SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting date: March 5, 2013

Present: Jim Greene, Michael Allison, Kathy DeWitt, Dave DeWitt, John Elfrank, Laurie Elfrank, Jim Nelson, Nate Rover, Wendee Scott-Dells, Rich Sheffold,

Treasurer’s report and minutes were accepted as presented. 

Old Business

·         Website: The brainstorming meeting went very well.  Lots of ideas.   Geostl.com is now transferred to SLAGA and our P.O. Box.   Web domain is paid for another year.   April 19^th the Blue Host will be due.   SLAGA board voted to renew.  Passed.

·         3/14/13 PI day: Jim Greene reported that everything is good to go.  

·         Earth Day Weekend: All the cache pages will look similar.  Wendee has created a template for all the event host to use.   Would like to see if we can link them all together. Wendee showed us the draft of the CITO shirts.  SLAGA would purchase all the shirts and get reimbursed.

·         Spring Picnic: Michael Allison will host the event.   The date is May 5^th, and will be held at Tower Grove Park.   Michael will publish the event.   More caches will be placed around the park.

·         Summer Picnic:  Kev and Tiff will host in Herculaneum. Cost is $25.   The park will provide 2 tents that are 10 X 20 with 4 picnic tables.   Cachers to bring tables and chairs.  Make sure the cache page indicates that this is a very low key event.  

·         Fall Picnic:  Dave DeWitt to look into a possible location  

·         Inventory:    John purchased some extra tables and put them in the trailer.  Dave showed the options on camping chairs. The board voted to purchasing 4 camping chairs to be placed in the trailer.  Wendee will purchase the chairs.

·         Q & A: April 11-Deer Run Branch.   Michael will do a session in May at St Louis City Library.  Nate will do a June session in Belleville.

·         Geocaching 101:  Queeny Park has classes in their summer calendar but, not on the house calendar. 

April 13^th GPS

May 4^th Geocaching 101

September 21 GPS

Oct 19 Geocaching 101  

New Business

·         Welcome membership packets:  Dues are for helping the group offset the cost of food, website, etc.  People become premium member to support the organization.

·         Newsletter: There are caches from 2008 with no finds. There are approximately 30 of them within 250 miles.   Newsletter info need to be  e-mailed to  Wendee by Friday March 8,

·         Meeting:   The next meeting will be at St. Louis Bread Company in Webster Groves on April 2^nd.   The start time will be at 6:00PM.  We will evaluate how this location works for everyone.

Meeting Adjourned

The next meeting will be April 2^nd at 6 PM.   If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers as seating is limited.