDP event military flyby, suggest people to send a letter to
Damon -- Google "ruth Kagi crista", add in "Mars Hill"
--Quarterly Activity Report -- we're late, do it soon
--Send link to National Day of Prayer website to the Board, let's all attend what we can
--Kent NDP event: flyby by military. Letter to Governor?
--Talk to distributors of Constantine's Sword about doing a screening in Seattle
Richard -- Quarterly treasury report
-- Find out when we can play Constantine's Sword for Meaningful Movies
-- Talk to AU National person in charge of student chapters, get advice
Taylor -- find a video of the Illinois State Rep who took an atheist to task in a public session. Get it on the website.
-- Does Seattle Atheists have a table at the Fremont Fair this year? Could they put out some AU literature?
Lori -- Contact Meaningful Movies about showing the FFF 10-minute video before a movie