Meeting called to order @6:10. In attendance board members, Patty Kadel,
Jim Lalone, John Klindt, Patti Renfro, Terri Jo Bonbright & Susan Guz
Minutes taken by Jim Lalone.
Reviewed minutes from September 2, 09 board meeting. Minutes approved.
Terri Jo Bonbright was nominated as Vice President, board members voted,
Terri Jo Bonbright elected as Vice President. Sam McEnany was nominated to
replace Craig Schultz as a board member, Sam elected into the board. Jim
Lalone invited board members to nominate a Secretary, none provided,
therefore in review of the By Laws, the president can appoint a Secretary.
Jim Lalone has elected to have remaining non-officers of the board rotate
as Secretary to provide taking minutes during board meeting. This will
start next meeting and continue until a Secretary is elected.
Financial report provided by Patty Kadel as follows: Report emailed to all
board members, year end closed in the black. Live events for the year
deficit of $2500.00. Dance Camp numbers were compared.
Topic: 2010 Dance Camp. Board needed to vote on if Dance Camp was going to
take place in 2010. Board Members voted, all agreed therefore 2010 Dance
Camp was approved by the board. Tabled for next meeting, budget for 2010
Dance Camp. Jamie Morgan has agreed to chair the 2010 Dance Camp and will
provide her budget for boards review. John Klindt suggest the idea that
Dance Camp date be moved, will review next meeting along with information
from Dance Camp Committee.
Topic: Membership. Membership as of date (3 months into new-year) 120 to
130 now end of 2008 - 2009 membership number around the 170 mark. Terri Jo
Bonbright will be heading up a committee to provide ideas for membership
growth, the committee will meet on the 3ed Wed of the month and Terri Jo
will provide information back to the board with action plans, ideas and
request.
Topic: Fund Raising for Dance Camp 2010. It appears that the fund raising
committee is already hard at work. Items have been donated, raffles
underway. New ideas included Auction & Texas Hold-em event. Board has
agreed to support new ideas, need to understand how they work before moving
forward.
Open discussion for new business: Suggestion to provide a thank you to
Jamie Morgan for her work on dance camp. This was not intended as new
business; however the idea was reviewed and will provide a thank you card
with a picture presented to Jamie. Thank you Susan for the warm idea.
Topic: Jim Lalone has asked all board members provide (write down) no less
then 3 goals they would like to see Cascade Zydeco work towards in 2009
2010 year. The list will be reviewed and put to a vote on which goals the
board would like to achieve.
Meeting called to an end at 7:10
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