Meeting
Present:
John Christenson, Gary
Davis, Jim Gordon, George Elbert, Vic Shellenberg, Steve Orlick, Steve Pasadis,
Mike Duggan, Bob Andrews, Ralph Thomas & Wayne
Thompson
Absent: Stu Diamond
Call
to Order: 7:01 AM by Steve
Minutes: Were read and
approved.
Treasurer’s
Report: The Club has $3,398.53 in
the CD and $24,733.73 in the checking account for a total of $28,132.26. This
was not announced at the meeting, due to the overriding need for discussion on
next year’s tournaments, but is published here for informational purposes
relevant to the tournament discussion.
Publicity: No
report
NCGA:
No report
Membership:
No
report
Tournaments: No
report
Old
Business:
Due to the impending need to publish next year’s tournament calendar, Steve O.
asked the Board to devote the meeting to hashing out the details for next year’s
tournaments and, in particular, the format for next year’s Club Championship.
After distributing the results of the online survey, the table was opened to
discussion of how we could make the CC more attractive, both to the membership
at large and to the low handicappers who have been less and less involved in
recent years. After some discussion, the Board agreed that the process to
achieve both goals would probably take 4-5 years and that the best way to start
would be to respond to the obvious need to sweeten the pot a bit by having an
accelerating payout for the 1st weekend qualifiers and to minimize
the need for a perceived commitment by the players of 2 weekends by spreading
the semi finals and finals over the 2 following weekends with time of play to be
determined by the respective competitors with each succeeding Saturday to be the
deadline for play to be completed. This concept was voted on and approved,
albeit with some dissent, by the Board. It was decided to retroactively payout
some money to the 1st and 2nd place finishers in this
year’s CC. There was also talk of, once a new clubhouse is built, to have a more
formal recognition of the over Club Champion in some way-trophy, plaque,
etc.
There
was a shorter discussion of the Grand Prix, again based on research that Steve O
presented. It appears that there is a wide enough dispersion of moneys amongst
the membership during the preceding 6 years to warrant the continuation of the
GP. This was voted on and passed, also with some
dissent.
New
Business: The annual stuffing party
will be held at Steve O’s on Wednesday, 12/14.
Meeting adjourned at
Respectfully Submitted,
John Christenson, Secretary