Board Notes 10/3/17

Board Notes 10/3
Beth:

• Boxoffice
• Reached out to a band about a possible WESU concert
• Potential acts for the fundraiser
• New shirt design in the making!
• WESU 2017 Google Folder has all the necessary board documents
  • Event Ideas — brainstorming space for event ideas, bands to bring, etc.
• Look at the board notes during the week for projects and to ensure forward motion!
• What’s New @ WESU Zine! Take the last few mins at each board meeting

 
Cormac:

• Spinitron schedule was not showing up on website — now shows up on the specific page but not on the “listen” sidebar

 
Xandra:

• Possible program with Center for Prison Education?
  • Something to think about if not immediately plausible — ways to serve the incarcerated community

 
Ruth

• Figured out how to chart Spins

 
Babe

• Now posting board minutes on the website

 
Meg
 

• New shows are great!

• Sharing shows at the meeting was great — good ways to encourage people/suggestions for contributors?

• People might be encouraged by more people contributing/more emails

• Come up with a general template for people to consider when sharing — 4-5 questions

 
Luke
 

• Post-it note now on computer detailing how to find the newer promos/PSAs

• • There is a specific Fall 2017 promo folder
  • More PSAs
  • Fundraiser promos can’t be made until we have a little more info — aim for Friday?

 
Jack

• Where are we sharing the email from (email)
  • People are welcome to print their own but we don’t have the printing capacity to do it ourselves

 
Jake

• Facebook countdown for record fair has been live for a few days
• Posting in WesAdmits Facebook pages
  • Ad in the Argus this week
  • Aural Wes responded to a request for a post, Wesleying still in the works
    • What’s In My Bag? (Aural Wes Record Fair feature)
  • REach out to Middletown Eye/Press for Ads
• Met with concert committee — seeming hopeful for a WESU Queen of Jeans show

 
Helly

• MD Blog — top album picks of the week
  • Need the login information
  • 3 New trainees expressed interest

 
Dillon

• Thanks to everyone who helped with Record Fair
• Posters all over campus up by noon tomorrow
  • Aiming for Main St. as well
• Reaching out to trainees to gauge interest for jobs
  • 10+ people for setup and breakdown
  • Full DJ lineup
  • 2 people needed at merch table throughout the day

• Need a post with the DJ schedule
• Need to talk to the box office about the Fundraiser
  • Max number of tickets we want to sell?
  • Door sales?
  • Reserve tickets?
  • Tiered pricing for students/faculty/community members?

 
Will

• Week 1 of training is in the books!
• Ways to make training less monotonous?
  • Station walkthrough with Luke?
• Sent out a list of hosts willing to take interns/board hours list for service hours

Ben M.

• Board emails: we should ideally all be using/distributing @wesu.org emails
  • Try and figure a game plan for returning to this as opposed to having some @gmail and some @wesu
• Merch!
  • New color/shirt combos for fall pledge drive in place of having to scramble for new designs — would have to be within a week or two if the latter as to not sit on sending out program guides
• Pledge Drive: No hard dates yet but sooner rather than later
  • Target most-listened to shows for donation phone banks
  • November is fundraising month!
  • Aiming for $20,000
• Transmitter
  • Still on 1500 watts — a few problems remain
  • Also a problem with the audio processor

 
~FUNDRAISER~

• Solidify a Name
  • Working name: Dinner and a Show
    • “WESU Everything Show”
• Figure out pricing
  • La Boca event was $25, students at $10
    • Box office takes $1.05 off every paper ticket sold
  • Room capacity is 205 people
  • Marketing to donor list/people who came to last year’s event

• Host/MC

• Acts
  • 7 so far, with feelers out to quite a few people
  • Nonmusical acts?
  • Hoping to finalize by Friday, doesn’t mean we can’t add more but good for promotion/putting together a bill