DIRECTOR’S
MINUTES OF NOVEMBER 29, 2006
Agenda:
1) Call to Order. The
meeting of the Sylvan Lake Sailing Club Board of Directors was called to order
at 7:07 p.m. by the Commodore, Jim King. Present at the meeting were, Jim
Barkley,
2) Reading of the
previous minutes.
The meetings were made
available, by the Secretary
Minutes of the meeting
held September 30, 2006 were also provided for review by Commodore Jim King.
Tom Chapman motioned to
accept minutes of the two previous meetings as presented, seconded by Jim
Barkley.
3) Treasurers Report.: Jim Barkely
Current account balance
is at $16,887.77 with no outstanding receivables.
Donation
of $100.00 to Paula Carrins for
One bill has just
arrived from the AGM in amount of $1,000.00 from
4) Old Business:
Jim Barkley raised
questions at the previous meeting regarding the society, the act and why we are
a non-profit society given it costs about $100.00 per year. It was suggested
that Tom Chapman may have the answers. Tom was not in attendance and therefore,
the question was tabled for discussion at the next meeting.
Responds from Tom was
that being incorporated as non profit gives the club and executive the same
liability protection as being incorporated. That was all the board needed to
hear and discussion ended.
5) New Business:
Committee Reports
i) Harbour Master:
Tom Chapman
Tom
provided the board with a spreadsheet on slip allocation.
There
are 30 slips available to the club as per the lease with Marina Bay Home Owners
Association. One of these slips is reserved for the committee boat. There were
25 boats that qualified for Category 1. Six boats qualified for Category 2 and
there were five extra boats.
Much
discussion was held as to which boats currently in Category 2 would and would
not receive a slip. Once a resolution was made Tom Chapman was directed to
notify all boat owners of the Board’s decision in writing.
ii)
Sailing Committee:
Graham
had extensive presentation on 2007 sailing schedule which was very detailed and
full of great ideas. Graeme will now strike a committee from the membership and
implement these into the schedule for 2007.
iii)
Membership & Communication:
No
report.
iv) Judges
Committee:
Bill
Young expressed interest in being on committee.
v)
PHRF Committee:
Don
was not in attendance and no report was filed prior to the meeting.
vi) Solstice
Regatta: Doug Stewart
Doug
was not in attendance and no report was filed prior to the meeting.
vii)
End of Summer Hummer:
Barry
had nothing to report at this time.
viii)
Dinghy Division: Joan Moore
Presentation
by Nancy Smith and
Motion by Tom Chapman to support Dinghy Fleet and their
proposed clinic. Second by Jim Barkley
ix) Promotions
Committee:
Chris
was not in attendance and no report was filed prior to the meeting.
x)
LAMB Committee –
Steven
was not available, so report was presented by
Discussions
are on going with
Tom
mentioned that we have no provision in the lease for early termination. That
said it wouldn’t take much to get evicted even if the Marina Bay Homeowners
Association wanted us to stay.
6) Round Table:
Dennis talked about
courses in off season. GPS, Mark setting, weather, protest, race m
Post on web to entice
other club members to come as a way to off-set costs.
More course setting
with GPS, less course management. Date with Peter Van Muyden May 26.
Womens keel boat is in
Alberta Sport and
Recreation is hosting a seminar called 2007 Leadership Summit. The seminar is
for club executives to attend. There was discussion about the benefit to us. Blah…blah…blah. Once it was determined that the cost would
be born by the club or individual discussion turned to…well…everything else you
can imagine.
7) Tabled:
Discussions went
sideway as attention spans were maxed out. As a
result nothing was formally tabled.
8) Next meeting:
February 7, 2007 at 7:00.
Meeting adjourned 9:10
p.m.