CHILLIWACK CURLING CLUB

Minutes of Meeting held on September 21, 2011

 

ATTENDANCE:

Bobby Neids, Bruce Renwick, Gary Roberts, Dave Stephenson

 

AGENDA ITEM

DISCUSSION

ACTION

Call to Order

 

Meeting was called to order at 7:02 pm by the President Kim McLandress.

 

 

01.   Agenda

Moved by Lenneke Bowles and Seconded by Ron Magnusson        to accept the Agenda as amended.  CARRIED.

 

 

02.   Adoption of 

        Minutes

Moved by Larry Legault and Seconded by Lenneke Bowles to accept the minutes of the Board of Directors meeting held on August 23, 2011.  CARRIED

 

 

03.   Correspondence

None.

 

04.   OLD Business

04.1 Advertising & Collections

Lenneke advised approximately $5000 has been collected and there is still $8000 outstanding. Neil Sulkers is assisting with collections.

 

 

Collections ongoing.

 

04.2 Frank Jamieson Fundraiser Dinner- November 26 @ Friendly Mikes

The tickets have been printed and are downstairs. Promotion is going to start in the next 2 weeks.

 

 

 

 

04.3 New Board Member

There was a motion by Larry Legault and seconded by Ron Magnusson to appoint Dave Stephenson to the board for a one year term. CARRIED

 

05. NEW Business

05.1   Curl BC Meetings

Dick Allen attended the meeting to talk about our affiliation with Curl BC. He would like to see a board member or member attend the meetings which take place once a month on a Sunday.

Kim will email the board to see if someone is interested in attending Curl BC meetings. If not, Kim will email the general membership.

Kim will email the membership regarding the benefits of our membership with Curl BC.

 

06. Manager’s Report

-  Ice installation & painting finished ahead of schedule.

-  24 people took part in the Learn to Curl clinic which was run

   By Rick Jones & volunteers. 

- Still short on some teams.

- Thursday afternoon league postponed until after Christmas

- new stock and new look for Pro Shop

- Night leagues up and running

- Day leagues start next week and day ladies, the following week

- Curl BC request – Junior Regional Playdowns – Dec 4-6

- Curl BC Request – Ladies Coastal Playdowns – Dec 16-18

- Tap the Keg on Friday. Specials on Draught & Shooters

- Marshall (provincial) & Prinse (zone) teams received cheques

- Received cheque for $3400.00 from Masters for upgrades

 

Moved by Ron Magnusson and seconded by Dave Stevenson that we replace the fire alarm panel.    CARRIED

 

 

07.  Committee

       Reports

07.1 Executive: 

 Kim attended the Masters AGM to say thank you on behalf of the board.

The club was asked to host the junior regional’s in December and the executive decided this would be a great event for the club.

 

 

07.2 Finance/Treasurer: 

A copy of the financial report was given to each board member and Lenneke gave an overview of our financial situation. There were no questions.

 

 

 

 

07.3 Building/Facility Enhancement:

The Board is very appreciative of the funding provided by the Masters for the upgrades made on and off the ice.

Wendi will draft a thank you letter to be sent to the Masters for contributing to the betterment of the club.

 

 

07.4 Bonspiels & Leagues

A few teams still needed to fill out leagues, Bruce has been working on this.

The committee met to discuss the spiel schedule for the year:  Senior Mixed 50+ Spiel, Skins Spiel, Chilli Spiel, Men’s Spiel, and Mixed Spiel.

 

 

 

 

07.5 Membership Recruitment & Retention:

Kara Biersteker was not at the meeting we are still looking for a chair for this committee.

 

Kim will follow up with Kara.

 

07.6 Juniors & Clinics

Junior Clinic – Mon/Tues Sept. 26 & 27th @ 3:30 p.m.

 

 

It was moved by Gord Jackson & Ron Magnusson to give Rick Jones a $50 Gift Certificate for teaching the “Learn to Curl” clinic. CARRIED.

 

 

 

Bruce to purchase the gift card for Rick.

 

07.7 Revenue Generation:

Covered the collections in the financial report.

 

 

 

07.8  Social Committee

Tap the Keg happening this Friday.

Attend and promote this event.

 

 

07.9 Ice Conditions

There has been positive feedback about the ice so far and the board is appreciative of the hard work James has put in. One of the removable hacks was loose but this has been fixed. 

 

 

08. REMARKS

08.1 Past President: Larry Legault

Appreciation was expressed for the new icemaker’s work ethics and the Board asked Bruce to pass this appreciation along to him.      

 

 

08.2 Vice President: Andre Anglehart

Andre asked if it is possible to get name tags ordered for the board members which Bruce will do.

Our new ice maker needs to be added to the web site which Larry will do.

Andre also mentioned the possibility of getting an ATM or interact machine at the club. Bruce is looking into this.

 

08.3 President: Kim McLandress

Thanks to everyone on the board, Bruce and the staff for a great start to the season.       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bruce to order name tags for the board.

 

Larry will add James to the web site.

 

 

Bruce to follow up on potentially getting an ATM.

09. NEXT MEETING

The next meeting is scheduled for Wed. Oct 19th at 6:30 pm.

 

 

 

10. ADJOURNMENT

The meeting was adjourned at 7:45pm by Kim McLandress

 

 

 

 

_______________________                                            ________________________

Kim McLandress, President                                            Adam Dyck, Acting Secretary