SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting date: December 2, 2013

Present: Michael Allison, Kim Balek, Sylvia Titgemeyer, Tony Colter, David DeWitt

Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented.

Minutes were accepted with spelling correction to Sylvia Titgemeyer

Old Business

• 11/12/13 event: Everything went great.

• 12/5/13 Christmas Party event: Tony says he has everything ready.

• Winter Pot Luck: Need to get ahold of the host of the event and make sure everything is on track. Will see if there is anything they need from us.

• New Years Day Hike: Wendee left word she has everything in hand.

• Milestones: Michael will be putting out a reminder on Slaga.org, Free list and Facebook with a list of awards that he has already received.

• GPS: We had more discussed about purchasing new GPS’s. Wendee said her contact did not return here call. David received call from Jim Green during meeting, Jim said he also had a contact with garmin and would call about a bulk purchase of GPSr. David had found the Garmin Oregon 450model as low as $170s and came up with a nice set of rechargeable batteries and charger, He will also get case to hold the equipment securely.

• Inventory: Kathy purchased new supplies for future events.

• Website: Dave and Tony to work on the web site.

   

New Business

• Caching with Pets : Received email looking your info about caching with Pets. We left this in Jim Greens hands to get a hold of Mixbreed and Bluedaisy to give there experience on this topic.

• Basecamp: Discussed value of basecamp. Table discussion till next meeting.

• Future Q & A’s: Need to setup locations for future Q & A’s. Decided that these should be held in the months of January, February, & March. Hopeful locations include Downtown St. Louis library, Illinois, South County.

• Announcing Slaga meeting: Need to place notice of next month’s meeting on calendar. (Michael says ok to post his address and home cords, when meeting is there)

• News Letter: Talked about moving on with the Slaga newsletter, making it quarterly issues. Decided that it should come out not on a perfect 90 cycle but approximately 2 weeks prior to each major Slaga picnic event. Figured on 8 topics that could be put into each newsletter. Not in any certain order:

  • Preview of upcoming events

  • Message from the president

  • Review of past events

  • TB race

  • Recount of milestones/ reminder to report you new milestones

  • Cool new caches /Classic old cache

  • Interview “meet your fellow geocacher” / special interest story

  • The best of caches (this would be a great piece for elonka)

     

    Meeting Adjourned

    The next meeting will be January 6th at 6 PM. At the home of Michael Allison. If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers as seating is limited.