Minutes
Meeting called to order 635pAttendees:
Dave Slocum, Dave Straight, Tom Hamilton, Camden Farmer, Alex Johnson, Max Maclay, John Bird, Marsha Sonderfan, Dan Gargan, Joe Haman, Chad Francis and Jay Burghardt
November minutes approved by vote
Elections - Voting was open for the two previous weeks to fill in the 4 board member spots that would be becoming vacant on Jan 1st. Jay Burghardt requested the results simply state the top four vote getters. Joe Haman requested that each candidate's number be read aloud. It was discussed, and the majority decided to read the numbers aloud and be posted.
Candidate Votes
Camden Farmer 57
Chad Francis 56
Dave Straight 46
John Bird 40
Jay Gibbs 25
Dave Slocum 15
The top for vote getters will become board members on Jan 1st, for a three year term.
The board thanked both Dave and Joe for service to the club, and reminded them they are always welcome to attend the meetings, as all club members are.
Website updates - Chad spoke of the website. He mentioned the "poll" feature was up and running and seemed to be working well. He updated the mobile interface. He is still hoping to get the singular sign on log for all members. He said that he might have to shut down the forum for a short while to bring the new forum on line. He said he could run two 'parallel' forums while the new one was gotten used to by the members.
Financials - We had no Ken, but he sent out a checks and balance sheet, and the club is still looking good, in the black.
Dave Straight has volunteered to be the Tagmaster for 2012. He informed the board that the player's packages are coming together. The patches should be in soon, and the stickers are still being worked on. Dave announced that he will be running the first tag match. Chad set up the website so people could sign up in advance if they wanted. The first set of tags will be handed out at the first tag match to those who participate in the event. If others have signed up but are not in attendance, they will get whatever tag number would come up next.
Joe asked who on the board would take the extra merchandise he has picked up from Memberships and TDing. Camden stepped up and agreed to take all the items.
Joe also asked who wanted to take over the keys to the Interlocken course baskets. No one jumped at that, so for now he will hold on to them until someone asks for them.
Spring Fling - It was decided, after last year's successful Fling, that there would again be a Pro Fling, and an Am Fling. The weekend will be April 14, and April 15th. Marsha said she would like to put the order in for the discs by Jan 10th to avoid any kind of rush. She asked for ideas on player pack options, as well as thoughts on trophies. She announced that registration would open on March 1st.
RMWDGC - Doug spoke of the upcoming Rocky Mountain Women's Disc Golf Championship. He confirmed the date would be June. It will be B tier this year. It will be held at the new private pay to play course at Colorado Heights University. He passed out a fact sheet for the event, listing dates, costs, sponsor information and an assorted other facts and figures. It was spectacularly done for something so far in advance. Registration will open Jan 2, 2012.
It was agreed that Juniors (13 and under) would once again be covered by the Junior fund from Mile High Disc Golf Club. It was put up to vote whether we should put a cap on the number of juniors, or simply pay for any and all under 13 juniors. It was approved to pay for all. It was also decided to add a check box to the registration if people would like to donate $5.00 to the junior fund, which would help cover the costs of the sponsorship.
Colorado States - John Bird announced that he is hoping to have MHDGC take the reins of the State tourney this year. He would like to see it held out at Ft Morgan. Alex Johnson brought up an idea that perhaps the tourney this year could be a 4 course event, "sponsored" by several different clubs. Thinking a Pueblo/Widefield then a Sakuna/Jellystone would be a very intriguing concept, many people on the board began the discussion. It was agreed that if someone wanted to look into that concept, it could be explored, but Mr. Bird didn't think something that large could be pulled off smoothly without much planning way ahead.
2012 Schedule - John Bird gave us a tentative overview of the next years events that he has received dates on.
Feb 4 - Soup R Food Bowl
March 24-25 Hero's Huck - Pueblo
April 14-15 Spring Flings - Arvada
May 12-13 Grateful Disc - Ft. Collins
May 19 Rodnoc - Birds Nest
June 2-3 Sakuna Pines -
June 9-10 High Plains Challenge - Ft. Morgan
June 30 RMWDGC - Denver
Aug 18-19 Telluride
Sep 3 Ace Race
Sep 15-16 Colorado States - Ft Morgan
Oct 6-7 Johnny Roberts - Arvada
These are all tentative