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Unit
143 Board Meeting Minutes
Rev
1
December
10, 2008
President
Suzi Shymanski-Moore called the meeting to order at 7:05 PM.
Present were Board members Bob Janis, Bob Wheeler, Jane Ettelson,
Ed Hale, Debbie Romero, Donna Pedrotti, Steve Zenk, Bobby
Riggs, Carl Cylne, Carole Benkelman, Jennifer Luner and Jackie
Baker. Absent was Board member Bill Bunn. Also present was
Mike Carmen.
November
Minutes
The
November minutes were approved.
Corresponding
Secretary's Report
The
database was downloaded on December 3 rd from ACBL to replace
the Unit 143 database. This will be done monthly.
The
2008 POTY report was updated to include results of the Nov.
9 th and Dec 7 th Unit Games. The report was e-mailed to Milt
Zlatic for posting on the unit website. Ed Schultz is the
2008 winner
Sanctions
were requested and received for Lee Hastings' 2009 Unit games.
Mailing
labels were printed for Debbie Romero. These labels will be
used for postcards for the January 2009 Sectional tournament.
The
Unit Officer Report was submitted to ACBL. This report is
required after the election of new officers and changes in
committee assignments.
Mini-McKenny
medals were ordered from Baron Barclay. The bill was sent
to Bob Janis.
Notebooks
for the 5 new Board members were prepared.
Treasurer's
Report
Bob
Janis provided a copy of the Unit 143 balance sheet as of
November 30, 2008. This showed a balance of $14,696 in the
checking account. The unit has $40,249 in current assets.
The report shows a profit of $1,302 for the months of October
and November 2008. The report does not reflect expenses prepayment
for the meeting room at Olivette and St Charles. Olivette
is owed $370 and St Charles is owed $8700 for 2009 use of
their facilities. There is no rent increase to use Blanchette
Park in St Charles.
Bob
has filed the IRS Form 990 for the past fiscal year.
Bob
will have Suzi Shymanski-Moore authorized to sign Unit 143
checks. Authority for John Samsel and Mary Hruby to sign Unit
143 checks will be eliminated.
The
Treasurer's report was approved.
STANDING
COMMITTEES
A.
Awards/Nominating/Club Liaison
Donna
Pedrotti has ordered name badges for the new Unit 143 Board
members. She has also ordered trophies for the upcoming January
Sectional Tournament.
- Charity/Hospitality/Caddies
No
Report
- Education
No
report
- Membership
Via
e-mail, Steve Zenk reported a net loss of 14 members. Membership
count stands at 1074.
E.
Website
Jennifer
Luner reported over 1,300,000 hits to the web site over the
past year. The contract with the web hosting site has been
renewed.
- Publicity
Debbie
Romero has mailed out the postcards (about 1200) for the January
Sectional. Fliers for the tournament have been or will be
sent to the local clubs plus out of area clubs in Effingham,
Kansas City, Rolla, Columbia, etc. The flier is also posted
on the ACBL, District 8 and Unit 143 websites. Expense for
the postcards, fliers and postage totals $622.29.
- NAP/GNT
No
report
- 199er Tournament
Jane
Ettelson reported rooms at Maryland Heights have been reserved
for next year's Spring 199er tournaments. Jane said she would
investigate other sites to use in the Fall of 2009.
- Recording
Secretary/Bidding Boxes
No
report
- Vice President
No
Report.
- Tournament
Chairman
New
Business
Suzi
Shymanski-Moore made a proposal to replace the Unit 143
Disciplinarian Alan Popkin with a 3 person committee. She
has talked to Sandy Becker, George Hawley and Doug Moore
about the job. All three are interested. The committee would
have a head. The Board is in agreement with the concept
of the 3 person committee but thought that Doug Moore would
not be a good candidate because Doug and Suzi are married.
Several other names were mentioned as possible candidates
for the third position. Suzi will inquire as to their interest
and provide a list of candidates.
Suzi
asked the Board members to consider what goals they would
like to accomplish during the next year. Among the suggestions
were to amend the bylaws to clean up some problem areas
and to have committee heads provide a description of how
they perform their job duties.
Ed
Hale reported that Luke Lucas has written later to the Unit
143 Board about person in his area who may be petitioning
ACBL to become a director. This person has been disruptive
at some of Luke's games. No action was taken.
Old
Business
None
Meeting
Adjourned
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