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SLAGA Board MeetingApril 4, 2016
7pm, St. Louis Bread Company, South Grand, St. Louis, MO

Call to order 7:09pm

Attendance: Kathy DeWitt, Pete Shaw, Tony Colter, Wendy Neal, Laura Million, Dave DeWitt

The March 3, 2016 Board Meeting minutes were read. A motion to approve the March 3, 2016 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes was make by Tony Colter and seconded by Pete Shaw. The Board unanimously approved the Minutes.

The March Treasurers’ Report will be tabled until next month.

Old Business

• Brochure – Pete Shaw reports that the SLAGA brochure is coming along.
• Newsletter –
  • The Spring newsletter will be coming out on May 2^nd. Laura needs all articles by April 25^th.
  • Pete Shaw will report on MOGA award results by SLAGA members.
  • Kathy DeWitt will write the “Letter from the President.”
  • Laura Million will write about the OK Road Trip.
  • Laura Million will write about Upcoming events.
  • Pete Shaw will write about the Spring Picnic.
  • Wendy Neal will provide pictures from the CITO events.
• Past Events
  • Pi Day – went well and was well attended. Wendy Neal noted that Eckert’s likes our group and would like us to return. She would also like to place a cache at Eckert’s.
• Upcoming Events
  • CITO
    • 4-16-16: Imperial Pet Cemetery 10am - 12:30pm
    • 4-16-16: St. Charles Frontier Park - 12:45pm - 4pm
    • 4-17-16: Lower Meramec 1pm - 3pm
    • Dave DeWitt will try to get one in Illinois For April 23 or 24
    • Wendy Neal will order 10 coins to give away at each SLAGA sponsored event.
• Spring Picnic – May 7, 2016 at Clydesdale Park – Laura MacLeod, Korriaan, will host. She has nothing new to report.

SLAGA will provide the following prizes:

• Raffle give aways – Kathy DeWitt will order bison tubes to give away.
• Bingo Game – 3-$10 gift certificates.
• Ammo can toss – 2 ammo cans for prizes; one for men’s competition and one for women’s competition.
• Closest to Pin - $10 gift card
• McDonald's gift certificate for kids games
• Nested ammo can - $10 gift certificate
• TB tags – Wendy Neal will order 10 travel bug tags to sell at the picnic.
• Dave DeWitt will order a couple of Geocaching books for raffle.
• Premium Members attendance prices 3-$25 certificates
• Kathy DeWitt will check on the Nomination forms – (one year and two year elections) & Jar for the nominations.
• Food – Kathy DeWitt will get food: hotdogs, brats, and hamburgers, based on attendance.
• Pete Shaw will pick up ice and water.
• Wendy Neal will pick up buns based on the number of hotdogs, brats, and hamburgers.
• Kathy DeWitt and Pete Shaw will inventory truck and make purchases as necessary.
• Summer Picnic – July 16, 2016 will be held at Arnold City Park.
  • Pete Shaw reports that the park is open and will look at pavilion.
• CITO – Sept 17-25 – No new information
• Fall Picnic – Tony will get a date and reserve the pavilion.
• GCF – Oct 15 – No new news
• Halloween Event – will be held at Creve Coeur Lake along with the Grave Yard Hop.
• Classes
  • Geocaching 101 – May 21, 2016 – St. Louis County Library: Grants View Branch. More information to be announced.
  • GSAK 101 – will not be held for a while
  • GSAK 201 – will not be held for a while
  • Publishing – Dave DeWitt will call for a location. Tony Colter will select the date for event.
  • St. Charles County camp – Pete Shaw will contact the organizer and will report back.
  • Boy Scout – No new requests for Merit Badge.
• SLAGA coin
  • Christmas coin – enough have been sold so SLAGA is close to break even on cost. No new coins sold and can be sold at Geocoinfest.
  • Leap Day – Kathy DeWitt reports that she possibly has one one left. It will be put on raffle table at the Spring picnic.
  • SLAGA Coin - no inspiration, no new information.
  • Path Tag account – there is money in our Path Tag Account. Kathy DeWitt will check on it.
• Road trips
  • Oklahoma June 2 – 6, 2016 – nothing new. Laura Million will send another email blast announcing it.
  • Jack Daniels Geotrail – nothing new to report.

