Mission

Membership

Membership is restricted to only one individual from each business category.

A member of Powertipps may not be a member of another tips, leads or referral type organization. Exceptions to this would include a city chamber, service groups (i.e. Rotary, Kiwanis etc. or the Men/Women in Business groups).

Membership dues updated December 7, 2007

To apply for PowerTipps membership, a prospective member must attend two meetings and obtain a sponsor. At the second meeting, the applicant completes and submits a MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION, along with the $20.00 initiation fee, $50.00 annual membership fee and $10.00 one-time fee for webmaster listing for Powertipps web page ($80.00) to the board.

The application is forwarded to the membership committee for review and acceptance or non-acceptance. Applicants are notified of acceptance or non-acceptance prior to the next scheduled meeting.

Qualifications

To ensure maximization of tips or leads, only one individual from each business category can be a member. Guests will be coordinated through the Vice President to eliminate possible conflict.  Members must be owners of a full-time business, or be a full-time employee.  Members representing multi-level marketing products may use their membership only to promote their product and may not use their membership for recruitment of representatives.

Members will uphold good business ethics and standards of care, and further, that members understand that a continued documented breach of business ethics and/or standards will result in forfeiture of that members membership in PowerTipps.

Duties and Responsibilities

• President – Presides over meetings, updates directory and sign-in sheet. Enforces and updates bylaws.
• Vice President -- Conducts meetings in the President’s absence.  Coordinates guests to discourage conflict and schedules guest speakers.  Greets members and guests at general meetings.
• Secretary -- Collects Tipp Tickets for processing.  Takes meeting notes and keeps attendance records.
• Treasurer -- Keeps balanced bank account, provides monthly account report. In charge of fines and dues.
• Past President -- In charge of retention.  Contacts members and applicants. Coaches current board.
• General Members -- Members are responsible for their own promotional materials and to keep business card box stocked.
• Sponsors -- Is responsible for guest attendance and orientation.

Elections

PowerTipps officers will be elected each December and June to serve a six-month term from January to June and from July to December, respectively.  The election will consist of nominations the first or second week of December and June, followed by silent voting the third week of December and June.  The votes are tallied by two members.

In the event that the President resigns before the six-month term is expired, the Vice-President will assume that position.  The Vice-Presidential slot, and any other vacant slot on the Board will be filled by a nomination process and election by the membership.

The previous term’s President will automatically serves as the Member at Large for the following term.

Attendance

Meetings are held every Friday morning at 7:00 a.m. at the Iron Horse Restaurant. Regular attendance is required.  No more than two absences in each two-month period are allowed. Members must notify the President, Vice-President or Secretary of the board, in advance, for excused absences.  If a member is absent more than the acceptable number, the member will be contacted to determine their desire or ability to remain in PowerTipps. If the member cannot attend on a consistent basis, the member will be asked to resign and will not receive a refund of prior dues paid.

Dues and Fines

Dues:

• $20.00 Initiation Fee
• $50.00 Annual Membership Fee
• $10.00 one-time fee for webmaster listing for Powertipps web page
• Initial fees are due when the Membership Application is submitted
• Paid annually on January 1st thereafter

Fines:

• 25¢ if late to the meeting
• 25¢ if no tip or referral given
• 25¢ f name badge not worn to meeting
• 25¢ if no guest brought during membership drive
• $1.00 if absent the previous week
• $1.00 if cell phone goes off during the meeting

Past President's Club: (voted by membership in 1st Quarter 2004 - Bill Dick, President)

It was proposed by the board and agreed to by vote of the general membership that, for each term of presidency, PowerTipps provide a dinner for members of the past presidents club. This group was determined to be the previous four presidents and the current board. This event is intended to:

1. To create a venue where the new president could learn from the experiences of their recent predecessors.
   NOTE: Lessons learned will be documented by each ongoing administration in a "President's Journal" to be discussed in these meetings and passed on to each newly elected president.
2. To create a program that would help the presidency be a more desirable job so that more people would run for the position.