AIA Ft. Worth Visit with CEO Robert Ivy, FAIA

Notes from November 20, 2013

Attendees:
President – J. Romigh
President-Elect-  D. Gatzke
Secretary – D. Roe
Treasurer – T. Stewart
VP Communications – B. Allen
VP Education – J. Earley
VP Honors – G. Ibanez
Dir-at-Lg – C. Davis
I/A Director – J. Mejia
PP Director – B. Shaw
Dir. Fundraising – M. Bennett
TSA Director – S. Dennehy
ExD. – Alesha Niedziela

2014 Board:
Dir-at-Lg – Amy Brooks
Emerging Professional Director – Jennifer Branham
VP Honors –Norman Ward
Secretary – Amanda Schulte

Additional Associates Invited:
Joseph Cannon
Agustina Siquot
Chris Ortiz

1. Clarity of Organization
2. Ambiguity of evolution as decision making body
3. Representation or not?
4. Leadership Development Committee:
   • Gatekeeper to the Board
   • Council = Leadership to the Board
5. Corporation?
   • AIA is member-driven
6. Texas Nominating Committee:
   • Decisions by Board of Directors
   • Regional Representation
   • Member-Driven
   • Formula for fewer
7. Knowledge Communities:
   • Are they active?
   • Adequate funding to get out to members?
   • Money and influence
8. Geographic
   • Texas Role:
     • Texas worked hard
     •  Works well
     • Losing ground
     • Fly over states?
     • Driven by someone with an agenda
9. Structure of Governance:
   • Programs
   • How best to govern?
   • Cart before the horse
10. AIA Foundation
    • Member service
    • How governance will impact?
11. Task new governance with new issues
    • Call Council =  Board
    • Call Board =  Executive Committee
12. Right small group
13. Members don’t feel represented
14. What makes us different?
15. College of Fellows – works differently
16. Smaller, more elite
17. We need to be out in front of Big Issues (Architecture for Humanity)
18. Emerging Professionals = want action
19. Cooperate with sister organization
    • C. ED
20. Design Practice Academy
    • Like teaching hospital
    • Operated by schools
    • Funded by profession
21. ACSA:
    • How control perpetuated
    • Who shows up? Could get distorted
    • How does leadership development fit in?
      • Could become agenda driven
      • Potential leaders?
      • Ground rules?
        • Members have to rotate diverse regional representation
        • Texas has nominations committee
    • Sometime too inclusive
    • Large percentage of new members
    • Value of membership
      • Value of Portal
      • Meaning of being a member
      • Makes us better architects
      • Non-member is less committed
    • Clarity of what we want to do
    • How does it all relate?