ACBL Unit 503 Meeting Minutes 10/02/06
The meeting was called to order by President Alan Cummings. All board members were present except Dave Bernstein and Alan Templeton, Mona Maltz, and Roy Robinson. Elinor Tanck was also present.
Administrative
September’s minutes were approved.
Elinor gave the Kibitzer report. It will be a 6-page issue.
Alan T. was absent, but he emailed us the treasurer’s report. The unit has a balance of $35290.90, and the bridge center has a balance of $17093.19. The relamping of the bridge center cost about $1300.
Alan C. gave the between-board-meetings news. We will give free plays to the 7 EZ bridge graduates.
Old Business
The revision of the constitution and by-laws will be posted at games. There will be a vote at the November 12th potluck.
Unit membership was +3 in August and +7 in September.
Really old business – Mr. Twister is in discussion with our landlord to get an extension of his lease. If he does, we will.
We have started active recycling at the bridge center. There was a question of what is recyclable. The answer is plastic, glass, and unsoiled (by food) paper.
Alan C. gave a carpet update. Right after the board meeting the carpets were due to be deep cleaned for about $600 (they are much better now).
We now have a full complement of candidates for the 2007 board. The candidates include Eric Mayefski, Maria Brabb, and Martie Moore plus the incumbents (Gabriella Bowling, Alan Cummings, Liz Blum, and Dave Wheeler) who are running again.
Alan C. is going to get a new speaker system for bridge center so we can have background music while we are playing. It will cost about $500 to buy and have installed. It should be a huge improvement over our current PA system.
New Business
Alan C. wants us to give free plays for graduates of junior games like Walter’s and Lori’s games. Gabriella will make certificates and take photos. We could also include new members.
Alan C. talked about the license agreement. The Tuesday night drop-in club signed, and Cameron will sign for his teaching. We will need other “independent contractors” like Lori Spaeth and Frank Smoot to sign for their center activities.
Chuck Lane will “host” the holiday party. We will have the ever popular Chef Chu’s again. Some felt we missed desserts last year, so we may have potluck desserts. Chuck will decide. We will also have an optional Toys-for-Tots drive. The party will be open to everyone with a limit of 130 people.
We decided to have a Goodwill Candidate (a division award). We had nominations, and the board will decide who to submit.
We are having Sportsmanship voting now. This year there will be two awards, one for sportsmanship and one for service to the unit. The sportsmanship committee is made up of previous winners.
Alan C. and the board decided we should buy 10 spare card tables, so we won’t have to scramble around to find extra tables when there is a special event. The faithful Supply Lackey was charged with going to buy them.
We then adjourned.
Dave Wheeler
Secretary