Meeting called to order at 10:12
Present: Andrea Rackl, Dorie Guidon, Rabia Magnusson, Mary Walby, Spencer Rank, Debra Chang, Vanessa Ellis, Catherine Peterson (virtual), Eva Sauve, Wade Dingman, Lorraine Earle

Dorie will include Spencer’s and Wade’s contact info in the newsletter as teachers accepting new students

Minutes from January meeting: Dorie moves, Rabia approves

Treasurer’s Report
Checking: $4398.01 (this doesn’t include the scholarship fund)
Savings: $1348.95
Scholarship Fund: $4445

There will be no general meeting in March

*Honors Recital date? Andrea will ask Milica and Kay and Dorie will make sure it’s in the March newsletter

April meeting will be at Rabia’s and we will bring games to share

The Master Class got good reviews from participating teachers

Piano competition: email notification just came out

Signup sheet is passed around for Music Olympics – teachers needed for testing, room monitoring and cookies

Piano Guild: Mary is organizing this event taking place in May at Christ the Servant

*Rabia passes out a list of terms from new research on the brain - Andrea will make this available to the chapter

Meeting adjourned at 11:00

Respectfully submitted by Lorraine Earle

Present: Andrea Rackl, Dorie Guidon, Michael Hannon, Kaitlyn Ronstadt, David Zagelow, Eva Sauve, Lorraine Earle

Treasurer’s report: $8,113.00 in checking with an additional $700 Master Class payment to deposit; $1,348.00 in savings
The Heyer Scholarship fund has $4,445.00
2 ads have been removed from the website: Fandrich is out of business and Bellingham Music has not paid
*Michael is planning to set up for all chapter fees to be paid through the website next year

Minutes from last board meeting: Dorie moves to approve and Michael seconds

*Andrea will send the board’s recommendations for the Heyer scholarship to Mary Walby

Board approval form for piano competition:
*Andrea will ask that we offer the judge $80 per hour without specifying how many hours and also that the mileage compensation is clarified on contract

Dorie had a great visit with the WWU pedagogy class of 15 students and Jeff, Milica and Kay

*Lorraine will follow up with Milica on names of potential college students helpers for Music Olympics
There are an estimated 50 students for MLP

*Michael asks for minutes from last general meeting
Our current system is that the secretary sends minutes to La Pres to look over and she sends them over to Michael to upload to the website

*Dorie will send a general meeting reminder to the chapter 1 week ahead, mention that the minutes from the last meeting are on the website and pull out details from the newsletter to encourage members to attend the meeting

Dorie reminds us that the Bellonian goes out by the 10th  of the month and the deadline submission deadline is the 5th of the month

*Lorraine will bring snacks to the general meeting at Dorie’s
*Andrea will notify members that there will be coffee and snacks available

Repectfully submitted by Lorraine Earle