April 25, 2007

 

Minutes of the Board of Director’s Meeting, Unit 215, South Alabama Bridge Assn.

 

CALL TO ORDER

President Fran Krizman called the meeting to order at 2:00 p.m.  Present were Fran, Bill Barton, Nancy Hora, Bill McGlasson, Barbara Slaughter, Margaret Miller, and Ed Stephens.  

Absent were Jean White and Nan Watson.

 

MINUTES

Last month’s minutes were approved as distributed. 

 

TREASURER’S REPORT

The treasurer’s report was accepted as distributed.   

 

MEMBERSHIP REPORT

No report.

 

OLD BUSINESS

 

            Tournament Report and special games:  Nancy reported that the directors for our Sectional have been assigned.  She also reported that the Charity Game will be May 18th; the World Wide Game will be June 2nd.  And, she will post the dates for the NAOP games on the back bulletin board. 

 

Clean up of Property:  Bill McGlasson contacted Hughes Irrigation concerning our sprinkler system, but they have not returned his calls.  Our system needs a master control value.  After discussion, Fran said she will call the company she does business with, Quality, and have the person she uses look into fixing our system.

            Bill also mentioned that we need to clean the leaves out of the gutters.  He will look into that.     

 

District 10 Representative’s Upcoming Visit:  Bill Cook, our representative will be in Mobile on Wednesday, May 16th and would like to meet with the Board at that time.  The Board agreed to move our May meeting to the third Wednesday, rather than the fourth Wednesday, to accommodate Bill’s schedule. 

 

Mobile Bridge Center Club:  Bill is continuing to look into Incorporating and the By-Laws.  He referenced the Jackson Bridge Association’s By-Laws.  We will discuss this at a later date.

 

NEW BUSINESS 

 

            Financial Situation:  Ed brought up the financial position of the Club.  He stated that he thinks we should stop the pay back at all the games each week.  The Minutes of the December meeting were referenced.  At that meeting, the members supported that position rather than raising the fee to play. 

 

After discussion, Ed made the motion, seconded by Barbara Slaughter, that we eliminate pay back for all games effective May 1, 2007.

           

District 10 Representative:  Since Howard McDonald is moving, we need a representative from our unit to attend the District 10 meetings.  After discussion, it was agreed that we would postpone this decision until the next district meeting and at that time we will look into getting someone to go.

 

            Other items:  Various members of the Board brought up items that we might want to put on the agenda for future meetings:  the lost of Howard McDonald means the lost of a director, so we could have director problems in the near future; attendance at certain games, for example, Thursday and Saturday games; use of the clock; non-paying directors.  No action was taken on these matters.

           

            The meeting was adjourned at 2:45 pm.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

 

Margaret Miller

Secretary