American Culinary Federation é
General Meeting at Centerpoint 3/21/06
Education;
Rational
Sara Shaw from People serving
People thanks us again for our help at PSP and she passed out the letters of
participation to the volunteers.
The meeting was called to order
by Chef Schuster
We say the pledge of allegiance
followed by a moment of silence for our departed Members, Family, and Friends.
Chef Schuster swears in new
members Robb Siever and Tom Freeman.
President Dwyer thanks Chef’s
Thomas and Bob from Rational.
He thanks our host’s Susanna
and Ann of Centerpoint.
Self introductions around the
room.
President Dwyer asks for a
motion to accept February’s minutes as written;
Chef Duberstein makes the
motion, seconded by Chef Conway,
The motion
passes.
President Dwyer thanks Sara
Shaw and said that the chef’s day off event was a great success. He thanks Chef
Gouda/ Chef Sturzl.
Committee Reports:
Fund raising; Chef Booth tells us that we have a Chef de’ Brigade
volunteer for the Helping Paws fundraising banquet, Chef Venne has
volunteered.
Membership; Chef Venne tells us that we average about two new
members each meeting.
Student/Junior scholarship; Chef Schuster tells us that he has the 2006
applications; if you want one goe see him. The deadline for accepting
applications is September 30th 2006,
The scholarships will be handed
out at our November awards Dinner.
We’re in the process of getting
together the Junior National ACF Convention Sponsorship for 2006; the
application will be on the web-site.
Certification; If you need information about certification or want to
borrow books to study see Chefs John Cappellucci, Rick Forphal or Phil
Gatto.
There will be a Practical exam during regionals at MCTC and we will be
doing more practical exams after the regional. Maybe doing a couple at other
sites might be good.
Correspondence; Chef Jedneak tells us that the thank you letters went
out from the UP show. Tracy Smith from The National office is going to send us
information on when the people from the office are coming in for the
regional.
Web-site; is
minneapolischefs.20m.com. If you want something to go on the web-site, like
pictures, just send them to Chef Lund and he’ll get them
on.
Are you Really ACF; Chef Eisinrigich thanks us for our donation to the Chef
and Child Family tree on behalf of his Mother.
Chef Conway informs us that we will be receiving a Gold Plate in April at
the Regional.
Chef and Child; Mark Good and Chris Sturzl. At the kids café in April
Chef Jeff LaBeau will be there. In May Chef David Eisenreich will be
there.
Mark Good informs us that Kids café will be starting back up in
September. He suggests that we try to go will 3 or 4 people that will be
committed to making sure that someone is there. Maybe a couple more puppets
would be a good thing.
By-Laws and Elections; Chef Booth informs us that nominations for chapter
officers will be starting at our August meeting, and run for three consecutive
meetings. Voting will take place in the beginning of November and the new Board
will be announced at our awards banquet. So if you want to be on the Board have
someone nominate you, if you know of someone that you want to see on the board
nominate them. And make sure you cast your vote when you get your
ballot.
AAC; Chef
Castergneri informs us that Chef Jeff LaBeau will be going in this summer at the
National.
Historian; chef
Schuster “If you have any pictures or plates awards ECT. To put out at the
regional please bring them, or bring them in to MCTC.”
2006; Everything is pretty much in the bag, done deal. We have hats for sale and a MN.
Moose.
We have the bags and badge holders, there very nice. We have a lot of
great stuff to put into the bags; we’ll be filling them this Friday at MCTC at
4PM so this will be your 1st opportunity to be a volunteer for the
regional. And Wednesday morning at 8AM at the Hyatt, in the Nicollet room A,
we’ll finish the bags.
There is an official 2006 regional chef jacket. If you get the order in
by Friday, she’ll bring your jacket to the conference. You can call Stella at
new chef # 1-800-new-chef ext. 254.
The cost of the jacket is $65.
Thursday night for the ice breaker we need 4 members to ride the busses
to Mystic, and we’re asking all other members to please drive themselves to
Mystic to save on rental of the busses.
The VP of the central region has stated that if you are in a chef jacket,
you will not be able to get an alcoholic drink.
We’ll need volunteers to take meal tickets and to check the rooms before
the seminars. We just need people to be available to step in and help when
needed.
There will be a lot of cool seminars to attend.
Chef Conway asks if you can get
just seminar tickets, the seminars come with
meals.
President Dwyer informs us that
Chef Fisher always goes above and beyond and it’s always
awesome.
MBI
took care of so much that there’s
not much else needed.
Chef Schuster tells us that we
have a shelving unit donated to display all of our
memorabilia.
Old Business; Nothing.
New Business; Chef Schuster thinks that the certification chairs
should do an education on certification again, a fact meeting to show people how
easy it can be.
President Dwyer asks for a
motion to close, Chef Conway makes the motion, Chef Koopman seconds. Meeting
Closed.
Submitted by Paul Booth CCC
Recording Secretary
ACF/MCC