[board] Looking forward to the Zoom Board Meeting.

[GARY DENISON]

Per Robert's request here are my initial thoughts as Treasurer
 
Primary Tasks required of Treasurer
* Provide accurate financial reporting to the board regarding the association's revenue and expenses and account balances. 
* File required annual reports to the Federal and State authorities to ensure we maintain our status as a nonprofit
* Obtain documentation necessary for board approval to ensure that bills are paid in a timely manner.
* Maintain transparent financial records that can be easily reviewed and audited.
* Help ensure members are welcomed and engaged at monthly meetings
* Help represent the club at community and outreach activities
* Share knowledge and experience with membership
Treasurer’s Goals and Objectives:
* Work with Membership/Jim to better understand the interface of when dues are collected and subsequently deposited into our bank account.
* Resolve the ownership issue of our Association’s accounts. Currently Jennifer Berry remains the “owner” of accounts.  Banks are required to have an “owner” of accounts.  While having Jennifer was probably expeditious in the initial opening of the accounts, we need to address this issue going forward (i.e. who should own the accounts?)
* Currently Jennifer and I are the only signatories on the accounts. We need to have Jennifer removed and we likely need a backup signatory who can act in my absence.  This is going to entail Jennifer and that other person physically going to the bank together to get this done.  Who?
* Discuss with the Board our banking relationship and investment accounts
* Directors and officers errors and omission policy.  We have one but do we really need one?  $857 yearly expense.
 

> On 06/17/2026 2:37 AM PDT Robert MacKimmie <president at marinbees.org> wrote:
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> Thanks to all of you for stepping up, and allowing our modest organization to continue on its journey. I have been attending the Marin Bee group for twenty years, and have witnessed its many iterations. Twenty years ago, beekeeping everywhere was experiencing new and surprising growth, mostly due to bees being in the news with Colony Collapse Disorder, CCD. The great unwashed public somehow decided that they should help bees by keeping a hive in their backyard. The deceptive myth was that beekeeping was easy, and as we all found out, it's SO EASY.
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> For twenty years, we have been trying to figure out how to keep bees alive, and while we have learned much, we have also had many more bee ailments that globalization has foisted upon us. Hive beetle, Africanized bee, EFB, Deformed Wing Virus-B existed twenty years ago, but now they impact us daily.
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> Twenty years ago, I was told that there was no bee disease in Marin, that there was no need of treatments. It took a decade before we could actually talk about diseases openly in the group. There was little education about how to keep bees alive, beyond the research offered by our many remarkable speakers.
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> From the first time I sat in an all day workshop with Randy Oliver in 1998, scientific method and accurate delivery of highly tested, proven methods has been primary how I share information about beekeeping. What is taught regarding what I know about bees is much more important than what I think about bees or beekeeping. My method is to learn beekeeping methods through lecture, discussion, YouTube, or reading, then test the methods on a number of my hives, while comparing results against control hives. Only then will I speak about and share those proven methods.
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> For all these reasons, I am looking forward to the opportunity we currently share, where we have a strong population of recent beekeepers. It is much easier to share accurate information about effective beekeeping methods, even to a total greenhorn, rather than to 'unteach' incorrect information. Through monthly meetings, Hive Dives, Zoom Classes, and in person trainings, I expect that we will be able to bring a comprehensive understanding of solid beekeeping basics to all those who attend, and apply themselves. I have many times expressed that within a year's time, we can train complete newbees to be comprehensive early beekeepers who know how to keep their hives alive, healthy and productive. Beyond that core comprehensive level of knowledge, we will also provide methods and special interest projects that intermediate and advanced beekeepers need for growth.
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> The Marin Bee group is a big tent, and it can provide a myriad of initiatives. If Board members have ambitions for the group, I expect that those interested people will talk about those projects, plan them, and then deliver the efforts to make those agenda come to fruition. We have all stood up to help the organization to survive, function, and prosper, for the membership, and for the people who attend the meetings. At the same time, like all information academies, we also need to project what people need to know next, to provide the next steps for people as they evolve into the more advanced understandings that comprehensive beekeeping requires. As a group, we also have the opportunity provided by our unique moment in beekeeping's evolving time, where we can undertake simple initiatives which will move the current reality of beekeeping forward, making marked progress in the state of beekeeping, where making genetic improvements to the stocks we run a huge advantage to the average beekeeper. As a finite bee community, we can make a vast difference. Truthfully, it takes a community to make change.
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> All that is my understanding, and my ambition in standing to assume the President's role. There is a vast amount of work to be accomplished, and we are gifted to have the opportunity. I look forward to working with each of you to accomplish great things, and I appreciate that each of you have been willing to participate.
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> If I can ask a favor. If each of you would take five minutes to write down a very brief recap, listing 3-5 bullet points about what you understand to be the most primary tasks required of your position right now, and also 3-5 bullet points defining your understanding of the primary goals and objectives that your position faces for the year. Be brief. No responses are incorrect. We just need a common vision of where we are, and where we are going, and I am curious about what you see.
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> Many thanks,
> robert
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