SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes
Meeting date: August 4, 2014
Present: Kim Balek, Michael Allison, Sylvia Titgemeyer, Tony Colter, David DeWitt, and Kathy DeWitt
Meeting called to order at 6:19 PM
Treasurer’s report- will be reviewed at September meeting.
Minutes- Kim made a motion to accept. Michael seconded. The board voted to approve the minutes report
Old Business
· Q & A: September 6th at Voyagers Room at the Dennis & Judith Jones Visitor and Education Center in Forest Park. Michael and Sylvia will place a multi and a simple puzzle. Kim will get the event page together and get it published. Dave will load the GPS units. Kim will put a note on FB and free list about the event. Sylvia will post a note on the cake FB page.
· St. Charles: Indian Camp Creek Park we will be doing 2 classes before lunch and 2 classes after lunch on September 27 from 9-12 and 1-4. They will provide lunch for our members that are teaching the classes.
· Newsletter: Newsletter was sent out on July 31st. We only had 5 bounced e-mail addresses. Out of the 730 sent, 174 opened and 45 clicked on one of the links.
· Web site: Was looking at automating the family memberships. They decided to hold off on this until the program will support the family member and sub member. The sub members will have an expiration date but, will not get the expired membership e-mail.
· SLAGA credit cards: One of the credit cards did get closed. Kim will try to get the other one closed.
· SLAGA Shirts: Tabled till September. Michael needs some information from his source.
· SLAGA coins: Tony and Sarah will work on possible coin for the spring picnic
· EZ-up: John was able to fix the one that we had. We will hold off on a purchase until we need to.
· GSAK: GSAK class is scheduled for August 16th. Steve Bromley will be teaching the class.
New Business
· Taxes: The taxes for this year have been submitted.
· Rappelling event: Tony will check to see if there is anything they might need from SLAGA
Meeting Adjourned at 7:07
The next meeting will be September 8th at 6 PM at Bread Company. If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers as seating is limited.