SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes
Meeting date: June 1, 2011
Present: John and Laurie Elfrank, Jim Greene, Sarah Chisholm, Mike Henthorn, Rich Sheffold, Tom Wolpert, Tina Boyle.
The board accepted the written treasurer’s report. As planned, SLAGA pretty much broke even on the Spring Picnic.
Tina Boyle discussed her plans for the summer picnic. It will be held on Sunday, July 24 at Quail Ridge Park (St. Charles County), shelter #6. She plans several new permanent caches, as well as a new bingo game. Mike Henthorn e-mailed Tina a copy of the new St. Charles County SUP.
The board discussed the June 4 event at World Bird Sanctuary. We have enough volunteers for this one.
Rich Sheffold reported that we still do not have enough volunteers for the Kids on Campus program at Meramec Community College during the first week of August. Due to the difficulty of recruiting volunteers for weekday activities, the board voted to inform the community college that we would be unable to assist with this in 2012.
We also need to solicit volunteers for the Family Camping Expo to be held at Klondike Park on Labor Day Weekend. SLAGA will hold our usual family introduction to geocaching on Saturday, September 3. Tina Boyle volunteered to attend.
Laurie Elfrank will include a call for volunteers for Kids on Campus and the Family Camping Expo in the next newsletter.
The next newsletter will also include a final call for SLAGA officer nominations. Nominations close June 30. Nominations are to be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Sarah Chisholm displayed her design for the SLAGA 10-year anniversary geocoin. Sarah did her customary spectacular job! Sarah and John Elfrank will coordinate a few minor changes.
Sarah Chisholm reported that “the check is in the mail” for SLAGA’s share of pathtag give-back revenue.
Mike Henthorn will order the tongue jack for the SLAGA trailer.
Sarah Chisholm discussed her plans to host an 11/11/11 event and her request that SLAGA defray the minimal cost associated with the venue. The board approved the expenditure.
Tom Wolpert reported that there has been no response from Mark and Shirley Derr to our second plea that they consider coordinating a Geocaching 101 class requested by the City of Florissant. In view if the long delay in responding to the city, the board directed Tom Wolpert to let the city know that we were unable to find volunteers to staff the class. Post-meeting: e-mail sent. The city replied that they are willing to pay someone to do this. Not much we can do if we don’t have volunteers.
The board discussed the proposal from GONIL to co-sponsor the minting of geocoins to be used as prizes in a cache of the month competition. The consensus was that any such competition would be unsuccessful because SLAGA does not have a sufficiently active online community. Tom Wolpert to send our regrets to GONIL. Post-meeting: e-mail sent; reply received from the president of GONIL.
The board discussed jundtie797’s suggestion that SLAGA sponsor a “team” on promotive.com so that SLAGA members could benefit from product discounts promoted on the site. Tom Wolpert reported that the site’s rules appear to restrict team membership to those who are in a position to influence purchases by others. For SLAGA, this would limit the benefit to officers and others who frequently volunteer for public events. The board tabled any decision since most board members had not had the opportunity to review the site.