News: July 2026 Executive Board Meeting Minutes

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July 20th, 2026 Eboard & Staff Quarterly Meeting   Call to Order The meeting was called to order on July 20th, 2026 at 7:00pm EST by John Noack. Staff Updates and Reports EA – Updating the Gallery and Forum sections of the website soon. Main website migration is setup but should wait until after the National Convention. Review and National Convention sites need to update by the end of the year.   Eboard Roundtable/Action Item Updates ETR – Currently have 7 photographers for contest photography, expecting a smooth process. Everything is going smoothly on the social media front, has made preparations for the increase in traffic due to the National Convention. PP – Head judges are contacting their teams already. Agenda made for NCC meeting. Has people looking at revising the “What Judges Look For” document to make it more readable. CB – Journal is going out this week to the printers. National Convention issue has been printed and is ready to go. Still looking for an Ad Manager. Added a designer and an editor to the journal staff in the last two weeks. DM – Reviewer corps dinner and manufacturers dinner is setup and ready. 20 reviews posted in the last month. There will be a table setup in Tiger Meet for the reviewer corps to display the models they built. Discussion was had on the need of updating the forum as opposed to ending the forums. Vote was held on ending the forums and passed unanimously. DL – Menu set for the Chapter Social which has been finalized. Awards have been completed and are ready. Still have seven lapsed chapters, two are not renewing and a deadline of July 31st was given to complete renewal. A colored brochure is in the works for chapters to use to promote IPMS/USA. Also working on an updated submission process for awards. MO – Financially the society continues to do well and things are going as expected. Income is slightly lower but expenses are also lower. JT – Has been working on the slideshow for the Annual Business Meeting, still waiting on slides from a few people. Once they have been received, will put it all together and send to ETR for formatting. Will have name placards made for the meeting. SH – Convention journals have been delivered to Fort Wayne already. Bags and name tags have been completed. Couldn’t get TV’s to display slideshow in lobby so will have a happy hour followed by the award show in the theater. Writing scripts for both the Juniors and Regular awards shows. A question was asked by a member registering for the National Convention regarding the ability to conceal carry a weapon at the convention. It was agreed that they could conceal carry as it was in accordance with Indiana Law and the rules of the Convention Center. The only open question was concerning the insurance for the event which turned out to be a non-issue. JN – Would like every member of the board to plan to spend time at the registration table helping Nancy and Mike. Had appointed a Constitution and Bylaws review committee which reported their current progress. Wants to put together a position description for an IT Leader position, will be requesting input from board members. Recently participated in a podcast alongside other IPMS organization leaders.   Nothing Further the meeting was adjourned at 8:06pm EST. The next meeting is scheduled for August 8th, 2026 at 10:00am EST at the National Convention.

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