General Membership Meeting Minutes s2

BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES 7 AUGUST 2008

Commodore Schultz called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM

Excused Absences: None

Motion was duly made and seconded and passed to adopt the Board of Directors Meeting Minutes of July 10 2008. Motion carried.

REPORT OF DIRECTORS

Director Gray: No Report.

Director Peretti: Website is still going well; more color has been added. Includes information as it’s received, so be sure to let Director Peretti know if you have anything to add. The Water Under The Bridge is out; please continue to send articles to him each month. He has been e-mailing the newsletter out to the membership. He downloaded a data source for all of Contra Costa County for all of the Coast Guard registered or documented boats 25’ and up. They have mailing addresses, so we could do a mailer to try to gain new members. Discussed ideas to improve the Club and increase membership.

Staff Commodore Urzua: Sent letter to Mike Fleming in response to his letter to charge us $1 to use his road. Asked him to send us a bill. REPORT OF OFFICERS

Fleet Captain Rzepecki: The cruise-out to Rio Vista is tomorrow. It’s $20/night per boat. We’ll do hors d’oeuvres Saturday at 12:30, play some lawn games in the afternoon, and have a nice barbecue dinner with chicken, ribs, corn on the cob, garlic bread, salads and desserts. The cruise-out to Stockton Yacht Club is September 12th – 14th. They are not doing the flag ceremony after all. October 3rd – 5th we are cruising to Pittsburg Yacht Club. Caliente Yacht Club will be there too.

Treasurer Cobb: Received a note from Bank of America credit card services that our credit card machine is not up to code. They need someone to call them so they can dial in and do the upgrade. It will take an hour. Director Gray said she would do it. Will pay the NCPCA dues. Oakley Disposal is going up 7%. Paid the land lease for $711, as well as the unsecured property taxes. We have approximately $9,000 in the bank, but still have to pay the Hospice donation. Most of the participation fees have been paid, but they are still some that are outstanding. The budget committee will get together before the next meeting. The committee includes Treasurer Cobb, P/C Wally Young and Georgine Shunk.

Rear Commodore Dickinson: We made a lot of money at the last two parties. We had a few problems with bartenders, but it worked out. Still looking for volunteers to work Saturday nights. The new bartender, Debbie, who worked the second wedding reception, is available to help out when needed.

Vice Commodore Rowland: July was a whirlwind. The parties overall were a big success. Reviewed the calendar: August 8th – 10th is the Cruise-Out to Rio Vista; the 22nd is the General Membership meeting; September 4th is the Board meeting’ the 12th – 14th is the cruise-out to Stockton Yacht Club; the 26th is the General Membership meeting; the 27th is Club Clean-Up Day; October 11th is Georgine Shunk’s 60th high School Reunion; December 6th is the Jensen family 50th anniversary party, and the 13th is the Singles Over 40 Christmas party.

Commodore Schultz: Since no one volunteered to be on the nominating committee, Commodore Schultz has assigned the four past Commodores: Evelyn Gray, Fred Goodwin, Wally Young and Susan Urzua. Fleet Captain Jim Rzepecki will continue as Fleet Captain; Chuck Dickinson, P/C Evelyn Gray, Lee Peretti and Georgine Shunk will be Directors. No one else has stepped forward to fill the other positions. Felt that we made some progress tonight with the party planner.

NEW BUSINESS

Member Dave Camp read some ideas he and Sandy put together to improve things at the Club. The Board thanked him and said they would take some of his suggestions into consideration.

P/C Wally Young made his suggestion for the dues structure for next year. He recommended we drop the annual dues to $400, and do monthly Bridge Bucks for $75 or $100 per month. Members would get back the full amount in Bridge Bucks. Discussion followed.

Vice Commodore Rowland introduced Lessee Scoggins who would like to help us with party planning for outside parties. She has some good ideas and connections in the community. Discussion followed on how this would work, and how we would pay her, and some of the tax laws for outside parties. Motion made and seconded to give Lessie a chance with the Kiwanis party.

P/C Wally Young asked what our plans were for next year about having an accountant. Motion made, seconded and passed to look into getting a bookkeeper.

Motion made and seconded to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried and meeting was adjourned at 9:37 PM

Respectfully Submitted,

Susan Urzua Staff Commodore