New Business

• St. Louis Count Park 100 year anniversary – on hold for now. Kathy DeWitt will check on details and report at another Board meeting
• Geotrail – A discussion was held about SLAGA creating a GeoTrail. Lewis & Clark was suggested as a subject. Wendy Neal will check with the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Hartford IL about a possible start location. Dave DeWitt will check on the rules and policies for Geotrails.
• It was brought up that some organizations are giving geo coins for Fizzy and other challenges. After a discussion, the board decided that there are too many people that have completed challenges to be cost effective.
• Laura will send a sympathy card to Team DLADL on the death of David’s wife.
• Laura will send a sympathy card to Charlotte Scheffold on the death of her sister.
• Tech corner – Dave DeWitt announced that the old domain name of geostl.com is up for renewal and asked if SLAGA should renew old domain name or let it expire. The board agreed that we should extend it for another year because some other websites may be linking to the old URL rather than the current one and we don’t want them to have a broken link.
• Updating software for Joomla – Dave DeWitt will check on pricing to upgrade the software for Joomla. Wendy Neal motioned that Dave DeWitt can spend up to $200 to upgrade software. Tony Colter seconded the motion. The Board unanimously approved the motion.
• A recently married member with a lifetime individual membership asked how his new wife could be added to a lifetime family membership. After a discussion, the board agreed that membership can upgrade from Individual Lifetime to Family Lifetime with the increase of the difference of $50. This will only be for Lifetime memberships and not yearly memberships.

Adjourned: 8:34pm

Next meeting Monday May 2 6pm St. Louis Bread Co, South Grand

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SLAGA Board Meeting
March 3, 2016
6pm St. Louis Bread Company, South Grand, St. Louis, MO

Called to order:   6pm

Attendance: Kathy DeWitt, Pete Shaw, Tony Colter, Laura Million

December Minutes: The December 7, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes were read. A motion to approve the December 7, 2015 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes was made by Laura Million and seconded by Pete Shaw. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

February Minutes: The February 1, 2016 Board Meeting Minutes were read. Pete Shaw stated to change St. Louis County to St. Charles County for the Park Camp event this summer. A motion to approve the February 1, 2016 Board Meeting Minutes with suggested changes was made by Pete Shaw and seconded by Laura Million. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Treasurer’s report: Treasurer’s report from February 2016 was read. A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Laura Million and second by Pete Shaw. The Board unanimously approved the Treasurer’s report.

Old Business

• Brochures: Pete Shaw reported that the brochures were coming along. He just needed to add pictures.
• Newsletter/email-blast:
  • CITO
    • Laura McLeod, Korriaan will host the April 17 CITO in the afternoon.
    • Mark Derr, Hobbit Taz will hope the April 16 CITO in the afternoon.
    • Odd Intentions will host the April 16, CITO at Frontier Par, St. Charles from 12:30pm – 4pm
    • We still need CITO events for 2^nd weekend of April 23^rd and 24^th.
• Pi Day Event will be held at Erkert’s in Belleville. Wendy Neal will host the event and publish the event page.
• Spring Picnic – The Milestone deadline is April 7^th. The first Milestone email will be sent on March 7^th and a second email reminder will be sent on March 21^st. The final email reminder will be sent on April 4^th .
• Newsletter – The Spring Newsletter will go out on May 2^nd. Laura will need all articles to by April 25^th.
• Past events-recap:

Leap Day – we had a good turnout and the event went well. Leap Day Geocoins were sold out to Premium members before event.

• Upcoming events:

PI day – March 14^th, Erkert’s Belleville

CITO – April 16-24, 2016

Laura McLeod, Korriaan – April 17^th, St. Louis County Parks

Mark Derr, Hobbit Taz – April 16^th, Pet Cemetery

Odd Intentions – April 16^th, Frontier Park

Spring Picnic – May 7, 2016

                Laura McLeod, Korriaan, will publish cache page by March 14

Summer Picnic 2016 will be Sometime in July

                Shaw Park – big corporate pavilion costs $500 to rent. The two smaller pavilions $200 each total $400. After a short discussion, the board decided to look at another park. SLAGA usually does not spend that much for meet and greet summer picnics. Other park recommended were Forest Park, Tower Grove, Lewis & Clark Confluence in IL, Arnold City Park, Pere Marquette.

CITO – September 17-25, 2016. No new information.

Fall Picnic 2016 – Possible location will be Robertville State Park. No update on the Fall picnic.

