MINUTES

CLEVELAND WHIST CLUB

 BOARD MEETING, UNIT 125, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008

 

Present:  Barb Bacon, Bev Carter, Eva Lefton,  Geraldean Jones, Peter Miller, Sue Pisanelli, Ken Resnick, Susan Stark, Helene Weiss                            

Absent:   Gary Montain, Gary Sikon, Wayne Ward, Cathy Wolford, Kermit Wolford, Ginny Young

 

Guests:    Sharon Fairchild

 

Meeting was called to order at 5:50 pm with a quorum present.

 

Minutes of the 5/7/08 meeting were approved as read.

 

President’s Report:

            Barb Bacon reviewed the District Meeting.  Primarily, the need to pay caddies minimum wage for Vichill League and all Tournaments.  Also the need to check their ages to make sure they can work the evening session.  Barb stated attendance was down at the Regional due to other Districts holding Regionals close in dates to ours.  Cleveland has the lowest entry fees in the area and that should have a positive impact on future attendance.

 

Treasurer’s Report:

            Cathy Wolford was out of town so no report presented.

Committee Reports:

a.       Unit Good Will Committee.  Not discussed due to time constraints

b.       Ken Resnick was not available to discuss nominations for the local Honoree Member of the Year. 

 

Old Business:

a.       Eva Lefton presented the Budget Committee’s report.

1.        Motion by Peter Miller, second by Bev Carter to eliminate monetary prizes at Sectionals.  After much discussion,                          Motion passed unanimously

2.       Recommendation to research the number of card tables needed for Sectionals to see if they can be decreased.  Barb Bacon will ask Cathy Wolford to look into this and report back to Board

3.       Recommendation to continue honorariums for tournament co-chairs, partnership, caddie and hospitality chairs.  No action required.

4.       Motion by Peter Miller, second by Helene Weiss to raise entry fee at Unit Game to $6 for regular events and $7 for special games starting in September.

 5 in favor, 3 opposed.  Motion passed

5.       Motion by Eva Lefton, second by Susan Stark to have uniform honorariums of $599 plus expenses for Secretary, Treasurer and editor of Bridging the Gap. 

Motion passed unanimously

6.       Recommendation to review the feasibility of the annual dinner meeting  This will be reviewed after the June 1st event.

 

b.       Status of Summer IMP League – Gary Sikon was not available to give report

c.       StaC Swiss Team – Barb Bacon stated it is set up for June 15th and flyers have been distributed to all clubs

d.       Susan Stark stated she has reservations for 30 persons so far for the annual dinner June 1st

e.       Peter Miller presented an update of the Conditions of Contest for the Vichill League and suggested changes to the format.  This was tabled till the next meeting when everyone has had a chance to review the information.

 

New Business:

a.        No action on Novice/299’r funding from District 5 due to time constraints

b.       A motion was made by Peter Miller, second by Susan Stark that the minutes of our Board meetings be posted on the Unit website once they have bee approved by the board.

7 yes, 1 no – Motion passed

 

 

The next meeting will be Saturday, July 12th at 9:30am at the Marriott, I-271 and Harvard.

 

 

Sue Pisanelli moved to adjourn the meeting at 7:15pm; second by Bev Carter.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Beverly Carter

Secretary