SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting date: April 7, 2014

Present: Michael Allison, Sylvia Titgemeyer, Tony Colter, David DeWitt, and Kathy DeWitt

Visitors: John Elfrank and Laurie Elfrank stopped by for a few minutes

Treasurer’s report was tabled till next month.

Minutes were accepted as presented

This was a team building meeting. FTF on (need to put in GC #)

Old Business

· GPS purchase: Dave made the GPS purchase. He also purchased rechargeable batteries, charger and a new case. It was discussed that the old GPS’s will be sold off. Will offer to SLAGA folks first. Will have them at the spring picnic and put a couple on the auction table. We will get the cases from the old GPS’s for possible use for the projector.

· Spring Picnic: Everything is a go. Will meet Saturday at 2 PM to place new caches around the park. Will ask the reviewers to publish May 9^th.

· Credit Card: Will check with the bank to see if we can do the mobile deposits of checks. Will see if there are any fees associated with doing that.

· Geowoodstock:

Playing Cards: SLAGA did win a card at the auction for $25. Dave will make the art work for the card.

Donation: SLAGA will donate a PI coin and an 11-12-13 coin to GeoWoodstok.

· CITO events: Barntole will arrange one at the Missouri Bottoms but, will not be able to host. Michael will find a host. Dave is looking into arranging one at the Corp of Engineers site in Illinois. A host will need to found to host this one also.

· Q & A: Sylvia will arrange to have one at the St. Louis main library.

· Geocaching 101: Forest Park has rooms that we can rent. Dave will check on the availability and cost for a class this fall. Michael and Sylvia will revamp the class to make more interesting.

· Municipal Library Consortium: Nothing new to report

· St. Charles 2014 Family Camp Expo: Saturday Sept 27^th. Nothing new to report.

· Newsletter: Dave and Kathy have some rough articles. Handed over to Sylvia to reduce the size of some of the articles. She will do a meet a cacher article. Will send out early next week.

· Web site: We had a good meeting with Tom. Dave and Tony learned a lot. Will go into more detail at the next meeting.

· Letter of Thanks-Kirkwood park ranger: Kathy sent the thank you card/note

· Memberships: Looking at the different membership names. Some of them are not very user friendly.

· SLAGA Tri-fold Brochure: We have the SLAGA tri-fold brochure and the one that Tom did for GeoWoodstok. She will review each of them and report back next month.

· Girl Scouts: Kathy sent her an e-mail and has not heard back. If she hears back we will pursue at that time

· SLAGA property: Kathy and Dave met up with Wendee and now we have the SLAGA property that was in Wendee’s possession. Kathy did an inventory of all the items. The stump was in some need of repair. John Elfrank will do some repairs on the stump. We are missing the poles for the Geocaching flag. Wendee will look for these. Still need to get credentials for mail chimp and base camp.

New Business

· National Get Outdoors Day: Will be held at the Gateway arch on Saturday June 14. We will do this event again. Kathy will send in the form confirming our participation. Kathy will also get volunteers to work the booth.

· Donation for Glen’s son: Would like to do something for Glen’s son at the picnic. Pass the hat will be done. SLAGA would also like to make a donation but, with our tax status, that would be difficult. A motion was made to hold the 50/50 with the proceeds going to Glen’s son.

Next meeting May 5^th at 6PM at SGTMTA’s home

Meeting Adjourned

The next meeting will be May 5th at 6 PM. At the home of Michael Allison. If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers as seating is limited.