June 2021

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes ACBL Unit 503
Thursday, June 10, 3 p. m, via zoom

Directors Present
Geraldine(Gerry) MacDonald, President, Marc Cervellino, Charlene Friedman, Jon Rayden, John Schwartz, Dan Thatte, Stephanie Youngquist

Others Present During All or Portions of the Meeting
Dianne Giancarlo, Lisa Koh, Kevin O’Leary, Eli Wismer

Call to Order

Gerry, President of the Board, served as Chair of the meeting. Gerry called the meeting to order and announced that a quorum of the Board members was present and that the meeting, having been duly convened, was ready to proceed with business. Gerry confirmed that all participants could hear one another.

Approval of Meeting Minutes

The Board reviewed and amended the minutes of the meeting held on May 13, 2021. John Schwartz moved to approve and Charlene Friedman seconded.

Dan Thatte presented a recommendation from the nominating committee to add Eli Wismer to the board to fill out the remaining months of Shankar Iyer’s term. His motion was seconded by Stephanie Youngquist and approved by the board.

PBEF has approved financial support for the initial updates to the bridge center. We are grateful for this generous donation.

Financial Update

Marc presented a detailed financial update providing a summary of our online game participation for the past 5 months. Overall our table counts represent a downward trend in online play.

Marc also discussed a proposal to charge PBEF for the following items:

Rental of the Bridge Center for the Lecture Series

Rent of the library space to house the inventory of educational library books

Other education related expenditures such as youth discounts and free play coupons.

Marc made a motion to pursue these charges, it was seconded by John Schwartz and approved by the board.

Re-opening plans

Various reopening plans were discussed including carpeting, supplies, new computer for the card dealing machine and an opening day welcome back event. The board approved $1500 to support the various reopening needs.

Learning from other clubs around the country that have reopened, the board also suggested to the game owners that they consider running a pilot game in the next few weeks as a way to make sure everything at the bridge center is working. John Schwartz will discuss with game owners.

As the workload for the board has increased in the last few months, the nominating committee will be investigating perhaps adding a few new members to the board. Dan Thatte is the chair of the nominating committee.

The next meeting will be Thursday July 8 at 3 pm.  Please note the change in date.

Adjourn

A motion to adjourn was made by Jon Rayden and seconded by John Schwartz. The meeting was adjourned at 4:45 pm.