Geocoinfest – October 15, 2016, no new information.

Halloween Event 2016, no new information.

• Classes:
  • Geocaching 101 – SLAGA had a request for class in Belleville area – Kathy will have the requester look for sites.
  • GSAK 201 – Will check for dates and times again for the fall.
  • Publishing – Tony will check in April for a date. Kathy will check with South Grand Library for a location.
  • St. Charles County Camps – Pete will pick the dates and will send word out on Facebook for help.
  • Boy Scouts – SLAGA was contacted for stuff for goody bags. We don’t have anything at this time.
• SLAGA coin sales:
  • Christmas coin – we have about25 left that we will sell at Geocoinfest.
  • Leap day – All coins were sold out at the pre-sale.
  • SLAGA coin – no new information.

New Business

• Road trips
  • Oklahoma June 2-6, 2016 – Kathy DeWitt and Laura Million are planning the trip.
  • Jack Daniels – Kathy DeWitt will organize this trip for fall.

Adjourned: 7:04pm.    

Next meeting Monday April 4, 2016, 6pm St. Louis Bread Company        

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Called to order: 6:13pm

Attendance: Kathy DeWitt, Tony Colter, Pete Shaw, Wendy Neal, Laura Million, Dave DeWitt.

The January 7, 2016 Board Meeting Minutes were read. A motion to approve the January 7, 2016 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes was made by Laura Million and seconded by Pete Shaw. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Treasurer’s report from January 2016 was read. A discussion was held about the need for both the Square and PayPal for payments. A motion was made to cancel the Square and exclusively use PayPal by Tony Colter. Pete Shaw second the motion. The Board unanimously approved the motion. A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Tony Colter and seconded by Laura Million. The Board unanimously approved the Treasurer’s report.

Old Business

• Brochures:
  Pete Shaw asked for pictures to include in the brochure. Dave DeWitt offered to download pictures from the SLAGA webpage for Pete to use.
• Email-blast:
  • Pi Day – Eckert’s in Belleville and a St. Louis area place to be determined.
  • Leap Day – both the event and pre-order coins
  • Geo-Poker: hosted by the St. Louis County Parks
  • Scavenger Hunt – in southern Illinois. Dave DeWitt will send Laura Million the email containing the information.
  • CITOs – when information becomes available
  • Premium membership perks – listing the perk to encourage new members or basic members to become premium members.
• Events:
  • Winter Potluck – went well. Everyone liked the new venue. 50/50 drawing - $60; Raffle - $189; Membership - $130; Pre-Sale Leap Day coins - $256; Misc. sales - $316.72
  • Leap Day – Monday, Feb 29, 2016 – Sarah Chisholm will host at J Greene’s from 6pm – 8pm.
  • PI Day – Monday, March 14, 2016 – Pi Day – Wendy will hold a Pi Day at Eckert’s in Belleville. Pete will look for another venue in the St. Louis area.
  • Spring Picnic – May 7, 2016. Korriaan will host the picnic at Clydesdale Park, Hwy 21 and Lindbergh.
  • Summer Picnic 2016 – No date selected but it will be held at Shaw Park, I-170 and Forest Park Blvd.
  • Fall Picnic 2016 – No volunteers to host the event yet. It will be held in Robertsville MO during the weekend of September 10^th or 17^th.
  • Geocoinfest – October 15, 2016 – No new developments.
  • Halloween event 2016 – No new developments.
• Classes
  • GSAK 101 – went well
  • GSAK 201 – Pete reported that the room was too small for the crowd. GSAK booklets were available at the Winter Potluck and they went quickly. A digital copy will be made available on the SLAGA web page.
• Deafest – The board discussed the $300 payment for the booth and decided that it was too much to spend if we are not selling anything. Tony will send an email asking if we can have a space for free to hand out brochures.

New Business

• PayPal’s Automatic Dues Renewal - A discussion was held about discontinuing the PayPal’s Automatic Payment for dues renewal. Wendy Neal made the motion to discontinue the automatic payment option. Tony Colter seconded the motion. The Board unanimously approved.
• St. Charles County Park Camps – SLAGA was asked to teach geocaching as several day camps this summer for kids 8 – 14 years old. Some are full day camps and some are half day camps in June. Pete will follow up on this.
• Road trips – Kathy will get details for the Jack Daniels tour. Laura will plan a MOGA 15 Pyramid trip.
• Classes – Tony stated that he has had interest in another Publishing course. Date to be determined.

