SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes
Meeting date: March 3, 2014
Present: Michael Allison, Kim Balek, Sylvia Titgemeyer, Tony Colter, David DeWitt, and Kathy DeWitt
Treasurer’s report was accepted as presented.
Minutes were accepted as presented
Old Business
· Wendee Resignation: Have not gotten a formal letter but, we do have her resignation in an e-mail. We are still working on getting the SLAGA property and credentials from here. Tony and Kathy are going to try to make arrangement to go by this Thursday to get the property.
· GPS purchase: The Garmin 450’s are not within our budget. We can purchase Dakota 20’s and stay within our $2000 budget. Dave will purchase this week.
· Credit Card: Kim and Kathy went to the bank to add Kathy to the account. They found out that Mike Griffin was still the owner of the account on the State of Missouri website. They contacted Mike Griffin and had him send in a letter. Now Kim is the owner of the account and Kathy now has a debit/credit card for the account.
· Geowoodstock:
Meet and Greet: The web page is up and was submitted to be published. Was published before the end of the meeting
Cito Event: There was some confusion on this and we are not hosting this event.
Playing Cards: SLAGA will be bidding on a playing card with a max bid of $50. Kathy will take care of the bidding.
· Spring Picnic: Michael Rogers offered to host the spring picnic. He sent a list of possible locations and dates. After some discussion we booked Spanish Lake. The cost is $125 and the shelter holds 300 people.
· CITO events: April 26th and 27th. We have someone to arrange one at Columbia Bottoms but, will have to have someone there that day. Dave will check with the Corp of Engineers to see if we can do a CITO event on their property. Michael will contact last year’s CITO event hosts to see if they would like to host again this year. Michael will check on getting more shirts made. We believe that there are still shirts left from last year.
· Q & A: Downtown library, Wednesday April 2. Sylvia will set up.
· Geocaching 101: Will need to redo to make it more interesting. Geocaching has some good videos that we might want to use. Possibly doing this fall.
· Municipal Library Consortium: Nothing new to report
· St. Charles 2014 Family Camp Expo: Saturday Sept 27th. Indian Camp Creek Park, they are expecting up to 200 participants. They had 101 participants last year. We will do an educational class.
· Newsletter: Will do one month prior to our major events. Need to get the Mail Chimp credentials from Wendee. Will reach out to Brad to get something to put in the newsletter for Geowoodstock.
· Web site: Tony, Dave and Kathy will be meeting with Tom Wolpert this Thursday. Tom has been great for answering questions. Did get a list of the credentials that he had given Wendee when she took office. A couple of them had been changed so, we will have to get them from Wendee.
· Letter of Thanks-Kirkwood park ranger: Kathy has not finished the letter yet.
New Business
· Memberships: Lifetime members were getting e-mails stating their memberships were expired. Dave found where the e-mails were being generated in the web site and fixed the problem.
· SLAGA Tri-fold Brochure: We found that the SLAGA brochures are not printing correctly. Tom Wolpert will make new tri-fold brochures.
· Girl Scouts: We received an e-mail from a Girl Scout troop leader in Farmington, MO. She is asking for help to teach the girls about geocaching. Kathy will reach out to Jones crew to see if they could help them out.
Meeting Adjourned
The next meeting will be April 7th at 6 PM. At the home of Michael Allison. If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers as seating is limited.