SLAGA Board Meeting

September 14, 2017

6:00 PM, Chemical Interchange Building

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

                The meeting was called to order at 6:13 pm.

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

                Motion to approve the July treasurer’s report was made by Tony, seconded by Bill.  The treasurer’s report was unanimously approved.

                Motion to approve the August treasurer’s report was made by Patricia, seconded by Tony.  The treasurer’s report was unanimously approved.

Old Business

• Newsletter – December/January for next one.
• E-mail blast needs to go out for Save the Date around 10/1/17.

• Event Recap:
  • ¨ Eclipse:  Two events, one by Laura, one by Tony.  Both were well-attended.

• Upcoming Events:
  • ¨ Fall Picnic – 9/16/17 – The Confluence at Hartford, Illinois.  Team_State will host, per David DeWitt.  Food is ordered and ready to go.  More donations have been received from Patricia.  Prizes need to be purchased.
  • ¨ Grave Hop – 10/21/17 – Bellefontaine Cemetery.  John Elfrank is hosting.  Nothing new on this.
  • ¨ Halloweenie Roast – 10/21/17 – Larson Park.  Terri Nealon (TerriBikes+) is hosting.  Questions received from TerriBikes+ have been answered.
  • ¨ Holiday Party – Kirkwood Station contacted Kathy to ask her to host the event there again.  Penciled in for 12/9/17, 1-3 pm.  Laura will host at Krikwood Station.  Board determined that a Monday or Tuesday night during the holidays isn’t feasible but will be considered for a future event.

• Classes
  • ¨ GSAK – Nothing new to add at this time. 
  • ¨ Queeny Park – Park catalog is now out with class for October 14, 2017, but no one is currently signed up.

• SLAGA Geocoin
  • ¨ Geocoin – Direct Mint has the blueprint for pricing.  SLAGA plans to order about 200; it will take about a week or so to hear from them, and once approved, production will run about 6-8 weeks.  Projected presale at Christmas party.  Bill suggested that ordering an additional quantity of 10-20 coins to meet demand would have been a good idea.  It was mentioned that only SLAGA premium members were able to purchase the coins because we had run out of the coins before the sales could be opened to the rest of the SLAGA membership.
  • ¨ Pathtags – Tony is looking into pricing for a matching pathtag.  We will probably order about 200 to match the coins, but more information needs to be gathered.
  • ¨ Eclipse coins – SLAGA ordered 50 and sold all of them.  They were only offered to premium members and people were on waiting lists to purchase them.

• Adopt a Park – John Elfrank spoke with Tom Ott, assistant park director and received positive response but nothing firm at this point.  Tom Ott is in favor and would provide a dumpster.  He suggests teaming up with Clean Stream.

• Election – Results were discussed.

New Business

• Geocaching on the Greenway – SLAGA was contacted by a Greenway representative requesting an interview about geocaching as something that can be done on the Greenways.  Kathy recruited Pete Shaw to do the interview on this.  Pete will contact the man to make arrangements.

• St. Louis County Public Meetings/Open House – General planning meetings.

• Request received for new SLAGA gear has been made, including polo shirts (with pockets), t-shirts and hats, as well as SWAG.  Dave will look into costs for said items.

• Next meeting will be 6:00 pm, November 2, 2017 at Chemical Interchange.

• Adjournment
  • ¨ Laura motioned for the meeting to be adjourned and it was seconded by Patricia.  Motion passed unanimously.  The meeting adjourned at 7:09 pm.