SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting date: May 4, 2011

Present: John and Laurie Elfrank, Jim Greene, Sarah Chisholm, Rich Sheffold, Yvonne Von Der Ahe, Tom Wolpert

Yvonne Von Der Ahe presented the treasurer’s report, which was accepted.

Yvonne Von Der Ahe reported that she has not finished reconciling the pending membership payments on the web site.  She will continue to work on it.

Laurie Elfrank reported that the Earth Day event at Mark Twain Lake came out well. The board expressed its appreciation to Pondigger and FirstLady for handling the event.

With regard to the Geocaching 101 attendance sheets, Jim Greene reported that he has the proper mailing address for County Parks and will mail the sheets on May 5.

John and Laurie Elfrank reported that the online inventory of consumable items has been updated.

Since Mike Henthorn was not present, there is no further information on the status of the new tongue jack for the SLAGA trailer.

The board confirmed that John Elfrank, Jim Greene and Yvonne Von Der Ahe will not run for office in the fall election.  This will be further publicized at the Spring Picnic.

The Spring Picnic is under control.  John and Laurie Elfrank will handle meat and condiments. Jim Greene will handle silent auction sheets and bingo cards.  Yvonne Von Der Ahe will make sure there is a supply of one-dollar bills for change. Post-meeting: SLAGA broke even on the picnic. A good time was had by all.

John Elfrank reported record attendance at the loggable Q&A event on April 20. As a result, we will hold the St. Charles edition on Monday, May 16.  Event page has been published http://coord.info/GC2V3PD.  Post-meeting: calendar updated.

SLAGA is committed to the following events.  Except as noted, Laurie Elfrank will call for volunteers in the next newsletter. Tom Wolpert to update the SLAGA calendar as needed. Post-meeting: volunteers solicited in newsletter and calendar updated.

·         Saturday, May 14, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Get Out and Play! event at Washington State Park.

·         Saturday, June 4, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. National Trails Day event at the World Bird Sanctuary.

·         August 1-5, mornings. Kids on Campus geocaching class at Meramec Community College. Instructors needed for children K-8.

·         Saturday, September 3, times TBD. St. Charles County Family Camping Expo at Klondike Park.

·         November 11-13, MOAHPERD convention at Lake of the Ozarks. SLAGA will do a one-hour indoor presentation on geocaching. One volunteer needed. Actual date not yet determined.

Rich Sheffold reported that he has reserved the Grant Shelter in Jefferson Barracks County Park for the Winter Potluck and Cabin Fever on Saturday, January 28, 2012. There will be no cost to SLAGA.

Tom Wolpert to follow up with Hobbit Taz and Cribbage Witch regarding the Geocaching 101 class for the City of Florrisant.  Post-meeting: e-mail sent.

Tom Wolpert and Rich Sheffold to get the revised “family” geocaching brochure uploaded to the public part of the SLAGA web site.

Tom Wolpert to revise Geocaching 101 PowerPoint deck for new geocaching.com home page design.

Tom Wolpert to finish up geocaching adult training curriculum for Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri.