SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes
Meeting date: June 6, 2014
Present: Kim Balek, Michael Allison, Sylvia Tigemeyer Tony Colter, David DeWitt, and Kathy DeWitt
Treasurer’s report-tabled till July
Minutes were accepted as presented
Old Business
· Treasurer’s Report: Some issues with invalid fields. Kim mentioned there is a money program in the box. Will look into and see if we can use that. Will do some research to see what our best option will be.
· Spring Picnic: Picnic was a success. The flying ammo can game was a lot of fun. Need to suggest to future host to have this as one of the games. Good turn out to stuff goodie bags for Woodstock.
· Summer Picnic: Will be held at Manchester City Park on Saturday July 12th. Pavilion was $35 for the day. MRS. RGS will host. Slaga will supply paper goods and charcoal.
· Fall Picnic: Will be held at Blackburn Park on Saturday September 13th. Pavillion was $150 for the day. Strider and Crowsfeet will be hosting. Jim will let us know what he needs the board to do.
· Q & A: Dave reserved the Voyagers Room at the Dennis & Judith Jones Visitor and Education Canter for Saturday September 6th from 10 to noon. Rental fee was $40. Kim will host an introduction to Geocaching to families Kim will host the event and will make the class geared toward children.
· Geowoodstock: Kim, Michael and Sylvia hosted the meet and greet. This was a huge success with over 900 attended logs. Everyone had a great time.
· National Get Outdoors Day: Should have plenty of help for the event. Dave and Tony will get coordinates on Friday night for the temporary caches. Dave will get the GPS loaded and will put the caches out on Saturday morning.
· Newsletter: Newsletter should go out in the next 2 weeks.
· Web site: Talked about our wish list for the new website. Dave and Tony will meet Thursday June 19th to get started on the new website. Did some surveys of different people and all most all like the current SLAGA logo.
· SLAGA Tri-fold Brochure: Michael will look over the brochure. Michael asked us to check the e-mail address that was listed in the brochure to make sure it is valid.
· SLAGA property: We did get the rest of the SLAGA property from Wendee. Did find out we had a cooler that was donated. The cooler is now on the trailer and has SLAGA on it.
· Base Camp: Base camp has been cancelled.
· SLAGA credit cards: Jim Nelson will have to cancel the credit cards.
New Business
· Nominations: Have had a lot of nominations. Think we will have a good election.
· SLAGA Shirts: Have had several request for SLAGA shirts. Michael will check and see what our options are. Possible SLAGA premium members would get a discount on SLAGA branded items.
· MOGA: SLAGA will offer to do a flash mob for MOGA 2015.
· Ez UP: The canopy was damaged and could not be used for Woodstock. John Elfrank thought he could fix but, was beyond repair. The top and sides are still useable. Will get the frame from John and see if we can just replace that part. Board approved $600 for the replacement.
· SLAGA premium member: Since several of our members are above the 10.000. Was discussed about possible other milestones. Also, possible other perks for being a premium member.
· GSAK: Steve Bromley would like to have an all GSAK class. Sylvia suggested the library at Grand and Utah. She will check into the library for July 19th. Steve would like to do another one on the Illinois side. Dave and Kathy will look for possible locations for an Illinois GSAK class.
Meeting Adjourned
The next meeting will be July 11th at 6 PM at the home of Michael Allison. If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers as seating is limited.