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Unit
143 Board Meeting Minutes
January
14, 2009
President
Suzi Shymanski-Moore called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.
Present were Bob Wheeler, Bill Bunn, Bobby Riggs, Donna Pedrotti,
Jennifer Luner, Carl Clyne, Steve Zenk, Carol Benkelman, and
Jane Ettelson. Absent were Ed Hale, Jackie Baker, Bob Janis,
and Debra Romero.
December
Minutes
The
December minutes were approved.
Corresponding
Secretary's Report
The
database was down loaded on January 9 th from ACBL to replace
the Unit 143 database. This will be done monthly.
The
2009 POTY standings were updated with the results of the January
4 th unit game. A report will be e-mailed to Milt Zlatic for
posting on the unit website after the January 11 th unit game
and the January Sectional.
At
the request of Lee Hastings, Sanctions for the November and
December 2008 Unit games were submitted and received from
ACBL.
At
the request of Jane Ettelson, mailing labels for the March
199er game were printed.
Mini-McKenney
medallions were received on January 7 th and given to Suzi
Shymanski-Moore.
At
the request of Donna Coker mailing labels were printed for
postcards advertising her club's new location. Donna was billed
the cost of these labels.
Prepared a list of new
life masters from the November, and December 2008 and January
2009 Bulletins. LM pins will be awarded to these people at the
January Sectional Tournament.
Treasurer's
Report
No
report
Standing
Committees
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Awards/Nominating /Club Liaison
Donna
Pedrotti has trophies and awards for the January Sectional.
She will order awards for the March 199er game.
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Charity/hospitality/Caddies
No
Report
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Education
No
Report
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Membership
Steve
Zenk reported a net increase of 4 members. Membership count
stands at 1078. Steve also provided a copy of the QUIP Report
for the 12 month period ending December 31, 2008. This report
Unit 143 compares with both the District and ACBL in areas
such as new membership gains (9.78 % 1 st in District &
82 nd in ACBL) and losses (7.6% 2 nd in District &185
th in ACBL), average member age (67.48), years in ACBL (19.55),
and new member retention rate (65.6 2 nd in District &
94 th in ACBL) .
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Website
Jennifer
Luner reported that the website had 12,153 hits since the
last meeting.
Information
for the upcoming STAC week and 199er Tournament has been posted
on line. Jennifer is going to check on price for software
upgrade. A discussion was held on ways to get more questions
for the ASK THE EXPERT (ATE) section on the web. The proposed
solution is to try more advertising on the website. Also the
number of experts will be reduced from 10 down to 5 or 6.
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Publicity
Via
e-mail Debra Romero reported that all publicity for the January
Sectional had been completed. All
unit, district and ACBL websites were posted. Postcards were
mailed and flyers were distributed to clubs in St. Louis and
surrounding areas.
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NAP/GNT
No
report
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199er Tournament
Jane
Ettelson reported that 700 postcards for the March 7 th 199er
tournament have been mailed to players with less than 200
points in the St Louis area, eastern Illinois, Columbia and
Rolla. Fliers for the tournament have been sent to club directors
in these areas. Information for the tournament has been posted
on both the ACBL and Unit 143 websites. Reservation requests
have been made 4 pairs.
Arrangements
have been made with both Mark Ehert and Sheryl Finkenstadt
to speak at the January Sectional Tournament.
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Bidding Boxes
No
report
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Vice President
No
report
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Tournament Chairman
No
report
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Bragging Rights Match
Prior
to the meeting Bill Bunn provided a Conditions of Contest
document for Board review. The Board approved his document.
Bill will confer with Maryland Heights to determine starting
times for the Sunday sessions. Bill will request sanction
and director from ACBL fro the upcoming Bragging Rights match.
Old
Business
Suzi
Shymanski-Moore provided a list of 3 candidates for the Disciplinary
committee. They are Sandy Becker, Carol Hamilton and George
Hawley. George would be the committee chairman. The Unit 143
Board approved these 3 candidates.
New
Business
Steve
Zenk provided a proposed bylaw change to Article VIII to clarify
who may be eligible for election to either President or Vice
President of the Unit 143 Board. After some discussion, the
Board decided that the present Article VIII is clear and that
no change is required.
Via
e-mail, Jackie Baker stated she had a conversation with Donna
Coker concerning the lunch break during the Sunday Swiss events
at our sectional Tournaments. Because the 0-299er event is
held as 2 separate four round events, it would be better if
the lunch could be served between the after the fourth round
instead of the fifth round. The item was tabled and will be
considered for the May Sectional Tournament .
Meeting
Adjourned 8:45 PM
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