DISTRICT 16 UNIT 207 SECRETARY’S REPORT JANUARY 9, 2007
Board Members Present: Linda Anthony, Laura Delfeld, Hal DeShong, Mary Anne Laier, Pat Long, Mark Mc
Allister, Diana Rogers and Phyllis Tate.
Chairman Present: Robert Donathan.
Mary Anne Laier, President brought the meeting to order at 3 PM and a quorum was established.
Secretary’s Report: The Secretary’s Report was unanimously approved.
Treasurer’s Report: Robert pointed out that the January Tournament made $3459.73 but approximately half that amount would go to the district for holding the NAP’s. Still, it was a huge turnout and making any profit is unusual for Sectionals.
Motion: A motion was made to purchase a time clock of some kind, which is needed particularly for the NAP events. The motion was unanimously approved. Pat Long will investigate the kind the unit will purchase and report back to the board.
Membership Chairman: Mark said that we now have 752 members.
Business Manager: Joe’s schedule was discussed in detail and the following board members signed up to provide food for the prospective events:
January 27 Open Pairs/Recognition Mary Anne Laier
February 3 Annual Unit Meeting Laura Delfeld
February 17 GNT Finals (2) No Meal Hal DeShong
March 24-25 NLM Sectional (3) Light Meal Phyllis Tate/Hal DeShong
April 14 Lone Arranger Linda Anthony
April 28 Pairs/Swiss (2) No Meal Mary Anne Laier
May 26 Ice Cream Social Joe Black
June 23 IMP Pairs Pat Long
Motion: There was a motion not to provide a light meal for 2 session events with the exception of the March NLM event, which was passed unanimously by the board.
New
Business: May
Sectional: Co-Chairmen: Phyllis Tate and Karen Snyder
The board agreed to continue the bracketed KO events (0-2000 and Open) but decided to provide a Side Pairs Game in the morning in case one of the brackets didn’t have enough teams. All Pairs games will be single-session events. The board decided that in the Swiss game, they wanted 6 rounds of 9 boards rather than 7 rounds of 7 boards.
New
Orleans Loan:
Mary Anne reported that Kevin asked if the board would loan the New Orleans supplies for their Regional on Memorial Day.
Motion: A motion to provide New Orleans with boards and
bidding boxes only for their Memorial Day Regional was unanimously approved by
the board.
McKenney
Medallions and Ace of Clubs Certificate:
Joe volunteered to research the cost, etc. for these awards.
Survey:
There was some discussion about composing a questionnaire regarding many topics but no decision was made.
Ballots:
Mark volunteered to make the ballots for the board election. Since the unit has disposed of its PO Box, Pat Long offered his PO box for the election. Mark will also seek approval for bulk mail rather than the usual 1st class mail.
Caddies:
Since we are adding a Pairs game in the morning of the unit’s Sectional Tournaments, a caddy will be needed. In light of the raise of the Minimum Wage by Congress, there was much discussion regarding raising the daily salary of the caddies.
Motion: There was a motion to raise the caddy’s salary from $25 to $35 per session and to raise Ruben’s from $40 to $55. It was unanimously passed.
The meeting adjourned at 3:55 PM.
Respectfully Submitted by,
Diana Rogers, Secretary