SLAGA Board Meeting

June 13, 2017

6:03 PM, Chemical Interchange Building

Attendees – Kathy DeWitt, Tony Colter, Bill Lange, Laura MacLeod, Patricia Hutchison, Dave DeWitt

                The meeting was called to order at 6:03 pm.

                Motion to approve the June minutes was made by Tony, seconded by Laura.  Minutes were unanimously approved.

                Treasurer’s report for June was presented.  Motion to approve the treasurer’s reports was made by Patricia, seconded by Tony.  Treasurer’s report was unanimously approved.

Old Business

• Newsletter should go out in August and include information to find the GSAK syllabus on SLAGA.org.
• E-mail blast will be sent out by Dave and include information on the Eclipse coin presale at the summer picnic.

• Event Recap:
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• Upcoming Events:
  • ¨ Summer Picnic – 7/15/17 –Michael Rogers (ArtieD) is hosting at Rock Bridge just outside of Columbia, Missouri.  The facilities have been secured and paid for.  Attendees will provide their own food.  There is nothing new to add at this time.
  • ¨ Eclipse – 8/21/17 – Tony’s event has been published.  Laura’s event has been published.
  • ¨ Fall Picnic – 9/16/17 – The Confluence at Hartford, Illinois.  Team_State will host, per David DeWitt.  The location has been reserved, fee-free.  There are no barbecue grills there; Food will need to be brought in, possibly fried chicken, possibly pulled pork.  No hamburgers or hot dogs this time.
  • ¨ Grave Hop – 10/21/17 – Larson Park.  Date is confirmed, per Kathy but time needs to be verified.  John Elfrank is hosting.
  • ¨ Halloweenie Roast – 10/21/17 – Larson Park.  Terri Nealon (TerriBikes+) is hosting.  Kathy DeWitt said she will contact Larson Park to verify the time with them, but the date is confirmed.
  • ¨ Holiday Party – Tabled as too far in the future.  There is nothing new to add at this time.

• Classes
  • ¨ GSAK – Pete Shaw is teaching the GSAK 101 class; Jason Collier is teaching GSAK 102 and 201. 
  • ¨ Queeny Park – Laura will check on whether anyone has signed up for the July 29 class and whether the location has been corrected for the class setting.

• SLAGA Geocoin
  • ¨ Geocoin – Dave will send Tony the image for the coin’s reverse and Tony promised progress by the next meeting.
  • ¨ Pathtags – Tony is working on it.

• Trailer – The trailer needs to be cleaned out, washed, old foodstuffs (hot chocolate mix, salt and pepper, etc.) tossed and inspected for anything that may need to be repaired or otherwise maintained.  Dave will obtain the physical address for the trailer.

• Adopt a Park – Kathy will check with John Elfrank, as the board has not heard from him on this issue.  Kathy also asked Laura to let SLAGA know when the parks department is ready for us to step in and help with scheduling CITOs to clean up from the floods.

New Business

• None.

• Next meeting will be 5:00 pm, August 11, 2017 at Chemical Interchange.

• Adjournment
  • ¨ Laura motioned for the meeting to be adjourned and it was seconded by Bill.  Motion passed unanimously.  The meeting adjourned at 6:44 pm.