Board Meeting Minutes Tuesday 1st July, 2014 10.30am SMIA Office
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Present: Stewart Henderson (SH), Dougal Perman (DP), Tam Coyle (TC), Greg Kane (GK), Graham Collins (GC) and Caroline Cooper (CC).
1. Apologies Ally Gray.
2. Minutes Of Last Meeting And Matters Arising The minutes of the last meeting were approved.
3. SAY Award The SAY Award was successfully held on the 19th of July. SH thanked CC for her work on the project and stated that he'd be taking a step back from the award in future years. The board discussed this and decided that CC will take over the management of the SAY Award with input from the board. ACTION - CC and SH will discuss further. SH mentioned that the SAY Award will have to go through Creative Scotland's open funding route next year and that it's essential to bring a commercial sponsor on board. ACTION - CC will organise a meeting to specifically discuss commercial sponsor options. ACTION - CC will organise a dinner at Oran Mor with invited guests to discuss future nominators and judges. ACTION - CC will organise an open members meeting to discuss ideas for the SAY Award moving forward.
4. Independent Label Fairs CC informed the board that the SMIA have been approached to get involved with two independent label fairs. The first of which would take place in Paisley in October as part of the Spree festival. The second would take place in Aberdeen in November. The board discussed and decided to go ahead in partnering with the November Aberdeen fair. ACTION - CC will follow up with 57 North and begin planning the Aberdeen Independent Label Fair. ACTION - CC will speak to Renfrewshire Arts about how else the SMIA could be involved with The Spree.
5. The Big Music Project The SMIA are an official partner of the Big Music Project. ACTION - CC will schedule a meeting with the board to discuss ideas for the project.
6. Business Plan And Membership ACTION - SH will draft an email to the SAY Award Longlist inviting them to join the SMIA.
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7. Online Members Handbook ACTION - GC will work on an online members handbook for the members area of the SMIA website. 8. AOB Director Ally Gray's hiatus from the board - CC informed the board that AG would like to take a six month hiatus from his duties as a director due to increased work load within his own business. AG has made it clear that although he would like to return after the six month period, if the board feels it best for him to resign as a director he will do so. The board fully agreed that AG's break from the board should be temporary and that they would be happy to welcome him back at the 2015 AGM. BIME - CC will speak to Shain Shapiro about how the SMIA can get involved with this year's BIME festival. SMIA Placement - CC will allow a music business student to complete placement at the SMIA office. Meeting ended at 12.22pm.
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