Board Meeting SLAGA Minutes

Meeting date: September 8, 2014

Present: Kim Balek, Michael Allison, Sylvia Titgemeyer, Tony Colter, Wendy Neal, Laura Million, Pete Shaw, David DeWitt, and Kathy DeWitt

Meeting called to order at 6:20 PM

Treasurer’s report- Michael made a motion to accept. Tony seconded. The board voted and approved July and August treasurer’s report

Minutes- Kim made a motion to accept. Tony seconded. The board voted to approve the minutes report

Old Business

· GSAK Class: Steve Bromley hosted a class August 16. Michael Allison helped teach the class. There were 8 people who attend the class. It went very well. Discussion was made on having more GSAK classes in the next year.

· Q & A: September 6^th at Voyagers Room at the Dennis & Judith Jones Visitor and Education Center in Forest Park. Kim Balek did the class geared more towards the kids. We had 3 brand new cachers. Some discussion was made on how to promote the Geocaching 101 class. Some of the ideas were community college continuing education, YMCA, Science Center and History museum. We will also check with Lena Dowers who does some classes at the Missouri Bottoms.

· Rappelling Event: Event went really well. There has been some interest in doing a Rappelling event closer to the metro area. Pete suggested doing one at Englemann Woods. We will possibly look into hosting an event Spring 2015.

· 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. Pete and Kim volunteered to help teach the classes. An article will be put in the newsletter asking for volunteers.

· Web site: Dave and Tony gave a demonstration of the new website. They are hoping to have it going live by the first of the year.

· SLAGA credit cards: Kim was able to close the second account. When Kim and Wendy Neal meet at the bank to change everything over to Wendy, they will verify that it has been closed.

· SLAGA Shirts: Michael had not gotten pricing from his source. Kathy did have some pricing from a local business. Pete mentioned the shirts that CIGA had were very nice. Pete will find out who CIGA used for their shirts for possible CITO shirts.

New Business

· Newly Elected Board:

President-Kathy DeWitt-Team_State

VP-Tony Colter-Eravau

VP-Pete Shaw-Major134

Secretary-Laura Million-2_cats

Treasurer-Wendy Neal-Moonchild1800

Duties were discussed

• Calender-Dave DeWitt will continue to update.

• SLAGA geocaching account- Pete and Tony will share in monitoring the account. They will ensure that all maintenance is performed as needed.

• Milestones-Pete will keep the list. Tony and Pete will ensure that milestones are ordered and will present them at the picnics.

• Newsletter-Laura will get all the articles together. Dave will continue to e-mail the newsletter. Will do quarterly.

• PAF list-Laura will put together a new PAF list. Will start getting the list at the fall picnic. It you put your name on the list, you will get a copy of the list

• Name Tags-Dave will continue to do the name tags for the major events.

• Inventory-Laura will keep the inventory.

• Post office box-Tony will help check the box

· Fall Picnic: Everything is good to go.

· 12-13-14 Event: Still waiting to hear back from a couple people for toy donation. Wendy has a possible place to donate the toys. Kat and Brad will be doing the food pantry donation. Kathy and Laura will host the event. Will see if there is an event coin available.

· Meeting: First Monday of each month works for everyone.

Meeting Adjourned at 7:48

The next meeting will be October 6^th at 6 PM at Bread Company. If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers as seating is limited.