Bennett Valley Golf Club
Meeting 04/05/08

Present: Vic Shellenberg, Steve Pasadis, John Christenson, Gary Davis, Mike Duggan, Jeff Goering, Jim Gordon, David Marquez, Wayne Thompson & Tony Conrardy. Elliott Funk was voted onto the Board by acclimation.

Absent: Ed Dominquez & Ralph Thomas

Call to Order: 7:05 AM by Vic.

Minutes: Were read and approved.

Treasurer’s Report: We have $3,502.30 in the CD and $38,522.75 in the checking account for a total of $42,025.05. Our accounts receivables for the month were $830.00 and the accounts payable were $4,235.00 in tournament payouts for a net loss of $3,405.00.

Dave received a package from the USGA that included a DVD covering various topics, a schedule of USGA Tournaments and the latest edition of the Decisions on the Rules of Golf. It will be deposited in our file cabinet for future use, if necessary.

Publicity: Steve reported that the website is current and that it receives an average of 80-90 hits/day. He also commended one of the players in the last tournament who, upon realizing that his team had been awarded by error second place instead of the seventh place they actually held, notified Steve of the discrepancy. Honesty prevails.

NCGA: Vic announced that this upcoming Zone meeting will be held at Edgewood in South Lake Tahoe. It will be (or probably have been) limited to the first 64 applications.

Jeff did some research on the maximum handicap requirements for the NCGA tournaments and discovered that the maximum was 18.4 Index, not handicap, in the eyes of the NCGA. After contacting them, he presented to the Board the alternative of using the index, rather than handicap, for the limiting factor in NCGA tournaments. The Board decided to keep our limits where they have been and rely solely on a maximum 18 handicap.

Membership: Although Ralph was absent again, he did e-mail Steve and Vic with the report. We in fact have 595 members.

Tournaments: The NCGA Net Amateur will be held next weekend. We have 32 foursomes with tee offs starting at 7:30. Dave and Tony will be working the tournament.

Mike once again brought up the option of using the blue tees for this and all other NCTGA qualifying tournaments, based on his feeling that, by using the longer tees, we as a Club would be sending a more competitive team onward to the next levels. There was thoughtful discussion on this and, after weighing the issue, the Board voted to maintain the white tee format for the qualifiers.

Gary suggested strongly that we, as a Board and supposedly an example, should maintain our published pace of play guidelines so that the members who happen to have later tee off times are not burdened with 5 ½ hour rounds. This led to some discussion on pace of play, but the Board, realizing that that horse is still beaten dead, went with Gary’s initial recommendation.

Steve wanted to re-establish the procedure for the tournament scoring and payouts, since the post of Treasurer had passed from George to Dave. Dave will drop the check off to the pro shop during the following week. It was also suggested that the results, which are now hand delivered back to Steve with the computer after the final scoring has been completed, now be transmitted to him via the Internet and the computer be picked up from the course at a more convenient time. There was some trepidation voiced about this method. Steve will look into it.

Old Business: None

New Business: Dave wanted to know if the Board wished to take advantage of the opportunity to have a plaque made by the USGA for a small fee denoting our membership in the organization. The Board opted not to make the purchase.

Steve wanted to make sure that the Board arrives at a decision at the next meeting regarding the format for the Club Championship. The Board decided that this was timely and that at the next meeting this issue will be resolved.

Meeting adjourned at 7:55

Respectfully Submitted,

John Christenson, Secretary