ACBL Unit 503 Minutes, July 7th, 2009
Present were Phyllis Gaffney, David Wheeler, Jeannette McNeil, Elinor Tanck, Alan Templeton, Steve Lubeck , Betsy Steele, Eric Mayefsky, Grant Spaeth, Mike Atherton and Susana Krulevitch. Also present was Alan Cummings.
The Board welcomed Betsy Steele.
Bridge Center Rehabilitation Update – Alan Cummings briefly mentioned, with respect to the ongoing flood rehabilitation situation, that our attorney had just returned from a two week vacation. She will be in contact with Twister’s Attorney very shortly to continue efforts to resolve the matters in dispute.
Carpooling –Alan Cummings suggested a Board meeting to come up with a carpooling program. Hopefully someone will step up to work on such a program. We should show Cities of Mountain View and Palo Alto our good intent to cut down on parking requirements. There might be a raffle for carpoolers. Bob Lawrence checked our file and found that the City of Mountain View reserves the right to review our file regarding parking.
Firecracker – The Board congratulated Steve Lubeck on another very successful tournament. A new attendance record was set with 1050 tables, up 14.5% from last year’s 917 tables. It was the second largest Sectional in the country last year and may have been the largest this year. We made a profit of about $5200, up from last year’s $3755. Revenue was up but so were costs. The Directors did a good job and ran a smooth tournament. Credit is due to Committee Chairs Phyllis Gaffney, Steve Barasch, Fran Bennett and Carolyn Lemm. Thanks to Marian Kelly who contacted and mailed flyers to every Unit in D21, and to Alan Templeton for working out the daily posting of results to our website. There were some complaints about non-availability of coffee, caddy dress code and not enough chocolates. It was suggested that next year we inform players when coffee is available. It was further suggested that next year we try again to get the hotel for the tournament and that the C classification be moved up to 750 in open pair games. Owen Merry was mentioned as an outstanding caddy. Will try and get feed-back from Nancy Boyd regarding Compact Knock-Out game, Consolation round drop-outs and other scheduling improvements.
Minutes from June were approved.
Elinor passed out copies of the QUIP report for a twelve month period ending June 30, 2009. She informed the Board that 400 copies were printed of this Kibitzer and 350 will be printed the next issue.
Alan Templeton gave the Treasurer’s Report: The Unit is down $1,168 for the month of June and $4,828 for the year. Main checking account is down to $400. Unit games made $819.
There is $30,875 in the Bridge Center account. Table count is still 14% below last year. Bridge Center got a new dishwasher. Bridge Center lost $3000 in income because of the pipe break.
Education Fund has $2098 in account. Total Education Fund assets held by ACBL are $11,480.
District 21 has an election for Second Alternate to the Board of Directors. It was voted and approved that we get more information on each candidate and vote individually on line.
Unit Game Report – Phyllis and Eric – There were 14 tables last Monday.
August 23rd – Contact Knock Out, 2 sessions: first round plus Consolation plus Swiss.
Possible times 11:00 to 3:30. Eric will work out time. Players to pay once for 2 sessions.
September 20th – Unit Game. Swiss game – Open and 99’ers.
October 18th – Barometer. Inquire if Mentor/Mentee teams would like a special section.
November 1st – Potluck, pairs.
December 20th – Holiday party, pairs.
Sunshine – Phyllis is doing a great job contacting people who are ill or have lost a relative. She passed out a list of names of all the people she has contacted.
Elinor informed us that we the Unit got 21 new members, which brings our membership to 826.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:25.
Respectfully submitted,
Susana Krulevitch
Secretary