BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING MINUTES
January 3, 2007

Duplicate Bridge Association of Atlanta

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jan      MEETING MINUTES                                                      January 3, 2007

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

Items headlined in blue need future discussion and follow up.

 

1. Minutes:  November 1  2006 minutes were approved. 

 

2. Financial:   Sept and October Reports submitted.  Will be discussed for approval at the Feb meeting.

 

3. Special Games:  

Feb 14, 2007. Special Game to Promote growth of Wednesday night game.

 

4. Old Business:

          

           Telephone book: Jan Word is nearing the end of preparations for the telephone director.  Three thousand copies of the director should be made.  Nicolas suggested that it would reduce costs for printing if the directory were placed in a secure site on the web which might include a password for members to access. Several members voiced ‘privacy’ issues with publication of names and phone numbers on a web site.  Jan reported that the cost of the 28-30 page draft will cost approximately $2800.  Jan will determine the layout of one or two column’s to a page and submit the total number of copies to the printers, before a final cost estimate.  Once Jack received the final costs, he will email the board membership for approval.

 

           By Laws: the DRAFT of the new by-laws is completed.  Three final changes were submitted by Marty Nathan to the board for discussion.  A lengthy discussion ensued on the final changes which now completed the DRAFT version of the new DBAA By-Laws.  Board members unanimously approved the DRAFT of the new By-Laws.

 

           The DRAFT will be presented to the membership at large for review.  Each club will receive copies of the current DRAFT of the by-laws, old by-laws, by-laws with annotated changes, list of changes.  Membership will vote on approving or disapproving the DRAFT of the new by-laws at the Annual Meeting held March 3, 2007 at the Roswell Sectional

 

5. New Business:

 

           Election of Officer and Area Representatives: Carolyn reported that according to the by-laws, the following 2 year terms of all current officers and area reps are opened to election in March 2007.  By February 3, 2007, the Election Committee will prepare a slate of names of candidates for each of the four officer positions and five area rep positions.  Candidates for the positions will be from the membership of the DBAA area to include Clayton, Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, and Gwinnett counties.

 

           The Board determined that staggered terms for the Reps should be 2 years and 1 year.  Since there are 5 positions for area reps, the three reps receiving the most votes will serve for a term of two years and the other two reps will serve for a term of one year each pending approval of the by-laws.

 

           Election Committee: Jack suggested five names to complete the roster for the Election Committee.  Nicolas reminded Jack that the committee can only have three members.  The following names were offered by Jack: Perry Alterman, Committee chairperson, Bob Duval and Joan Sheldon.

 

           Unit Meeting: the next meeting will be held in Macon, on Saturday, January 20, 2007

 

          

 

Meeting adjourned 7:30PM.  Next meeting:  Wednesday February 7, 2007 @ 6:15pm

Respectfully submitted,

Carolyn Eckert

Carolyn Eckert, Secretary

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