CHILLIWACK CURLING CLUB

MINUTES

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING

January 7^th, 2008

President Dick Allan called the regular meeting of the Board of Directors to order at 7:00 pm on January 7^th, 2008. Eleven directors were present.

Minutes:

Minutes of the November meeting were reviewed.

- Moved by Laura Watson, seconded by Jane Adam the November minutes be adopted as circulated. Carried.

Correspondence:

- Letter from the City of Chilliwack read regarding the club’s management

agreement which has been approved for another 5 years.

- Letter from Curl BC read regarding the selling of calendar raffle tickets by the

Optimist Club.

- BC Club Challenge deadline for entry Jan. 31 at $150 per team.

Treasurer’s Report:

- No report

Manager’s Report: Bruce Renwick

- Leagues are starting second half. Schedules are done and posted.

- Volunteer bartender lists have been posted for upcoming spiels. Help get the spots filled or will have to pay bartenders.

- Amanda is now on maternity leave and has een replaced by Mark Guthrie.

- There has been 2 resumes sent in for the ice tech job. Expecting more as other

Ice tech contracts end.

- BJ reconditioned the rocks again this morning(Jan.7) and will return later to show

us what he did. He talked to Danny about the runs in the ice. I don’t feel we can

run our last three major spiels with the ice conditions provided by Danny. I

suggest we bring in Ed Gilchrist to do the morning scrapes til the end of the

season.

Moved by Jane Arden seconded by Larry Simpson, we approve the

expenditure of $5,000.00 salary for Ed Gilchrist until end of season.

Carried.

- The club coach clinic is scheduled for this Saturday. There is still room for a

few more people, the junior program will pay for the registration fee.

- We absorbed some bar inventory last year form the Continental Cup, this will

show on the profit statement from now until end of season.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

Ice Committee:

- To meet with Danny

Building and Maintenance:

- Cascade has fixed the flaps on roof.

- City may help out with some of the cost of roof/building projects.

Bonspiels and Draws:

- Feb. 7-10 is the Men’s Spiel.

Finance and Funding Committee:

- No report

Memberships and Social:

- Moved by Jane Arden seconded by Lynne Wejr membership requests by

Terry and Pauline Cross be approved. Carried.

- Moved by Jane Arden seconded by Laura Watson the refund of membership

by Fred Phillips be approved. Carried.

Advertising and Sponsorship:

Junior Curling and Clinics:

- Juvenile playdowns are in Mission Jan. 11^th -13^th. Boys and girls team entered.

Old Business:

- RCMP advised it is up to each organization to determine requirements regarding

criminal record checks for its volunteers. There is no cost for check.

It was agreed that once a year would be adequate for record checks.

- Business of Curling seminar tentatively booked for Feb. 16th-17^th.

- Jane Adam brought some first aid kits to club, they are now in use.

New Business:

- Discussion re: new by-laws. Chris will revise draft and send out to board.

- Website: switched to a cheaper server- godaddy.com- $181 for 3 years.

- Possible to sell members an email address of -curlchwk.org

- Web design course a possibility.

Vice President’s Remarks: Chris Godwin

- None

Past President’s Remarks: Larry Simpson

- None

NEXT BOARD MEETING WILL BE FEBRUARY 4TH AT 7:00 PM.

Jane Arden adjourned meeting at 8:45 pm.