DMBC Board Meeting January 21, 2008

The meeting was called to order by President John Sterling at 5:00 P.M.

The following Board Members were in attendance:

Bruce Ohmann

Frank Fisher

Bob Renuart

Lynn Brown

Chris Murray

Doris Katz

Chet Masztak

Barbara King

June Byrne – Head Director

The minutes of the previous meeting were approved.

Bruce gave the Treasurer’s report which was approved. He also stated that our table count is down from last year. The revenues from the sectional tournament were down about $500.00 from last year. He noted that the table count was down in the Thursday tournament game. The club cannot switch the tournament dates per ACBL and June suggested that we need to get more advertising out earlier for this tournament to promote it.

Directors Report – June said the Monday lesson game is going well. A motion was made and carried to pay half pay for an assistant director for this Monday class. Spike’s lessons have been switched to Friday mornings. Last Thursday we had 141/2 tables for our afternoon game. June felt the reduced fee to $3.00 was part of the interest in the game. June requested that limited pairs that switch to the open game to fill a half table be given a free play. It was approved to do so at the time of occurrence. Pat Heading has accepted the position of Club Manager for the Palm Coast Bridge Club. He will stall continue to work at our club a couple of days a week and will manage our Sectionals.

June stated that we are in dire need of Directors. June will be holding director classes for a few students beginning in March. Chris Murray asked how ACBL nonmembers are stratified at a game. June replied that this is at the discretion of the Director as some players have stopped recording points with ACBL but have reached a higher level of play.

Committee Reports – John said a plumbing problem surfaced during the Tournament around the kitchen area and has not resurfaced since then. We are doing further investigation..

The Tournament report by Pat Heading indicated that many compliments were received on the food service. A special thanks again to Judy McCall and her team for an excellent job in the kitchen, Shirley Townley for coordinating the donations of snacks, and to all members who donated snacks and gave of their time to make this tournament successful. It was a team effort by all. Pat had a visit from our neighbor at the recreation center next door requesting more parking places for his function. We accommodated by moving some of our cars. An effort will be made to coordinate events in the future.

As of this date we have 270 paid members.

John stated that we are still working on retaining our tax exempt status. Alan Byrne has been working real hard on this.

Doris contacted the News Journal about getting some community information about our club under the Bridge column in the newspaper. She was told that this will be there a few days a week as a public service. Doris would also like to see our games listed in the Go-Do section of the paper on Fridays.

Old Business = Gail Rust has purchased new calendar boards for the wall. They are in place and now in use.

New Business – It was approved to give Judy McCall a $50.00 gift certificate for all her hard work for the tournament. It was also approved to buy a utility cart per Judy’s request for the kitchen

Doris stated that the fan in ladies room is noisy and needs repair or replacement. She has also contacted the city regarding the lack of a street sign for Driftwood Avenue on Atlantic Avenue. Out of town people were unable to find our Club because there was no street sign. She was told the city would take care of it.

Frank stated that some cleaning supplies need to be kept in the Men’s room.

Our next meeting will be February 18, 2008.

The meeting was adjourned at 6:00 P.M.

Barbara King

Secretary