August 14 & 27, 2014 Conversations with Kevin Smith
SOSMN leaders asked Kevin Smith, MOA’s Interim President and CEO, if he would be willing to address a meeting or two of music fans and answer their questions. He said yes, and at these two meetings he gave some introductory remarks and then responded to questions from the audience. Kevin touched on topics of the board membership and structure, budgets, multiple fall events, donors, the upcoming and '15-'16 seasons, governance, staff, organizational culture, submitting suggestions, reaching out to the community, conversations with corporate donors/grantors, new advertising themes, a new collegial spirit between board-musicians-staff-community, Orchestra Hall signage and décor, etc.
Although we are not planning to publish a transcript or summary of the meeting , you can get a glimpse of the August 27 meeting from Pamela Espeland's article in MinnPost. Just click here: http://www.minnpost.com/artscape/2014/08/interim-ceo-describes-changes-programming-staff-and-culture-minnesota-orchestra
June 10, 2014 Community Meeting
To view or download a .pdf of the June 10 presentation, click this link:
SOSMN Presentation: "Community Update June 10, 2014"
Or to view it as a 7-minute slideshow, click this link:
SOSMN Slideshow: "Community Update June 10, 2014"
November 20, 2013 Presentation to the Community
To view or download a .pdf of this November 20, 2013 presentation, click this link:
SOSMN Presentation "The MOA Debacle: Unlocking the Truth" - November 20, 2013 - corrected
Errata:
This edition of the presentation corrects two errors found in the original.
1. On slide 8. Governor Pawlenty (not Governor Dayton) signed the legislation in 2010 authorizing $14M in state bonds.
2. On slide 18, the projected net from operations for 2014 is $9,000 (not $7,835,000), and thus the percent change in net results from FY2011 is +100% and the dollar change is +$2,917,000.
This edition of the presentation corrects two errors found in the original.
1. On slide 8. Governor Pawlenty (not Governor Dayton) signed the legislation in 2010 authorizing $14M in state bonds.
2. On slide 18, the projected net from operations for 2014 is $9,000 (not $7,835,000), and thus the percent change in net results from FY2011 is +100% and the dollar change is +$2,917,000.
To view a video of the presentation, click this link:
SOSMN Presentation "The MOA Debacle: Unlocking the Truth" - video recording on YouTube