Meeting was called to order by President Irving at 2:10 PM
Attending: Ned Irving, Lois Schoenrock, Teri LaBove, Betty Schultz, John Wild, Mabel Serpa, Fran Bazemore, Vonna Fischer, Marilyn Biegler, and Diana Podawiltz
Absent: Andy Cosby
Guests: 6 were in attendance
The agenda was approved with the deletion of discussion on the Monday Mixer
The minutes of the May 11 meeting were approved with no corrections or additions.
Correspondence:
What was received was presented.
There was a thank you letter from Teen Challenge for the club contribution to them.
A letter voicing concern over employees being asked to sign whether they wished to be paid once or twice a month was discussed. It is true that Arkansas law states employees must be paid twice a month but the state also realizes that it is an unenforceable policy and does not really try to enforce it. Signing this form just helps protect the club in the event it should ever be questioned.
Officer Reports:
Treasurer: report distributed and posted.
President:
Ned led discussion on the POA and the AED program. This will be further investigated.
Publicity—Marilyn reported that the newsletter will be out next week.
Education—John gave a report on the meeting with Dick Heil from the Little Rock Club about the education programs. They feel a strong education program is the key ingredient to grow a club, and they have impressive growth numbers in membership and table count as a result.
John has 1 or 2 volunteers to take the training to become teachers.
Vonna—stated she has a volunteer to train as a director
Old Business:
Proposal from Ed Hamparian—Lois moved that we try the idea for the 0-2000 Swiss Team games in July and August on the 3rd Sunday with Ed as director. Seconded by Teri. Passed.
New Business:
Player Development Manager Change. Betty moved and Marilyn seconded that Becky Rice be appointed the Player Development Director for the 6 months left in the term vacated by Vicki Jennings. Passed by unanimous vote.
NAP 49er games—Discussion was held on the fact that ACBL does not offer 299er NAP. It will be communicated that these games will be 0-500 NLM games. Please note that all games on the schedule with the designation NLM-NAP will be 0-500 NLM games as indicated on the schedule in the book. ACBL designates September 49er games as NAP games at no extra charge to the players and they will receive red points.
Peg Birzer gave a presentation on encouraging Swiss Team Play in the 0-199 group.
Diana moved and John seconded to have a non sanctioned 0-199 game on the first Sunday in July and August to become sanctioned in September. Passed by unanimous vote. Peg will lead this game. The purpose will be to teach the group some of the basics of team games i.e. scoring etc., and to build interest in this type of event.
Sunday games—The 4th Sunday will remain a unit team game.
Upgraded Club Championship Game—Diana moved, seconded by Marilyn to hold this game on July 19. It will be at the $2 rate and will have travelers.
Donation to the Card Club—Louallen Leach has made a very generous offer to donate to the club for resale to raise funds for the club the original 1st 8 chapters of Max Hardy’s Bridge in the 21st Century. Discussion was held on how and when we should handle this. A big thank you goes to Louallen.
Parliamentarian job description discussion—tabled
The major part of the meeting was discussion on the drop in table count.
299ers 16% drop Tues 299 11%
Bridge Plus 31% Mon 299 21%
Fri open 26% Sat PM 10%
The board came up with a list of 12 possible reasons for the drop. These were then rated to determine the top 4 to focus on. Possible solutions were explored and are under development. This will be an ongoing process.
The membership needs to know that this is not just a challenge for the board and our game directors but they too need to do their part by helping us be aware of the issues, by encouraging others to play more often at the club, and by doing everything they can to help us provide the best possible playing atmosphere as we can to both our partners and the opponents.
Next meeting—July 6, 2007 at 2:00.
Meeting adjourned at 5:20 PM.
Lois Schoenrock, Secretary Subject to board approval.