Meeting adjourned 7:25pm

Next meeting: Thursday, March 3, 2016, 6pm, St. Louis Bread Company, South Grand Blvd.

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SLAGA Board Meeting MinutesDecember 7, 2015
6:00pm Pander Bread Co.

Called to order: 6:05pm

Attendance: Kathy DeWitt, Tony Colter, Wendy Neal, Laura Million, Dave DeWitt.

Guest: Michael Rogers

The November 2, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes were read. A motion to approve the November 2, 2015 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes was made by Tony Colter and seconded by Wendy Neal. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Treasurer’s report from November 2015 was read. A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Tony Colter and seconded by Laura Million. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Old Business

• Brochures:
  Kathy DeWitt mentioned that Pete Shaw asked for pictures to include in the brochure.
• Newsletter/email-blast:
  • New Day Hike – Kathy DeWitt announced that she will be out of town and asked Tony Colter to create the Cache pages for the Breakfast and Hike. Laura Million stated that she will be out as of Friday with Knee replacement surgery, so that if the cache page does not get published before Friday, someone else will have to send the email blast.
  • Winter Pot Luck – Michael Rogers is hosting the Winter Pot-luck and joined us for this meeting. He stated that he would like a statement in the email blasts that dogs are not allowed in the County Park buildings.
  • Newsletter – Laura would like all materials for the SLAGA Winter Newsletter by January 18, 2016 so that she can publish the Newsletter January 25^, 2016.
• Upcoming events:
  • SLAGA Christmas party – Shamrock December 12 – Everything is getting in place for the Christmas party. Tony Colter reported that the SLAGA Christmas coins are delayed, but will be shipped directly to him, hopefully in time for the Christmas party.
  • New Year’s Day breakfast – Kathy DeWitt will not be able to attend the New Year’s Day Breakfast or hike. Tony Colter will create Cache page.
  • New Year’s Day hike – Robertsville State Park January 1, 2016 – Tony Colter will create Cache page.
  • Winter Pot-Luck – January 30, 2016 at The Pavilion at Lemay (305 Gregg Road) - Premium member prizes from Fall Picnic will be handed out at the Pot-Luck. Michael Rogers reported that people volunteering for positions. He reports that there is public wifi available in the new building. He needs people to help set up and break down. Kathy DeWitt mentioned that many people stay to help clean up. He needs new caches to be placed. Wendy Neal said that she will look into placing a puzzle cache. We would also like a group photo, geo bingo, kids games, and a raffle. Michael noted that not many people signed up to provide a meat dish. Laura Million will include that in the next email blast.
  • Leap Day – Monday, Feb 29, 2016 – Tony Colter showed the design for the SLAGA custom coin. Coin will be $10 cash or check and $11 by pay pal. No locations have been confirmed. Dave DeWitt will check with Schafly’s Tap Room.
  • PI Day – Monday, March 14, 2016 – It was discussed and decided not to offer a custom coin this year. The “Key Lime” pie can be ordered on line. Locations for this event will be discussed at a later board meeting.
  • CITO – April 16-24, 2016 – Korrian will sponsor one of the spring CITO events. SLAGA will provide water and a CITO coin for each event as we did last year.
  • Spring Picnic – Date to be determined. Korrian is working on it getting a pavilion at one of the St. Louis County parks.
  • Summer Picnic 2016 – No volunteers to host the event yet. The board will discuss this at a future meeting.
  • CITO – September 17-25, 2016 - No volunteers to host these events yet. The board will discuss this at a future meeting.
  • Fall Picnic 2016 – No volunteers to host the event yet. The board will discuss this at a future meeting.
  • GeoCoin Fest – October 15, 2016 – No new developments.
  • Halloween event 2016 – No new developments.
• Classes
  • GSAK 101 – Pete Shaw reported to Kathy DeWitt that this class is filling up fast.
  • GSAK 201 – No new updates.
• 12 days of Cachemas – A SLAGA Christmas coin will be the prize for the F2F in the final cache. Tony Colter motioned that SLAGA provide the coin. Wendy Neal seconded the motion. The Board unanimously approved.
• SLAGA coin – Tony Colter showed the initial design for the new SLAGA geocoin. It is a silver flur-de-lis shaped. His aim is to have them ready for purchase at the Spring picnic.
• Milestones – Pete Shaw reported to Kathy DeWitt that there have been very few milestone submission. Laura will send a reminder email blast and add it to the Winter Pot-Luck email blast.

