August 2021

Board of Directors Meeting Minutes ACBL Unit 503
Thursday, Aug 12,  2021 3:30 p. m, via zoom

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

Others Present During All or Portions of the Meeting
Diane Giancarlo
Lisa Koh
Alan Templeton
Trish Steele

Call to Order

Gerry, President of the Board, served as Chair of the meeting. Gerry called the meeting to order at 3:31 pm 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

Gerry announced that the minutes of the July 8th meeting were approved via email.

Financial Update

Marc presented an extensive comprehensive review of our financials to-date. Overall we are holding steady, but projecting losses as we continue through the year.  F2F tables counts are low and online participation has dropped.

There has been no F2F play on weekends. Combined tables counts are down for the last 5 weeks. 

The unexpected increases in Covid cases are possibly affecting F2F play. The current conditions require patience and continued reminders to our membership about available opportunities to play.

Many alternatives to increase participation both for online and F2F play were discuss.  Bringing back food, snacks and coffee, could possibly help with F2F participation. Jon Raydon suggested using a food truck/trucks on the plaza and he will be researching suggestions on possibilities. 

Mark proposed that the Board approve seeking PBEF funding for $1,300 for the furniture recently purchased by the Unit plus an undetermined amount of money for the laptop computer purchased by Will for the Unit. Motion so moved, seconded and passed.

Non-Life Master Update

We are proceeding with the Non Life Master Sectional scheduled for Sept. 18-19. 

Web sign-ups are very light at this point and a broader advertising email will be sent to the entire district to spread the news.

Annual Meeting

As required in the Unit bylaws, we need to hold one annual meeting, open to the membership, per year. We agreed to try to start one of our zoom educational lectures before the end of the year, as an annual meeting. This will be a very brief update to members. Eli will follow-up with a suggestion as to when.

The next meeting will be Thursday Sept. 9 at 3:30 pm.

A motion was made, seconded and passed to adjourn. The meeting was adjourned  at 5:11 pm.