LMGI COMPASS
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Fall 2023
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Guild Is Incorporated
as a Nonprofit
Interim Board is named:
Bruce Chudacoff – CEO/President
Orin Kennedy – Vice President
Cassandra Heredia – Secretary
Beth Tate – Incorporator/Assistant Secretary
Richard McMillan – CFO/Treasurer
John Grant
Jody Hummer
Lisa Blok-Linson
Bob Craft
2004
In Orin's Rec
Room with
the Interim Board
Orin Kennedy: I offered a meeting room at my
condo—first for the Interim Board and then later for the
Founding Board. We actually met there for several years.
Beth Tate: I called the first meeting of the Interim
Board at Orin's place in January. I wanted to work
through the bylaws and other protocols before officially
opening up the Guild to the community. I turned to the
set decorators for help. They shared their bylaws and
invaluable information on how to run as a nonprofit.
Cassandra Heredia: Beth Tate called and said, 'I
need to put together a Board, can you be the secretary?'
Beth was so passionate, I was flattered. Everyone was
passionate, engaged and dedicated.
Thom Anable: Beth and I were friends. She
asked me, 'Hey, this thing is starting, do you want to be
involved?' She wanted to make sure that commercial
people were included. I thought it was a great idea. She
knew I was conversant in union contracts. I had 20 years
in the DGA before joining the Teamsters.
Beth Tate: The Interim Board laid the groundwork
and dove into the minutia of setting up a nonprofit. We
started recruiting people to join the Guild so they could
vote in the first Board election, which would be held at
our first General Membership Meeting in May. We voted
to enlarge the Board to include up to 21 members. We
invited Steve Dayan, Sheri Davis and supporters from
local permit offices to that first big meeting. Orin and
Jody spoke.
NOVEMBER
JANUARY
TO APRIL
Jody Hummer:
Those of us who became founding
members of the LMGA were connected by
our dedication to the art and the science
of our shared profession. Over the last
months of 2003, Beth found a nonprofit
lawyer and officially incorporated LMGA
papers for the Location Managers Guild
of America, A California Nonprofit Mutual
Benefit Corporation. By November of
2003, we were planning our first official
guild meeting. The LMGA was real!
2004 January to April
• Voting on bylaws, membership categories,
wording of mission statement and insurance
review
• Website and protocols for new projects
discussed
• Plans made for first General Membership
Meeting
• Discussed vendors becoming business
members
• Maryland Film Office makes a donation
• Mar Vista potluck for pre-LMGA General
Membership Meeting get-together
