American Contract Bridge
League Unit 522 – Fresno, Inc.
A Non-profit Corporation
Serving
February 7, 2010
DIRECTORS PRESENT: Richard
Meffley, Kay Chrisman, Laura DaCosta, Dora
Gostanian, Jill Wood, Michael Molinari, Doris
Frazer, Linda Coppersmith, John Simpson and Bert Rettner.
GUESTS PRESENT: Paul Boyd, Margaret Mahaffey
Richard Meffley called
the meeting to order at 11:00 a. m.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
The
minutes of the January 3, 2010 meeting of the Board were read and discussed. Jill Wood made a motion seconded by Linda
Coppersmith to approve the minutes as corrected. The Board unanimously approved
the minutes.
TREASURER’S REPORT: John
Simpson first thanked Paul Boyd for all his help during the transition to a new
treasurer. He then reported on the January,
2010 Profit and Loss.
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Net Income for the month was -$1,829.27.
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John reported that the Unit brings in $11.10 per
table in rent from Club Owners. In the
past, $4 was allocated to the Building Fund, but this has not happened in
several months. John wanted to be
assured that this reallocation of funds was by Board Approval. John was assured that when the decision was
made to lease the new facility, the Board voted unanimously to change the
allocation of the $4 from the Building Fund to the Clubhouse fund to help pay
the increase in rent.
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John asked that a discussion of how to address the
monthly shortfall due to increased rent payments be placed on the March Board
meeting agenda. All Board members
agreed.
A motion was offered by Jill
Wood, seconded by Bert Rettner to approve the Treasurer’s report and the Board
unanimously approved the motion.
EDUCATION RECRUITMENT COMMITTEE:
Michael Molinari reported the start of a Class on Defense will begin
February 20, 2010 and beginning lessons will start again in May, 2010.
CLUBHOUSE:
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Kay Chrisman reported that she was able to purchase a computer program
that would allow access to club computers from her home. The RealVNC server program is now installed
on both computers at the clubhouse and the VNC viewer is installed on her home
computer. The cost of the program was
only $60, well below the approved dollar amount. However, when there is a loss of power to the
wireless router at the clubhouse, a new IP address is assigned to the router
which means that the viewer from home can no longer access the servers at the
clubhouse. To correct this problem, it
was necessary to change the AT&T internet account to a “STATIC” account
which provides a constant IP address that will not change with power
outages. This change to the account will
increase the phone bill by $15 per month.
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Because there has been no response from the property manager regarding
the carpet cleaning, Kay reported that she prepared a package of correspondence
and Lease agreement for John McGregor‘s advice on how to proceed. After reviewing the material, John will make
his recommendations for Board approval.
SECTIONALS:
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Michael Molinari reported that we have located a very large Suite in the
complex to rent along with the restaurant for the upcoming Sectional.
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Jill Wood advised of her conversation with the Diane, Director in Charge
for our Sectional. Jill discussed with
Diane how we would like the Sectional run and advised Michael to “hold our
ground” with Diane to obtain the results we want.
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It was suggested that the Friday afternoon game during the sectional be a
Mary Jo Davila Memorial game and that this become an annual event in this
Sectional. The Board unanimously agreed
that because of the hard work Mary Jo has put into the hospitality at all
Sectionals and special events, this would be an appropriate honor to her
memory.
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Jill Wood turned over to Michael, her list of prizes for the Sectional.
NEW BUSINESS:
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ROSTER: Jill Wood reported on the
progress in preparing the new roster. It
was suggested and agreed upon by the Board that a separate section be included
for non-member names and phone numbers
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DISTRICT 21 GOOD WILL SELECTION FOR 2010: Richard Meffley advised that the Unit’s nomination of Kay Chrisman for
the District 21 Good Will award was a winner of the award. Richard announced that Kay could attend the
award ceremony in
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REPLACEMENT OF BOARD MEMBER FOR VACANT
SEAT: The Board agreed to table this discussion for next
month’s meeting due to insufficient time for discussion.
Because the first few Sundays in March are
already scheduled with other events, the March, 2010 meeting of the Board of
Directors will be on March 28, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at the
AS THERE WAS NO FURTHER BUSINESS TO DISCUSS, THE
MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 12:00 pm.