Duplicate Bridge Association of Atlanta

BOARD OF DIRECTORS May 3^rd   MEETING MINUTES                                                               May3, 2006

President Jack Feagin called the meeting to order.  Present:  Jack Feagin, Susan Wolfe, Josie Mitchell, Bill Burks, Kevin Collins, Beatrice Kemp, Nicolas Hammond, Jan Word and Carolyn Eckert.  

Items headlined in blue need future discussion and follow up.

 

1. Minutes:  April , 2006 minutes were approved. 

 

2. Financial:   April report was submitted and approved.  A summary report on expenses and income for Wed night games was submitted by Bill but will be revised again to exclude tournament or unrelated exp or inc to the Wed night game.  Bill will submit next time.

 

A letter requesting a review of the financial records of the DBAA was signed y Jack and forwarded to Ed Foran. 

 

3. Special Games:  

 JUNE 7.......NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS
 JUNE 14.....STAC GAME    (SECTIONAL TOURNAMENT AT CLUB)

 JUNE 28.....NORTH AMERICAN PAIRS

Social Game & AARP Game: ACBL is showing an unprecedented level of interest and work in support of the AARP game.  District 7 gave $500 support of the AARP game. 

 

4. Old Business:

Phone Book:  Jan reported that work has begun on finding corrections/additions/deletions of names and phone numbers.  Jan asked the board to provide a cost limit on the production of the phone book and guidelines of who should be included.  Beatrice reported that names included in previous phone books were limited to players from the DBAA area and active players at the club.  Jan is collecting emails but they will not be included in the phone book. Jack would like to see an expansion of names included.

 

AtlantaJuniorBridge Funding Request: Jack reported that he has not yet contacted Olin about possible location of bidding boxes which may have been purchased by DBAA in the past.  Carolyn reported that AJB has been successful in receiving donations to purchase the required amount of bidding boxes for the summer camps and other bridge training programs.  Carolyn suggested that the DBAA may want to consider funding the purchase of T-shirts for the new students enrolled in the summer camps as this would provide a great source of advertising for AJB.  The original T-shirts were produced at a cost of $5.00 each which included a quality shirt and screening.  The cost of 100 new shirts would be $500. The board will consider this request.

 

By-Laws:  Susan reported thatthe final review of the draft by-laws will be May 17 @ 6:00 pm

 

5. New Business:

           DBAA game: Policy of DBAA: Motion was made and carried that the Director of the DBAA game will be a non-playing director.  The only times he can/should participate in playing the game is if 1) new person arrives from out of town without a partner; 2) someone gets sick and has to leave; 3) when there is a very unusual table movement that would result in unusual sit out pattern for the players.

 

           In order to increase attendance at the DBAA game the following suggestions were made: 1) call former players who are no longer playing 2) have a limited game also 3) Friendship game with randomly matched players 4) advertise Friendship game @ July tournament 5) promote and advertise special games

 

           YouthState Championship: Motion was made by Nicolas Hammond, 2^nd and passed to have a Youth State Championship Open Pairs Game for youngsters and teens on December 1, 2006 at the Atlanta Sectional at LaVista. The fee will be $2.00.

 

Meeting adjourned 7:30PM.  Nextmeeting:  Wednesday June 7, 2006 @ 6:15pm