Minutes
Unit
143 Board Meeting
Jan.
9, 2008
(Approved
Feb 13, 2008)
President
John Samsel called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Present
were Board Members Donna Pedrotti, Ed Hale, Bob Wheeler, Jane
Ettleson, Mark Ludwig, Sandy Bigg, Debbie Romero, Sasanka
Ramanadham and Suzi Shymanski-Moore.
Absent
were Board members Sheryl Finkenstadt, Steve Zenk and Bob
Janis.
December
Minutes
The
December minutes were approved.
Corresponding
Secretary's Report
The
Unit 143 data base is still current as of January 1, 2008.
The ACBL In/Out reports dated 11/01/07, 12/01/07 and 01/01/08
have been posted. Steve Zenk will forward the reports each
month to update the data base.
Mailing
labels for Unit 143 players, Unit 223 players living close
to St Louis and Unit 15 players in the Jefferson City and
Columbia area with less than 200 master points have been delivered
to Jane Ettleson for the 199er tournament post cards.
Name
badges were ordered for new board members Debra Romero and
Sandy Bigg and for Suzi Shymanski-Moore.
Mini-McKenney
medals were ordered from ACBL.
Mailing
labels for players with less than 299 master points and who
had won at least 1 master point in 2007 were provided to Chuck
Starovasnik. He is planning a 299er game. Unit 143 was reimbursed
$5.13 for the cost of the labels.
A
list of new life masters from the November thru December 2007
Bulletins was provided to John Samsel. They will be awarded
their LM pins at the January sectional Tournament.
Treasurer's
Report
John
Samsel provided a copy of Bob Janis' Unit 143 balance sheet
as of December 31, 2007. This showed a balance of $3,072 in
the checking account. The unit has $35,927 in total current
assets. The report shows a loss of $1817.09 for the months
of October thru December. The Treasurer's report was approved.
STANDING
COMMITTEES
A.
Awards/Nominating/Club Liaison
Donna
Pedrotti said trophies are ready for the January Sectional
Tournament. The POTY award is ready. Some of the trophies
need new nameplates.
B.
Charity/Hospitality/Caddies
Left
over food from the January Sectional tournament will be donated
to the St. Charles Fire department.
C.
Education
Ed
Hale presented the Education Committee's guideline document
to evaluate requests for financial support by Unit 143 for
education programs such as Easy Bridge. The proposal was tabled
until next month. Board members will e-mail any comments to
Ed Hale.
D.
Membership
Steve
Zenk e-mailed his report to the board members. He reported
that Unit 143 has approximately 1050 members. For the year
of 2007, Unit 143 had new member gains of 11.6% which ranked
32 nd out of 304 ACBL units. New Life Masters were Carole
Benkelman and Dianne Glick.
Congratulations
to Jane Ettelson who made Bronze LM.
E.
Website
Sheryl
Finkenstadt e-mailed her report to the Board members. She
reported that the web site lists about 50 unique visitors
to the site each month. The most popular pages are the game
results page and the home page. There appears to be no problems
or difficulties with Site 5 (host server). Sheryl wants to
remind club owners that she will not be making any future
announcements of club game schedule changes unless the owners
request the announcements be made.
F. Publicity
Sasanka
reported that fliers for the August Regional Tournament have
been sent to Kansas City.
G.
NAP/GNT
No
report
H.
Recording Secretary/Bidding Boxes
No
report
I.
Vice President
No
Report.
J.
Tournament Chairman
Regional
schedule has been approved by the ACBL.
OLD
BUSINESS
The
Eight is Enough Unit Game franchise to Donna Coker is scheduled
to end after the March 2008 game. Donna Pedrotti will talk
with Donna Coker to see if she wants to continue with the
game. Motion made to charge a fee of $11.50 per game (same
as ACBL fee for regular game). The motion was approved.
NEW
BUSINESS
Debra
Romero was appointed Unit 143 representative to the District.
Sasanka
reported that Kansas City is still interested in the Bragging
Rights competition and will try to field a novice team for
the event. They still owe Unit 143 for their share of the
expenses for the last match. Part of problem is cost of vu-graph
used during last year's event.
Meeting
Adjourned at 8:20
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