VILLAGE CARD CLUB BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING
September 8, 2006

Meeting was called to order by President Irving at 2:20 PM.

Attending: Ned Irving, Dick Condon, Lois Schoenrock, Teri LaBove, Allan Walker, Richard Robertson, Betty Schultz, Marilyn Biegler, Liz Coonfer and Mabel Serpa
Absent: Vickie Jennings

The agenda was approved with no changes.

The minutes of the August 11 meeting were accepted with one correction, Marilyn Biegler was in attendance.

Correspondence:
No correspondence but comments made to Board members from VCC members were presented.

Officer Reports:
Vice President
Fall classes are set.

Treasurer:
August showed a gain of $542 for the month of August, 2006. Game sales were strong along with several hundred dollars in deposits from teaching. We are ahead by $4,368 plus the profit we made on the regional which we have not received. Net equity at the end of August is $38,716.

Membership:
We have 6 new members.

Game Director:
Liz requested feed back on game choices.

Publicity:
The flyers are ready for the upcoming sectional and will be taken to the Tunica Regional.

Old Business:
Liability Insurance—Ned and Allan are still working on this. To be presented in October.

Future years sectional dates—Motion made by Dick to approve February 22-24 as the 2008 sectional dates. There are complications in the tournament calendar that necessitate moving the sectional earlier than usual. Seconded and passed.

Player Development Job description—Teri moved to accept the Player Development Job description as amended pending approval by Vicki. Seconded and passed.

Wed night game--Teri moved to discontinue the Wednesday night open game. Seconded and passed. This game has been losing money for the past year. The Board commends Bob Ross for all his efforts to keep this game going as well as his wife Peggy.

Play and Learn games—The Board was very favorable to the play and learn that has already been taking place simultaneously with the Club, Diamond and Heart series. The Board encouraged Dick to work out a plan for a “Master Class” program, having a Master Player of over 1000 points conduct the session. He will report back on this.
Dick moved to make the following changes to the standing rules, Education Program With Regards To Teachers.
Opening paragraph will read, whereas the Play and Learn Classes will consist of four weekly meetings, 2 hours each (add the following to the schedule) $25 per student for the class, or $7 for attendance at individual sessions.
# 6- add: A teacher for the Learn and Play Classes will receive $20.00 an hour for completed 2 hour sessions.
#3: All ACBL courses shall be taught By ACBL, accredited teachers, if available. Convention courses, not strictly following the ACBL courses may not necessarily need to be taught by ACBL, accredited teachers.
Need to renumber all other items.
Seconded and passed.

TAP payment, reimbursement, recruitment:
Dick moved to add to the standing rules, Education Program With Regards To Teachers, #14 Whereas the VCC needs, and will need in the future, new teachers, the VCC will pay the Teacher Accreditation Program fees for those candidates selected by the Director of Education and approved by the Board of Directors who complete the course and submit an invoice and copy of certification. In exchange, the successful candidates will make themselves available to teach when called upon for a period of 3 years from the date of the first series of classes after completion. This resolution is not retroactive. Seconded and passed.

Sheepshead: no motion made

Webmaster job description:
Teri moved to accept the job description as amended. Seconded and passed.

VCC Conventions: Discussion was held on a draft that was presented. Everyone was asked to review it carefully to take possible action at the Oct. meeting.

Constitution and Bylaws Changes: These 2 documents were reviewed for any changes necessary. These suggestions will be sent to the C&B committee to review and respond. Report will come to the Oct. meeting.

New Chair C&B Committee:
Betty moved to accept the appointment of Cindy Devish as the chair. Seconded and passed.

Audit Chair job description: Tabled until October.

Better Bridgers Analysis: presented by Allan, no action taken.

Treasurers Job Description: tabled until October.

Fee Schedule standing rules changes:
Dick moved to accept the changes as presented. These changes are, to combine the fee schedule documents into one, under game director it will read: The Club Manager (not game manager) may authorize reasonable payment for extended assignments; playing fees for non members will be $3.00, and for special events non members will be charged an up charge of $1 for the special event fee. Seconded and passed.

Conduct and Ethics Guidelines for Chair and club members:
Dick moved to accept the guidelines for the Chair as presented. Seconded and passed.
Teri moved to accept the guidelines for VCC members as presented. Seconded and passed.

Strata Changes for open games:
Betty moved to change the stratas for open games from open/1000/300 to open/1250/500. Seconded and passed. This change will better balance the game. Details of this change will be posted and put on the web site.

Life Master Party: Liz moved to authorize $150 for the life master party. Seconded and passed.

Game Manager Survey:
Marilyn moved to accept the game manager survey, amended to include the 0-299 (novice and intermediate) survey. Seconded and passed. Membership will be asked to fill these out.

Next meeting October 13,2006 (off premises) If a member wishes to attend please contact Ned.

Meeting adjourned at 5:30 PM.

Lois Schoenrock, Secretary (subject to board approval)