passed.
Next meeting agenda item(s):  General Membership to vote on amendments to bylaws Adjournment:  Motion was made by Bettie to adjourn, seconded by Marcia, motion approved & meeting adjourned at 9:32pm.

Board of Directors Meeting, Southwest Chula Vista Civic Association
                                                   February 6, 2008, Balboa Realty

Call to order:  At 7:17pm by President Theresa Acerro.

Roll Call:  Theresa Acerro, Earl Jentz, Derrick Dudley, Doc Howard, Norberto Salazar, Hugo Salazar, Marica Morris, Bettie Lupi.

Approval of minutes of last board meeting, January 28, 2008.  Motion made by Marcia to accept minutes, seconded by Bettie, motion passed. 

Approval of agenda:  Theresa appointed Hugo to facilitate meeting.   Hugo introduced OARRs format as a guideline to efficiently conduct  board meetings and include all board members in a timely manner.  A suggested agenda for future board meetings  was discussed item by item & either agreed upon or changed & agreed upon.    Earl proposed 1 1/2 hours time limits on each meeting.   Marcia made a motion to have Hugo allot temporary times to each agenda item, this was seconded  by Doc, motion passed.  
Information written on the  board by Theresa during about discussion follows:
__Goal 1 1/2 hrs. for each session--time of each session- or 1 hour__Facilatator, timekeeper, guidelines, rules _Be on time
__Old business--discussion of what is on-going, left over from last meeting__IV Approval of agenda, new business-old business-new business discussion

VI Reports:  A:  Chair:  Theresa proposed five (5) changes to the bylaws.

1_Article II Membership
    Section 1_Third sentence proposed to read: Membership shall be for one (1) year and expire on the same date joined the following year.  Motion made by Earl to approve, seconded by Hugo. Motion passed.

2_Article II Membership
    Section 1-A Second sentence  shall continue and read:
including Otay Valley Redevopment Area.  Norberto made a motion to approve, Derick seconded, motion passed. 

3_Article II Membership
    Section 1-B  Added: Board may extend voting rights to any associate member deemed to have made an exceptional contribution to the organization.   Motion made by Hugo to approve, seconded by Derrick, motion passed.

4_Article III Directors
    Section 2  The number of board members changed from 13 to 11.  Earl made motion to approve, seconded by Norberto, motion passed.

5_Article III Directors
    Section 6  Annual meeting changed to fourth (4) Monday of January.  Motion made by Marcia to approve, seconded by Bettie, motion passed.

Finance report: Marcia:  January, 2008_

                 Balance------------------------------$2,769.97
                 Deposit------------------------------ $   695.00
                 Disbursements---------------------- $   912.90
                 Total---------------------------------$ 2,552.07

Doc: Telephone tree strategy for membership.  Doc will call the English-speaking residents and Norberto volunteered to call the Spanish-speaking residents.  They will concentrate on those who do not have email. 

Bettie:  Volunteer forms were passed out for the month of February to each member.  Those who have turned in their forms for January are: Kenn, Guillermo & Bettie.

Old business :  37 people renewed their membership in January.  Discussion of realistic goal for membership drive ensued.  Marsha suggested to double last years membership would be great.  Hugo stated we need to concentrate on current membership to utilize in our efforts.  Doc also would like to focus on current membership with positive goal toward increasing.   No decision was made.
Motion made by Derrick to table remainder of agenda from 3-B to the end until board has next meeting.  An additional meeting was agreed upon , to be held  Wednesday, February 13, at 6:30pm , at 397 Third Ave. This was seconded by  Marcia, motion