New Business

• No new business on the calendar.

Meeting adjourned 7:09pm

Next meeting: Thursday, January 7, 2016, 6pm, St. Louis Bread Company, South Grand Blvd.

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SLAGA Board Meeting

November 2, 2015 - 6:00pm

St. Louis Bread Co, South Grand, St. Louis

Called to order 6:10pm

Attendance: Kathy DeWitt, Pete Shaw, Tony Colter, Laura Million, Dave DeWitt

The October 5, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes were read. A motion to approve the October 5, 2015 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes was made by Pete Shaw and seconded by Tony Colter. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Treasurer’s report from October 2015 was read. A discussion was held about the treasurer’s report listing only debits and credits that had cleared the bank and not pending transactions. Kathy DeWitt will discuss this with Wendy Neal. A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Tony Colter and seconded by Pete Shaw. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Old Business

• SLAGA Brochures – Being proofed by Pete Shaw
• SLAGA Road Trips – Nothing on the schedule until spring.
• Newsletter/email-blast
  • Film Festival – Tony Colter has a coin available for $10. The coins will be available at the event.
  • Christmas party – the email blast will go out when the cache page is published.
• Past events
  • Fall Picnic - Trailer was inventoried. John Elfrank was reimbursed for the tire and repairs to the trailer. It was discussed that the announcements during meal while everyone is there worked out well and should be continued at future events. The group photo of milestone recipients was a good idea and should be continued at future events. In addition to a group photo, it was suggested that individual photos be taken of each milestone recipient and given to them as a perk. New caches bring people out to these events and should always be included in events. Some discussion was held about creating new games, promote new t-shirts sales, and other ideas for future events.
  • Halloween Event – The Halloween event went well. There should be a better push for the costume contest and pumpkin carving. Not as many participants as previous years. Kathy will check with Korriaan about Creve Coeur Park for next year. The board will consider making The Halloween Bash an official SLAGA event. Kathy will also ask John Elfrank to make Graveyard Hop an official SLAGA event.
• Upcoming events
  • Christmas party – Shamrock’s in St. Peters on December 12 – cache page to be published this week.
  • New Year’s Day breakfast – Kathy will call Denny’s in Eureka – Scheduled for 8am on January 1, 2016.
  • New Year’s Day hike – Robertsville State Park, scheduled for 10am, January 1, 2016.
  • Winter Pot luck and Cabin Fever event – January 30, 2016 - The Pavilion at Lemay (305 Gregg Road) – The event published – Michael Rogers is the host. He needs cache hiders. Kathy will contact Jim Greene and Korriaan about location of existing caches and placing new ones.
  • PI day – March 14, 2016. Since Pi day is during the week, multiple events will be scheduled throughout SLAGA area. A group coin may be available like last year.
  • CITO – April 16-24, 2016. A possible location will be a St. Louis County Park.
  • Spring Picnic 2016 – Date to be determined. Korriaan will host it. She will pick a park and take care of registering the pavilion.
  • Summer Picnic 2016 – No updates.
  • CITO – September 17-25, 2016 – No updates.
  • Fall Picnic 2016 – No updates.
  • GeocoinFest – October 15, 2016 – no new details.
  • Halloween Bash 2016 – possibly to be held at Creve Coeur Park. No updates.
• Classes
  • GSAK 201 in January, getting dates set with Jason Collier. Possible location will be the Library on South Grand in St. Louis.
• 12 days of Cachemas
  • Everyone is getting placement emails. No new details.
• SLAGA coin – Tony Colter has the initial drawings and will hopefully have the coin by the Winter Potluck.
• Milestones
  • Kathy will check on catalogs for 25,000 milestone awards. We have several members approaching that milestone.
• Inventory
  • Inventory taken at fall picnic by Laura Million

New Business

• Website – The website domain name is $15.99 and will be paid when that comes due. The subscription portion, CB Subs, will pay for in the future. Dave will look at updates for the calendar feature.

Adjourned: 7:02pm

Next meeting Monday December 7^th, 6pm
St. Louis Bread Company, South Grand, St. Louis