SLAGA Board Meeting

November 2, 2015 - 6:00pm

St. Louis Bread Co, South Grand, St. Louis

Called to order 6:10pm

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

The October 5, 2015 Board Meeting Minutes were read. A motion to approve the October 5, 2015 SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes was made by Pete Shaw and seconded by Tony Colter. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Treasurer’s report from October 2015 was read. A discussion was held about the treasurer’s report listing only debits and credits that had cleared the bank and not pending transactions. Kathy DeWitt will discuss this with Wendy Neal. A motion to approve the Treasurer’s Report was made by Tony Colter and seconded by Pete Shaw. The Board unanimously approved the minutes.

Old Business

• SLAGA Brochures – Being proofed by Pete Shaw
• SLAGA Road Trips – Nothing on the schedule until spring.
• Newsletter/email-blast
  • Film Festival – Tony Colter has a coin available for $10. The coins will be available at the event.
  • Christmas party – the email blast will go out when the cache page is published.
• Past events
  • Fall Picnic - Trailer was inventoried. John Elfrank was reimbursed for the tire and repairs to the trailer. It was discussed that the announcements during meal while everyone is there worked out well and should be continued at future events. The group photo of milestone recipients was a good idea and should be continued at future events. In addition to a group photo, it was suggested that individual photos be taken of each milestone recipient and given to them as a perk. New caches bring people out to these events and should always be included in events. Some discussion was held about creating new games, promote new t-shirts sales, and other ideas for future events.
  • Halloween Event – The Halloween event went well. There should be a better push for the costume contest and pumpkin carving. Not as many participants as previous years. Kathy will check with Korriaan about Creve Coeur Park for next year. The board will consider making The Halloween Bash an official SLAGA event. Kathy will also ask John Elfrank to make Graveyard Hop an official SLAGA event.
• Upcoming events
  • Christmas party – Shamrock’s in St. Peters on December 12 – cache page to be published this week.
  • New Year’s Day breakfast – Kathy will call Denny’s in Eureka – Scheduled for 8am on January 1, 2016.
  • New Year’s Day hike – Robertsville State Park, scheduled for 10am, January 1, 2016.
  • Winter Pot luck and Cabin Fever event – January 30, 2016 - The Pavilion at Lemay (305 Gregg Road) – The event published – Michael Rogers is the host. He needs cache hiders. Kathy will contact Jim Greene and Korriaan about location of existing caches and placing new ones.
  • PI day – March 14, 2016. Since Pi day is during the week, multiple events will be scheduled throughout SLAGA area. A group coin may be available like last year.
  • CITO – April 16-24, 2016. A possible location will be a St. Louis County Park.
  • Spring Picnic 2016 – Date to be determined. Korriaan will host it. She will pick a park and take care of registering the pavilion.
  • Summer Picnic 2016 – No updates.
  • CITO – September 17-25, 2016 – No updates.
  • Fall Picnic 2016 – No updates.
  • GeocoinFest – October 15, 2016 – no new details.
  • Halloween Bash 2016 – possibly to be held at Creve Coeur Park. No updates.
• Classes
  • GSAK 201 in January, getting dates set with Jason Collier. Possible location will be the Library on South Grand in St. Louis.
• 12 days of Cachemas
  • Everyone is getting placement emails. No new details.
• SLAGA coin – Tony Colter has the initial drawings and will hopefully have the coin by the Winter Potluck.
• Milestones
  • Kathy will check on catalogs for 25,000 milestone awards. We have several members approaching that milestone.
• Inventory
  • Inventory taken at fall picnic by Laura Million

New Business

• Website – The website domain name is $15.99 and will be paid when that comes due. The subscription portion, CB Subs, will pay for in the future. Dave will look at updates for the calendar feature.

Adjourned: 7:02pm

Next meeting Monday December 7^th, 6pm
St. Louis Bread Company, South Grand, St. Louis