MINUTES

CLEVELAND WHIST CLUB

Board Meeting, Unit 125, Sunday, May 16, 2010

Present: Ginny Young, Bev Carter, Barbara Greenspan, Geraldean Jones, Ellen Miles, Sue Pisanelli, Frank Scali, Ros Sukenik, Kermit Wolford, Mary Lou Vermerris.

Absent: Frank Aquila, Harriet Kitay, Fleur Howard, Rosemary Kleis, Jim Stahl.

Guest: Sharon Fairchild.

The meeting was called to order by the president, Ginny Young, at 11 AM with a quorum present at St Michael’s Woodside Hall.

The minutes of the last board meeting on April 7, 2010 and the Annual Dinner Meeting on April 21, 2010 were approved with one correction to the April 21, 2010 minutes.

Under the Issues section of the Vichill League Report by Peter Miller;”April to November League: Majority (2/3) in favor of changing; 52 indicated that they would remain. One third were not in favor. They would not drop out or might. Twenty definitely would not play and 9 would drop out.” will be changed to read: April to November League: Majority (2/3) were not in favor of changing; 52 indicated that they would remain. One third were in favor of change. They would not drop out or might. Twenty definitely would not play and 9 would drop out.

A motion was made by Ros Sukenik to accept the both sets of minutes with the one correction. Bev Carter seconded the motion. The motion passed.

Ginny Young reports that Bev Carter has resigned. Ginny thanked Bev for her service to the Unit and accepted the resignation with regret. Barb Bacon has agreed to fill in as her replacement for the remaining 1 year of Bev’s term. A motion was made by Sue Pisanelli and seconded by Kermit Wolford, to accept Barbara Bacon’s offer to fill Bev Carter’s term. The motion passed.

Ginny also reports that Harriet Kitay has resigned as Vice President as she is unable to attend meetings on Sundays. The resignation leaves the Vice President position vacant. After discussion the board agreed by consensus that in view of her past experience; Barb Bacon would be an excellent choice to fill the Vice President Position. Sue Pisanelli made a motion and Barb Greenspan seconded it that Barb Bacon be elected Vice President pending her acceptance when asked by Ginny Young. The motion was passed.

Frank Scali has volunteered to become the Unit 125 NAP Coordinator. He will work with District 5 to publicize the NAP competition to be held in October in Buffalo due to the World Championship in Philadelphia.

Barbara Greenspan has volunteered to become the Unit 125 GNP Coordinator. Sue Pisanelli will fill the position of Business Manager for Unit 125 and Mary Lou Vermerris will assist with the Membership Chair Position for Unit 125.

Ginny Young has received and Email from Lou Joseph of District 5 requesting the names of the five people who will be attending the District Dinner Meeting to be held at the Regional on Sunday, May 30, 2010. Geraldean Jones, Frank Scali, Ros Sukenik (tentatively), Ginny Young, and Sue Pisanelli will attend that meeting as Unit 125 Representatives.

Ginny Young reports that Fleur Howard has put together a list of Directors of local club games with telephone numbers and emails for use in our publicity for the Summer IMP League and other Unit 125 Events.

Ginny Young asks the board members to help with the telephone campaign for the Summer IMP League by each taking 8-10 names. She had a spread sheet list of the participants from last year’s event. Ginny went through the list and had volunteers to call last year’s participants. The dates and particulars are on the entry form; June 23, 2010, July 14, 2010, August 4, 2010 and august 18, 2010.

The Annual Business Meeting for Unit 125 will be held today at the Annual Dinner.

There was no report for the Vichill League.

Bev Carter reported for the Scholarship Committee. The National ACBL Organization contributed $1000 to the scholarship fund this year. Contributions to the Rita Davis Scholarship Fund amounted to $800 for the scholarship fund. Further contributions came from the Michelle Allen Fund. Bev reported that she also sent out requests to Unit 125 Clubs requesting that they hold Charity Games for the Scholarship Fund. Four Clubs ran a charity event. From all contributions, there was a total of $2950 in Scholarship Funds available this year to be distributed. Bev requests that as board members, we please, encourage charity events to benefit the Unit 125 Scholarship Fund. We have limited ways to raise money for the Scholarship Fund at this time. We only have 50/50 raffles at sectionals and the charity events.

Seven Applications were received from well qualified applicants this year. They will be presented at the Annual Business Meeting later today. IRS notification was done. 990 Forms have been filed.

Sharon Fairchild presented a written District 5 Report. Charity event use by ACBL sanctioned club games has been examined. The excessive use of charity games by local clubs may distort the masterpoint awards. The ACBL has spelled out guidelines for special local charity games by sanctioned clubs. The month of February is reserved for Junior Fund Games, the month of April is reserved for Charity Games and the month of September is reserved for International Fund Games and in those months any and all ACBL sanctioned club games can be special games for the named funds. In the remaining nine months of the year one game per month per sanctioned session may be a special game for the Junior Fund, the Charity Foundation, the Educational Foundation or the International Fund. The masterpoint rating for all of these special games will be 70% of sectional rating maintaining the current cap of 6.00 masterpoints. This is a change from 90% of sectional rating and unlimited games in the non-special months.

Any club that, in any calendar year runs one or more allowed special local charity games that are sactioned for extra masterpoints must make available for public inspection an accounting of all funds raised in such games no later than February 28^th of the following calendar year.

There will be a new NABC+ event called the Super Senior Pairs (age70+) that will be held the last 2 days of the Fall NABC beginning in 2010 as a 4 session event with two qualifying and two final sessions held at 10AM and 3PM.The requirements for ranks up to Life Master were modified.

Under new business, the subject of where board meetings are to be held was raised. During this discussion, Barbara Greenspan raised questions about the move of the Whist Club Game to Sunday. Ginny Young asks that this subject be tabled due to lack of time.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:15PM for prompt attendance to the Annual Unit Business Meeting to be held at 12:30PM at the same location.

Respectfully Submitted

Sue Pisanelli

The next board meeting will be held at 5:30 PM prior to the Summer IMP League Game at the Solon Party Center.

Hospitality will be provided by Mary Lou Vermerris.