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Minutes
Unit
143 Board Meeting
March
12 , 2008
(Approved
April 9, 2008)
President
John Samsel called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Present
were Board members Bob Janis, Bob Wheeler, Sheryl Finkenstadt,
Sandy Bigg, Donna Pedrotti, Suzi Shymanski-Moore and Sasanka
Ramanadham. Absent were Board Members Steve Zenk, Debbie Romero,
Ed Hale, Mark Ludwig and Jane Ettelson.
February
Minutes
The
February minutes were approved.
Corresponding
Secretary's Report
The
Unit 143 data base is still current as of March 1, 2008.
The
2008 POTY report was updated to include results of the March
Unit Game. The report has been e-mailed to Milt Zlatic and
Sheryl Finkenstadt.
An
obituary notice for Mary Jane Kirsner was mailed to ACBL.
Treasurer's
Report
Bob
Janis provided a copy of the Unit 143 balance sheet as of
February 29, 2008. This showed a balance of $ 5,450 in the
checking account. The unit has $35,712 in current assets.
The report shows a loss of $2,033 for the months of October
2007 thru February 2008. Bob noted that some expenses have
been prepaid for future tournaments. Also the 199er tournament
made some money. The report was approved.
STANDING
COMMITTEES
A.
Awards/Nominating/Club Liaison
No
Report
- Charity/Hospitality/Caddies
No
report.
- Education
No
report
D.
Membership
Steve
Zenk e-mailed his report to the board members. He reported
an increase of 4 members in Unit 143. Total membership stands
at 1057.
E.
Website
Sheryl
Finkenstadt reported that the web site lists about 60 unique
visitors to the site each month. The most popular pages in
order are the home page, the game results page and the library.
There were 9843 hits on web site pages for the period of 2/15/2008
thru 3/12/2008.
Sheryl
would like to remind directors that she is usually available
to make emergency “Game Changes/Cancellation” notices before
9:00 AM. However she is not usually logged on at that time
and will therefore require a telephone call to make any requested
changes.
The
Date book has been completely transferred to the web.
- Publicity
Sasanka
Ramanadham has the flyers ready for the August Regional. He
also made a suggestion to send post cards for the May Sectional,
the Bragging Rights qualifying, and the Regional Tournaments
in one mailing. His suggestion was approved.
- NAP/GNT
No
report
- Recording
Secretary/Bidding Boxes
No
report
- Vice President
No
Report.
- Tournament
Chairman
No
report
OLD
BUSINESS
Sasanka
Ramanadham reported on the Bragging Rights Match. The St
Louis qualifying matches will be held on the weekend of
July 12 & 13 at Maryland Heights. The rental will be
$450. Sanction for the game has been received.
Alan
Popkin will provide a projector for the finals of the Bragging
Rights match at the August Regional.
The
Eight is Enough Unit Game franchise to Donna Coker is scheduled
to end after the March 2008 game. Donna will have to pay
all appropriate ACBL fees if the Eight is Enough Game is
to remain a Unit Game. She is free to continue the game
as a regular game if she so wishes.
NEW
BUSINESS
A
special session will be held on Saturday afternoon at the
May Sectional Tournament. Sasanka outlined a plan to have
session that will include 5 tables of Easy Bridge players
and a group of middle school students (40-45) from the Edwardsville-Effingham
areas. The students may be playing to qualify for the National
Youth Tournament in July in Atlanta. The students are being
taught by Chris Shaw. The plan is to have food (pizza/salad)
after the game and trophies for the winners. Budget for
these items will be discussed next month. A speaker is also
planned to educate the kids about Bridge etiquette.
Sasanka
presented the results of a survey taken at the January Sectional
Tournament regarding starting times for the Saturday KO
event. Captains of the teams were polled and a stating time
of 9:30 AM was preferred to 9:00 AM by a 16-4 vote. We also
discussed changing starting times to 1:30 PM and 7:00PM
for the pair events on Friday and Saturday. The item was
tabled until next month so that input from Mike Carman can
be obtained.
Alan
Popkin is to convene a hearing on the problem at a recent
game of Donna Coker. She has banned the player from her
games.
Meeting
Adjourned at 8:08 PM
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