Duplicate Bridge Association of Atlanta

Board of Directors – Meeting Minutes

October 3, 2007

 

 

Present:  Jack Feagin, Susan Wolfe, Judy Fendrick, Kevin Collins, Nicolas Hammond, Richard Holland, Donna Holland and Richard Browne

 

President Jack Feagin called the meeting to order. 

 

Items highlighted in blue require future discussion and/or follow-up action.

 

1.  Minutes:  The Board members reviewed and approved the minutes from the September 5 meeting.

 

2.  Financial: 

 

Judy presented a summary report of the Wednesday Night DBAA game income and expenses for 2007.  The report summarized the spreadsheets prepared by Miles and ACBL fees from Jonathan’s reports.  The average loss per game is $13.  Judy will continue to maintain this summary report in order to track the impact of the recent change in entry fees to charge for special games.  Miles will send his spreadsheet to Judy each month.

 

Judy also presented a summary report of the 2006 DBAA Treasurer’s Reports.  The DBAA’s expenses exceeded net deposits by $4,344 in 2006 due to losses from the Sectional tournaments and the DBAA Wednesday night game. 

 

3.  Old Business: 

 

Atlanta Junior Bridge (AJB) – The AJB funding request is $6,000.  Patty Collins previously provided detailed summaries of current income and expenses, growth of AJB, and the short and long-term plans for the organization.  The DBAA board believes the AJB is doing a tremendous job of promoting bridge and is willing to support this endeavor this year.  Richard Holland moved to approve the $6,000 funding request for AJB.  Motion approved.  Nicolas and Kevin abstained from voting.

 

4.  New Business:

 

Wednesday Night Free Plays – The board confirmed with Miles that the free plays redeemed on Wednesday night include lesson free plays.  In addition, Jonathan accepts the DBAA free plays and requests reimbursement.  The DBAA free plays should only be redeemed at the Wednesday night games, and Jonathan was advised of this.  A motion was made to change the Wednesday night game free plays to give free plays for overall winners for Flights A, B and C instead of the N/S and E/W pairs for Flights A, B and C.  Motion approved.

 

New Finance Committee – Jack requested that a new Finance Committee be formed as a sub-group within DBAA to review the DBAA’s financial status and prepare a long-term budget.  The committee will be Richard Browne, Donna and Judy.

 

Meeting adjourned at 7:30 pm. 

 

Next meeting:  Wednesday, November 7, 2007 @ 6:15 pm

 

Respectfully submitted,