ACBL Unit 503 Meeting Minutes 2/7/06
The meeting was called to order by President Alan Cummings. All board members were present except John Hornback and Mona Maltz. Will Watson and Elinor Tanck were also present.
Last meeting’s minutes were approved with corrections.
Elinor gave the Kibitzer report and mentioned that the regional will delay distribution.
Alan Templeton gave another in-depth treasurer’s report. The Unit balance was $30,985.51 ($25,393.70 in the Unit savings account, $5,701.81 in the Unit checking account). The Bridge Center balance was $20,112.39.
Dave B. made a Forum article announcement. It was a plea for input – particularly from the Regional.
Alan C. discussed between-board-meeting business that he took care of. Alan gave his okay for Cameron Cotton to give monthly lessons. He also gave the cleaning crew a $50 per month increase ($650). The cleaning crew did not realize that they were dealing with 7-day-per-week fanatics, and their original fee was for 5 days per week. The carpet will be cleaned during the Regional for $350. Alan C. also naively said that if he sent email to the board members asking for their approval or disapproval of an item, that he expected a response from each board member.
Old Business
Roy gave a report on the status of our owner license agreement for those games in the bridge center. It is essentially done, and Roy will send it out to the appropriate owners. He expects to have each agreement signed and returned by the end of March. Any owners who do not sign the agreement will not be able to have their games at bridge center.
One interesting fact that will have to be resolved concerns the insurance as mentioned in the license agreement. The insurance in the amount of 1 million per incident and 2 million total coverage only applies to owners who are members of our unit.
We discussed space planning next. Apparently, we can rent 250 additional square feet (10 feet by 25 feet) from Mr. Twister for $1.856/sq. foot. This would be $460 per month and $5568 per year. Cost of necessary changes would be about $5000 dollars. The board made no final decision about this added space.
We discussed the Firecracker Sectional. Roy and John visited the Hyatt (near Great America) and found that space may be a little tight though we probably could use an additional room if necessary. The rental fee is $8000 (as opposed to $7500 last year), and the table fees will be $9.00.
We discussed Early-Bird Bridge. Things look a little bleak. There was only 1 table at the last game, and no table fees were collected. The board decided to wait until the first week in March to see how things progress. On the plus side, a few of the participants have played in other games.
Roy passed out a schedule of the first 6 unit games. On the schedule was a list of the unit games from last year, and how many pairs played in each game. Aside from the holiday dinner game, Swiss team games were the most popular games. The dates of the next 5 unit games for this year are as follows:
2/26/06 Swiss Teams
3/19/06 Mixed Pairs
4/16/06 Charity Pairs
5/21/06 Pro-Am Pairs
6/25/06 Flighted Pairs
The remaining 5 games have, as yet, no distinguishing characteristics but will be on
8/6/06
9/17/06
10/15/06
11/12/06
12/3/06
New Business
There will be a District 21 Board Meeting on February 18th. Gabriella and Alan C. will attend.
We discussed insurance for the board. We have none (it was not renewed). We will get some, which will run through November 30th. We will get it from the same broker (Nelson & Nelson) as the one who insures the Center.
We briefly discussed the annual membership meeting, which Unit 503 members enthusiastically ignore. It will be in March.
We then adjourned.
Dave Wheeler
Secretary