SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes
May 4, 2015  6pm
St. Louis Bread Company

Meeting Called to order: 6:15pm

Attendance: Kathy DeWitt, Tony Colter, Pete Shaw, Wendy Neal, Laura Million, Dave DeWitt
Guests: John Elfrank, Laurie Elfrank

The April 6th, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes were read and the following correction was made: Correct Wendy’s last name to Neal in the April minutes. A motion to approve the April 6th 2015 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes with the above correction was made by Pete Shaw and seconded by Tony Colter. Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Treasurer’s Report from April 2015 was read. Robert Oelschlaeger (roelsch) donated $10 to SLAGA. Wendy will send thank you note. A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Reports was made by Pete Shaw and seconded by Tony Colter. The Board unanimously approved the April 2015 Treasurer’s Reports.

OLD BUSINESS

Brochures:
The SLAGA brochures are coming along. Dave and Pete will have an update at a future board meeting.

SLAGA Road Trip:

• Evansville: The first SLAGA road trip to Evansville, IN went well. Everyone enjoyed it and are looking forward to more trips.
• Courtois Creek: Pete will hide more caches on the Courtois Creek and plan a canoeing day trip.
• Atlanta, GA: Atlanta is the only place within 500 miles that has caches placed in the year 2000. Many of us need that for Jasmer Challenges.
• Peoria Day Trip: Peoria was also suggested as a destination for a day road trip.

Newsletter/email blast: The following articles will need to be written for the next newsletter and emailed to Laura as soon as possible:

• Election article: Tony

• Spring Picnic: Pete

• President’s Corner and Road Trip: Kathy

• Events: Laura

Events:

• CITO: CITO events went well. Saturday morning had good weather but the afternoon event had rain. The weather for Sunday was beautiful. Many turned out to each event.
• Spring Picnic – Quail Ridge: Pete went over volunteer positions, food, supplies, silent auction items, and milestones. He hid 10 caches that will be published prior to picnic. Laura will announce the picnic with an email blast & Facebook post. Attendance prizes will be bird houses, lock n locks, other swag. There will be prizes for attendance & premium members. The Registration table will handle the collection jar of nominations forms for officers.
• Summer Picnic – Willoughby Heritage Farms: Wendy signed the paperwork for the picnic area.
• Fall Picnic – Cuiver River State Park: Steve Bachman will be the Event Coordinator – SLAGA has paid for pavilion for October 10th. More details to follow.
• Halloween Bash - Kirkwood Park: – The shelter has been reserved and paid for.

Class Schedule:

• Wherigo class – No new information is available for rescheduling this class.
• Publishing Caches – The Publishing Caches class went well and had a good turnout. It was agreed that SLAGA needs to host another one. Tony will host the class again in fall.
• GSAK – Pete will teach GSAK 101 class. Pete will contact Jason Collier (CG3PS) to teach a GSAK 201 class and arrange a date.
• St Louis U – Pete taught GPS and Geocaching to a class of students at St. Louis University.

NEW BUSINESS

Website:

• Gear Exchange page has not been started yet.
• Scout Page has been started but more information needs to be added to it before it is published.

Election:
Nominations will be collected beginning at Spring Picnic and continue through until the Summer Picnic. From there, the names will go to Steve Bromley (javapgmr). He will contact the nominees and confirm their acceptance of the nomination. Election will start shortly thereafter. Steve will email the ballot to membership. Members will also be able to submit nominations anonymously online through a form that Dave DeWitt will create. Aug 31st is deadline for voting. The new board members will be announced at the Fall Picnic.

Business Cards:
Dave priced the printing costs of 1000 cards. Prices for single sided cards range between $62 - $186. John Elfrank suggested two sided with description of geocaching on the back.

12 Days of Cachemas:
Twelve cachers will each be assigned one of the caches to hide to be released the 12 Days prior to Christmas. The hides will be in 4 corners of SLAGA. The FTF will receive an ornament with a Geocaching theme. Ideas were discussed and plans will be finalized at a later date.

MO Assoc. for Health, Physical Ed & Rec Department:
Tom Wolpert was contacted by MAHPERD to teach a class in Geocaching at their convention. The convention is for Phys. Ed. Teachers. The date is Nov. 13-15. Laura and Kathy expressed interest in attending.

Adjourned 7:40pm

Next meeting: Monday, June 1, 2015 6pm
St. Louis Bread Company, South Grand, St. Louis