SLAGA BOARD MEETING

August 3, 2015

6:00 PM PANERA BREAD CO

Called to order: 6pm

Attendance: Kathy DeWitt, Pete Shaw, Tony Colter, Wendy Neal, Laura Million, Dave DeWitt

The July 13, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes were read. A motion to approve the July 13, 2015 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes was made by Tony Colter and seconded by Pete Shaw. Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Treasurer’s Report from July 2015 was read. A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Reports was made by Tony Colter and seconded by Pete Shaw. The Board unanimously approved the July 2015 Treasurer’s Reports.

Old Business

• Brochures – Pete Shaw brought rough draft of the SLAGA Brochure with him. He will have a draft for the board to look at and approve at the next meeting.
• SLAGA Road Trips
  • Bling power run – Martha Koeller will lead the Road Trip with the help of someone in North Carolina. No date or details have yet been announced.
  • Jack Daniels - Kathy DeWitt will lead the Road Trip to Kentucky with a tentative date in November.
  • Peoria – is on hold until probably Spring. No one has stepped forward to organize this trip and the fall calendar is booked for most people.
  • Float trip - Sept 19 Float Trip will be organized by Ozark Sweetheart.
  • Decatur - Road Trip to Decatur is Aug 21-23 and lead by Laura Million. Major Boothroyd has scheduled a Breakfast event. The hotel we will be staying at is the Welcome Hotel and Suites, north of Decatur. Laura will send out another email blast at the end of the week.
• Newsletter/email-blast
  • SIGA / SLAGA Picnic on 9/12 – Pete will write this up
  • Float Trip – Tony will write this up
  • Voting send out on 8/21 (voting ends 8/31) – Tony will write this up
  • Fall picnic & Milestone send out on 8/6 & 9/10 – Laura will write this up
• Upcoming events
  • CITO/SLAGA Lunch – held on August 1
    The Lunch had bout 130 in attendance. Very good turn out for the CITO event. People enjoyed canoeing while picking up trash. Board agreed that we should hold another one that includes canoes.
  • Fall picnic – October 10 – Cuivre River State Park
    Pete is waiting on coordinates for pavilion to create the cache page.
  • Halloween event / Cemetery Hop – October 24
    TheMadChef is ready to go with his portion of the day. John Elfrank asked SLAGA for prize donations for Cemetery Hop winners. Pete Shaw motioned to donate $100 for John Elfrank to divide among the winners. Tony Colter second the motion. All approved unanimously.
  • Christmas Party
    Pete Shaw will contact RockSusan for her contacts at Shamrock’s in St. Peters. Date is to be determined but it was discussed the time be in the afternoon rather than the evenings. Last year, the Christmas part was held from 4-7pm and members likeit. Kirkwood Station Resturant will be a backup location if Shamrock’s doesn’t work out.
  • New Year’s Day Hike – Robertsville State Park – Janurary 1, 2016.
    The Pavilion has been reserved and paid for.
  • Winter Pot Luck
    Date, time, and location to be determined.
• Classes
  • Wherigo classes – on hold
  • Publishing Caches – Tony Colier has not set a date yet.
  • GSAK 101 and 201 – Waiting on Jason Collier (C3GPS) to finish the GSAK 201 class.
  • Puzzle Class – Laura Million (2_cats) will plan this class for new geocachers. The puzzles will include simple solutions but not give away any actual cache coordinates.
• Elections
  The ballots are out. Steve Bromley will count votes after the voting deadline of August 31^st. The new board will be announced at the Fall picnic.
• 12 days of Cachemas
  Pete Shaw will email people that volunteered to place caches. He will give each the day and time their cache to be published & clue for bonus. Each cache will contain an ornament for the F2F.
• Taxes
  Tax paperwork for this year is done.
• SLAGA coin
  Tony has had no inspiration. He will aim for Christmas release of the coin. If not Christmas, the new coin will be available for the New Year’s Day hike.
• PA System
  Dave and Kathy DeWitt returned the old battery back and received a new one. They will determine if the PA System is not charging the battery properly or if the battery was bad.
• Chairs for 10,000 Cache Milestone
  Pete Shaw and Wendy Neal did not buy new ones because the prices went back up to the original price. They will watch the sales and purchase a few more when the chairs go back on sale.

New Business

• W.O.W. – Formally Park Palooza
  SLAGA was asked to demonstrate Geocaching at the WOW event on September 12. This is the same day as the SLAGA/SIGA Picnic. There will not be any one available to attend.

Meeting Adjourned: 7:15pm
Next meeting: Thursday, September 10^th, 6pm
St. Louis Bread Co. South Grand