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MINUTES – BOARD OF DIRECTORS – DISTRICT 9
APRIL 24, 2010
SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL TOURNAMENT – 2010
HYATT REGENCY PIER 66 –
DIRECTORS PRESENT WERE:
Muriel Altus (128), Mary Bushawn (243) Proxy for Bill Rauld, Bette Cohn (102), Jane Formet (240), Betty Grandoff (128), Marshall Hall (128) Carol Hamilton (102), Janet Laudenslager (128), Jeff Overby (128), Bob Parlin (128), Linda Perlman (128), Betty Sandifer (128), Judy Schorner (240), Shirley Seals (128), Jayne Thomas (128), and Robert Todd (219) Proxy for Nancy Roberts.
DIRECTORS ABSENT WERE:
Harriet Eaton Morris (128), Bill Rauld (243), Nancy Roberts (219), Marianne Timmons (128), Jim Walker (243) and Virginia Waterfield (219).
ADVISORS PRESENT:
Shannon Cappelletti, Unit 128 Guest, Ellie Hanlon, Disciplinary Chair, Patty Johnson, Director in Charge, Steve Warner, Recorder, and Shirley Seals, District 9 Director.
ADVISOR ABSENT: Carla Burke, Education Liaison
The meeting of the District 9 Board of Directors was called to order by Jeff
Overby, President, at 10:00 a.m. April 24, 2010.
Motion was made to approve the Minutes from the Orlando District 9 Board Meeting held on January 8, 2010. Motion carried.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Shirley Seals
The Balance Sheet and the Profit and Loss Statement are dated March 31, 2010. The District 9 Operating Account has a balance of $11,018 with the increase due largely to unexpected income from The Regional at Sea. The Sunshine Bridge News has a balance of $36,502 which does not reflect expenses during the month of April pertaining to the May/June SBN i.e. Mailing cost of $3,500, and Joseph Clark’s balance due invoice of $7,350. Part of a maturing CD was moved to a Fall 2010 NABC Operating Account. Motion made to approve Treasurer’s Report. Motion carried.
GNT/NAP CHAIR COORDINATOR: Jayne Thomas
The GNT Finals will be the April 30 – May 2, 2010 in
All of the Registration Gifts and Prizes have been ordered and should be arriving very soon. These will be stored at the ACBL Headquarters and shipped to
DISTRICT 9 DIRECTOR’S REPORT: Shirley Seals
A new event is going to be held at the
The board voted to allow clubs to hold only One Special game per month, per sanctioned session. The masterpoint rating for these Special Games will be reduced from 100% Sectonally rated point to 70%. Effective Date is July 1, 2010.
I am serving on an ACBL Tournament Allocation Committee which meets every six years to review the policies for allocation of Regionals and Sectional tournaments. District 9 has had over 18,000 members for the past six months. I am working very hard to convince the committee to award another Regional Tournament to District 9 based on membership. The Committee is also considering awarding additional tournaments to District who have over 3,000 tables at one location in two out of three years. A District is not allowed to have more than nine (9) Regionals in one year.
DIRECTOR IN CHARGE REPORT: Patty Johnson
The tournament is up 7 ½ % as of Friday evening and it is anticipated that the Regional will exceed 1,900 tables . (Actual Table count was 1,968.)
Muriel would like to catch up with reporting the rank change in the upcoming issues of the SBN. All Unit Presidents offered to forego their traditional article in the SBN every other issue in order to make this possible. The Board gave Muriel a big vote of thanks and sincere appreciation for her excellent work in coordinating each issue of the SBN. Thanks to Muriel’s efforts, the Sunshine Bridge News is the envy of every other District within ACBL.
DISTRICT 9 GOODWILL REPORT: Carol Hamilton
The Goodwill Reception will be held at the PGA Regional on Friday, June 4th between sessions at 5:00 p.m. Bette Cohn and Carol will host the party....which means outstanding refreshments and lots of fun. In the absence of our President, Jeff Overby, Shirley Seals will award the Goodwill pins. All past ACBL and Regional Goodwill recipients are invited to attend the reception.
EDUCATION REPORT: Jeff Overby
Jeff explained that Carla was ill and unable to attend the meeting. Carla has just completed a Seminar to learn how to write requests for Grants for Youth and Juniors. She has been doing a fantastic job in recruiting Youth for the
Twenty-three youth from District 9 have signed up to play in the NABC and have requested the financial assistance which District 9 has offered. This is twice the number that we had last year and Carla will be in
Carla has asked that the board assist her in obtaining the NABC 2010 “Gator T-Shirt” for all of the Youth playing in the New Orleans NABC. She would like to put together a “welcome package” for each of the Youth attending the NABC which would include an Orlando NABC T-Shirt. She would also like to have the District subsidize a pizza Party for the Youth. Bette Cohn has volunteered to raise the money to pay for the T-Shirts, approximately $1,000. Carla will be asked to get the sizes of the Youth in question and get them to Bette.
The good news about the assessments to each of the Units to fund these programs is that CFFK (the 501©3 organization who handle our funds) in the first quarter of this year has earned $1,100. This is not money pertaining to the Units contribution. The current balance of our funds at CFFK is $46,000. Jeff asked that the board continue to contribute to the CFFK Fund for Education and Scholarship of our Juniors in future years. Our thanks to Jeff for his foresight into creating this Program and the fantastic legacy that he is leaving to District 9. The future plan is to have this fund create $100,000, whereby no further assessments to units will be necessary and programs can be operated with the investment income alone.
Carla would like to encourage the Youth to create Fund-Raisers to help defray costs of attending NABCs and other special events for Youth.
Every Unit should have a Youth Liaison. If your Unit does not have one, please ask your President to appoint one and report the name to Carla.
DISCIPLINARY CHAIR REPORT: Ellie Hanlon
Ellie has assembled a file of all of the Disciplinary Reports over the past years and Shirley Seals was asked to be the keeper of the Records.
RECORDER REPORT: Steve Warner
Steve reported that he and Jeff Overby will be sharing the duties of District Recorder. There are no Recorder issues to report; however, there have been many incidents of bad behavior and partner abuse at this Regional. Steve asked that board members try to nip this behavior in the bud when possible.
OLD BUSINESS:
ACBL Charity Grants to Units in District 9.
The ACBL Charity Foundation gave District 9 $30,000 to be given to local Charities. It was the decision of the board that Units 102, 219, 240, and 243 would received $5,000 each, and that because of the size of Unit 128, it would be given $10,000 in grant money. Each grant must be $5,000. The Unit 240 Grant to the I Am Ministries d/b/a The Source has been paid, Unit 102 Grant to the Tidewell Hospice has been requested, and Unit 128 approved a grant to Suncoast Voices for Children Foundation located in
NEW BUSINESS:
A Gold Rush Pairs event will be added to District 9 Regionals in 2010.
A problem has arisen in that it is difficult to obtain people to serve on Appeals Committees at our Regional tournament. Members are reluctant to serve on a committee which involves their friends or the normal late hour of the committee meeting would necessitate a long wait after the event they are playing in is over.
A motion was made by Marshall Hall, seconded by Betty Sandifer to give scrip for a Free Play to people willing to serve on an Appeals Committee at all District 9 Regional Tournaments. This Scrip can be used at later Regionals in District 9. This policy will begin with the 2010 PGA Regional. The scrip will be good for one year from Date of Issue. Motion passed unanimously .
Muriel was asked to publish this in the Sunshine Bridge News and the notice to be published in the Regional Daily Bulletin.
Meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.
Shirley Seals, Secretary
District 9