CBA board meeting April 15, 2014
Meeting was called to order at 5:05 PM. Present were
Stephani, Moese, Wisner, Meinking, Mess,
Manne, Purcell and Sonya Wilson by
telephone. Also present Orr.
Meetings of the previous meeting as distributed and
adjusted were approved.
We started with a review of the 3 priorities:
1. The communication newsletter and master plan seems to
be moving on schedule. Steve Moese reported good progress in receiving
contributions to the newsletter. There was some discussion of the details a
weekly email blasts and the matter was referred to co-webmasters Moese and Orr.
2. The Comer committee has met and is working on a plan
to find additional directors for games at CBC. No specific progress with the Comers
has been reported.
3. Pres. Stephani sent an email to the board with links
to several existing documents concerning the structure of CBA and the running
of CBC. Questions were entertained on the existing structure and answered.
There was further discussion of what the structure of the CBA/CBC combination
might look like in 5 years. It was noted that the existing lease expires in
February 2017 so some arrangements will have to be made for space after that
time - either renewing the existing lease or finding a new location. A number
of different possible structures for CBA and the CBC were discussed and Pres.
Stephani will summarize those the email to the board for consideration at
future meeting.
Presidents report:
Pres. Stephani asked the full board to pass a motion to
ratifying a decision made by the executive committee. Motion was to make John Meinking
the investment director for CBA. The motion was seconded and passed
unanimously.
The awards party was deemed a success with 21 tables in
attendance. In addition to most of the award recipients, the wife and sister of
recently deceased member Al Fultz came to accept his prizes. Prompted by Steve Moese,
a motion was made in past to give thanks from the board to all of those who
helped make the awards party a success including but not limited to AJ
Stephani, Stephanie Richardson, Everett Kitchen, Patrick Hoffman, Barb
Levinson, Elaine and Ron Jarchow.
Treas.’s report:
Treasurer Wisner sent a financial report via email.
Results so far this year compared to similar time period last year are not
good. Our table count has suffered so far this year from a number of weather
based cancellations including a number of them for Deschapelles. In addition,
last year’s results benefited from several one time positive items that were
not repeated this year. As part of the discussion, it was noted that we are
currently paying around $50,000 a year in rent and common area fees for our
space.
Education committee:
May 3rd at the bridge center we will hold and
another event for beginning players, called New to Bridge. We will be
advertising this via flyers distributed to the various bridge game locations in
Cincinnati. Committee chair Mike Purcell requested that the board authorize
$250 for advertising in the suburban newspapers for this event (the $250 is our
portion of the $1000 total less the expected ACBL rebate). The motion was
seconded and passed
Tournament committee:
Reminded everyone of the regional coming up in early
June. All board members were asked to promote the regional in general but
especially participation of local members and team games. The committee
believes that the easiest way to get additional tables from local players is to
get people to play an extra session. Signing up for extended day team games is
the easiest way to do that. Adrienne Netherwood will be the partnership chair
this year working with Joanne Earls and Chris Hastie. Also noted was the
nonlife master sectional is coming up in late May. The first northern Kentucky
sectional is in mid-August (replacing the Middletown sectional). In support of
that tournament we will close the bridge center on the Friday and Saturday of
that sectional as we have traditionally done to support the Middletown sectional.
Sonya Wilson reported that we are presently out of the
little notecards that we send to welcome new members that she requested and
received approval to order another batch of the hundred cards complete with the
free play cards that we send to new members.
Meeting was adjourned at about 6:40 with a reminder of
the next meeting on May 20