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Minutes
Unit
143 Board Meeting
May
14, 2008
(Approved
June 11, 2008)
President
John Samsel called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Present
were Board members Bob Janis, Bob Wheeler, Sheryl Finkenstadt,
Donna Pedrotti, Mark Ludwig, Jane Ettelson, Steve Zenk, Debbie
Romero and Sasanka Ramanadham . Absent were Board members
Sandy Bigg, Suzi Shymanski-Moore, and Ed Hale. Also present
was Mike Carmen.
April
Minutes
The
April minutes were approved with minor changes.
Corresponding
Secretary's Report
The
Unit 143 data base is current as of May 1, 2008.
The
2008 POTY report will be updated after the June 1 st Unit
Game. The report will be e-mailed to Milt Zlatic and Sheryl
Finkenstadt.
Obituary
notices for Lorraine Gass, Betty Szoko and Carole Zang were
mailed to ACBL.
Printed
mailing labels were sent to Chuck Starovasnik. He was billed
for the materials.
Printed
a report of new life masters from the February thru May Bulletins
for John Samsel.
Treasurer's
Report
Bob
Janis provided a copy of the Unit 143 balance sheet as of
April 30, 2008. This showed a balance of $ 5,227 in the checking
account. The unit has $35,494 in current assets. The report
shows a loss of $2,250 for the months of October 2007 thru
April 2008. The report was approved.
STANDING
COMMITTEES
A.
Awards/Nominating/Club Liaison
Donna
Pedrotti has trophies for the May Sectional Tournament. She
noted that the manufacture of marble bases for the trophies
is to be discontinued. She would like to order $300-400 worth
of bases while they are still available. Her request was approved.
- Charity/Hospitality/Caddies
No
Report
- Education
No
report
D.
Membership
Steve
Zenk reported 10 new members and a loss of 6 members. Our
membership count stands at 1064.
E.
Website
Sheryl
Finkenstadt reported there was an average of 11,811 hits per
month for the last 2 months on web site pages. She also sent
e-mails to eleven club owners to gauge their interest in hosting
an IMP pair unit game. In response, she received 6 No's, 3
maybe's, and 1 definite Yes.
- Publicity
Sasanka
Ramanadham provided flyers for the upcoming St Louis KO and
Regional Tournaments. These flyers are for the club owners.
The advertisement for the upcoming Regional has been sent
to ACBL for inclusion in the June and July Bulletins.
- NAP/GNT
No
report
- !99er Tournament
No
Report
- Recording
Secretary/Bidding Boxes
No
report
- Vice President
No
Report.
- Tournament
Chairman
Mike
Carmen revised his budget to include both the Easy Bridge
and the kid's game to be held on Saturday afternoon May 17
at the upcoming Sectional Tournament. Mike' revised budget
shows a loss of about $330. Mike also indicated that wireless
scoring machines will be tried at the Sectional Tournament.
These machines will be used in place of the paper travelers.
New
Business
Some
people in Jefferson City and Columbia have informally expressed
interest in leaving the Kansas City Unit and rejoining Unit
143. Since no official request has been received, no decision
was reached.
Old
Business
John
Samsel sent an e-mail to Alan Popkin requesting that he
expedite hearing on player who caused a recent problem at
Beth Percich's game and at Donna Coker's game several months
ago. The player has been banned from Donna Coker's games.
Meeting
Adjourned at 8:15 PM
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