Charlotte Bridge Association

                               Minutes of the July 11th  2007 Board Meeting

 

  

The Board of Directors of the Charlotte Bridge Association met on Wednesday  July 11th, 2007 at 4:30pm  at 510 East Park Avenue.  Jerry Pontius, Martha Jean Marshall and Harold Winecoff were absent, All other Board members were present.   Janet Case, was in attendance.  The meeting was called to order by the President.        

 The Minutes of the June 2007 meeting were read and approved.     

TREASURERS Report:  Don Lassiter gave the Treasurer's report in Jerry's absence.    We are still under budget for all the improvements at Latta.  

OLD BUSINESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  

1927 Club   July 15th- Special Event  Jean is the coordinator with the 4 women sponsoring this game. Posters are up and invitations have been sent out. . Loaves and Fishes is the charity. There  will be a catered luncheon before the game. Over 100 people have signed up.  Janet has volunteered her services to direct this game and donate her fee to Loaves and Fishes Charity. 

Latta Rec Center Update:    Some problems with adjusting the air conditioner. Jerry is addressing these.  There is also investigation into providing a parking pad at the side of the building, So far, it looks very expensive -first estimate $20,000 for 10 spaces.  This is still being investigated.

 Don will check and see if perhaps members could be allowed to park on Winthrop. Now there is a no parking sign, but perhaps the city would remove that.

All of the improvements came in under budget, so at this points it looks like we do not need to use any dollars from the Vanguard account.  The budget for Latta expenses was $138,000, at this point we are under 120,000- actual expenses.

More trash cans were purchased. A new monitor and printer were purchased.There is discussion about the need for a PA system and perhaps overhead fans for the side room. .

Sectional Tournament   We were pleased that  Jane Felton has volunteered to Chair our next sectional tournament .  Jane is using the list of action items that  Jerry Pontius provided and working on making procedures for the event. She is interviewing many involved in past tournaments to gather the information.  Jerry's  document will be expanded upon for future tournaments.   The next Sectional will be June 15th , 2008. Many duties start long before the tournament, especially related to publicity.  

Name Tags  More discussion on name tags, would people wear them, what type should we get.

 

 

NLM tournament will be August 23rd -26th, 2007  Harold and Carol Winecoff are the Chairs.They will need caddies and volunteers to bring food.  If any members would like to volunteer to caddy that would be appreciated.

 Fall 2007  Regional  10-/22-10/28 2007    Len Case  Janet said the rooms at the hotel are filling up quickly.

Harold and Carol are working on the prizes for the Regional. Mid Atlantic must be printed on each prize.

Awards Day  was held on Saturday June 30th, 2007.  Jane Smith chaired this event and did a super job. Jane and Martha Jean worked to  have the wall plaques updated and hung. A hot dog lunch was provided.

 Jerry Pontius Daywas held on July 4th,  A nice lunch was served and many attended to honor Jerry for all he has done to provide the membership with such a fine playing site. He was presented with a picture of the building and many of the members signed the picture as a remembrance for Jerry.

Library     Celia Johnson  and Anne Allen will work on the library.  Martha Jean, Jane and Jean will work with them. The Library will be located in the room behind the break room.

NEW BUSINESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

 Harold Winecoff sent a letter resigning from the Board for personal reasons. His resignation was accepted. He and Carol will still chair the NLM tournament.

Publicity  Memphis Headquarters still talking about doing an article in the Bulletin on our new playing site-- we have sent them some information and pictures.. Gretchen forwarded Jerry's pictures to Memphis and will send pictures from the 1927 Party. 

Curtains for the Teaching Room   One of the Winecoff's students volunteered to make curtains for the Teaching room, We appreciate the offer, but  Martha Jean, responsible for the building changes is not ready to make a decision on what window cover we require. We think some type of blinds, but she will investigate that.

Club Manager Study Committee   Forming, nothing to report , too many members on vacation.

We will schedule a meeting in August.

 

New Directory  Gretchen is the Board contact,  working with Anne Thompson on the new Directory

Membership Report  Janet gave the report for our Unit, 2 new members, 4 transfers in and 1 out,. and 5 reinstated. Janet send letters to new members, welcoming them and  inviting them to visit the Latta Center.

Publicity   The Charlotte paper and Dilworth paper were sent  information about the Club and the 1927 Party.

 

Internet Service  Michael has not been able to find a reasonable cost for Internet service for the Club. We are treated as a business and that comes at a high cost.

The next meeting will be at the Latta Center, Wednesday, August 8th at 4:30pm.


There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:30

Respectfully submitted,

Jean Davis, Secretary