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Minutes
Unit
143 Board Meeting
April
11, 2007
Approved
May 9, 2007
Vice
President Mary Hruby called the meeting to order at 7:00pm.
Also present were Board members Donna Pedrotti, Sheryl Finkenstadt
Sasanka Ramanadham, Steve Zenk, Mark Ludwig, Bob Janis and
Bob Wheeler. Absent were Jennifer Luner, John Samsel, Ed Hale,
Jane Ettelson and Suzi Shymanski-Moore. Also present was Mike
Carmen.
February
Minutes
Sheryl
Finkenstadt motioned and Donna Pedrotti seconded motion to
approve the January minutes. The motion was approved.
Corresponding
Secretary's Report
The
unit 143 data base is current as of March 1, 2007. The 2006
Mini-McKenney medals have been received from Baron Barclay
Bridge are being held for presentation at the May Sectional
Tournament. Sanction numbers for the 2007 Unit games were
given to Donna Coker. Obituary notices for Pat Catalano, Bill
Kauffman and Charles Eisenburg were mailed to ACBL. The 2007
Player of the Year standings have been updated with the results
from the April 1 Unit Game. A list of players not in Unit
143 was e-mailed to Sasanka Ramanadham. Players on this list
will be mailed postcards advertising the May Sectional Tournament.
The report was approved.
Treasurer's
Report
Bob
Janis provided a copy of the Unit 143 balance sheet as of
March 31, 2007. This showed a balance of $4,655 in the checking
account. About $1200 from the EIGHT IS ENOUGH game and from
ACBL membership fees need to be added to the balance. The
unit has a loss of about $14,861 for the year. This loss is
primarily due to the $12,500 being provided to help fund the
March NABC Tournament. The Treasurer's report was approved.
STANDING
COMMITTES
- Awards/Nominating/Club
Liaison
Donna
Pedrotti has the trophies for the upcoming 0-199 Tournament.
Trophies for the May Sectional Tournament have been ordered.
- Charity/Hospitality/Caddies
No
report
- Education/Knockouts
Sasanka
Ramanadham stated that because of space limitations, the A
bracket qualifying round will start in the afternoon rather
than in the morning. The morning session will start at 10:30
AM.
- Membership
Steve
Zenk reported a net gain of 31 new members in March. He attributes
the large increase to the March NABC in St Louis. We presently
have about 1047 members in Unit 143.
E.
NAOP/GNT
No
report
- Website
Sheryl
Finkenstadt indicated that things are going well.
- Publicity
Sasanka
Ramanadham said that 350 postcards have been sent to neighboring
units for the upcoming May Sectional tournament. He is also
working with ACBL to e-mail May Sectional Tournament advertisement
to Unit 143 membership.
Sasanka
also said the post cards for the August Regional Tournament
are ready to mail. He needs to input from Mike Carmen before
placing the Regional advertisement in the June and July editions
of the Bridge Bulletin.
Sasanka
indicated there has been a problem with sending our advertisements
to ACBL in WORD format. Apparently the ACBL can handle PDF
format better. We need to consider the purchase of program
to enable Unit 143 to send our advertisements to ACBL in the
PDF format.
- Membership/199er
Tournament
The
199er tournament is set for Saturday April 28, 2007. Jane
Ettelson will assist Mary Hruby in running the tournament.
- Recording
Secretary/Bidding Boxes
No
report
- Vice President
The
initial EIGHT IS ENOUGH unit game was very successful. Seventeen
teams participated. The next game is scheduled for April 29.
A caddy will be at the next game. Snacks will also be improved.
- Tournament
Chairman
Mike
Carmen presented his budget and event schedule for the May
Sectional tournament. Several schedule changes include 2 one
session Open pair events on Saturday instead of 1 two session
Open pair event and separate 299er Swiss event on Sunday.
Mike budget for the weekend projects a $2 profit for the weekend
event.
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NEW
BUSINESS
Mary
Hruby indicted that Donna Coker is not available to run
the Pro-Am. Mary indicated she will get a room and director
for the event. Pro-Am pairings will be by random drawing.
Motion
was made by Donna Pedrotti and seconded by Sasanka Ramanadham
to allow players with fewer than 5 master points to play
for free in the Friday night novice game at the May Sectional
Tournament. The motion passed
Meeting
Adjourned at 8:24 PM
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