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Duplicate Bridge Association of Board of Directors – Meeting Minutes February 25, 2009 Present: Jack Feagin, Judy Fendrick, Barbara Heller, Dick Browne, Kevin Collins,
Bob Heller, Marty Nathan and Dan Papineau Absent: Allison Milhem, Ralph Folkerts, Susan Wolfe and Richard Holland The meeting was called to order at 5:45 p.m. by President Jack Feagin. Prior Minutes MOTION: Marty moved to approve the January 21 meeting minutes. Motion approved. Treasurer’s Report MOTION: Judy moved to approve the Treasurer’s Report sent by Allison on e-mail. Motion approved. DBAA Sponsored Bridge Classes The board discussed plans for future classes and how to get players interested
in playing duplicate. Marty and Mary Jo will hold an end-of-session game at the The Easy Bridge is a good option to consider for new players to transition
into duplicate faster. Priscilla teaches this course. In addition, Marty recommends Karen Walker’s book for teaching new players. We want to provide free plays to all new players taking lessons who have
never played duplicate. The same free play format that Dick used for the River Club students will
be used. ACTION ITEM: Jack will talk to Priscilla to get her thoughts on providing the ACTION ITEM: Marty will inform the teachers of the free play availability and provide
the free plays to the teachers. The teachers can write the players’ names on the free plays and turn in
to DBAA for reimbursement. Sources for New Bridge Players The board discussed possibilities for attracting new bridge players into
duplicate. Sources for new players could be country clubs and newcomer clubs. Another possible idea discussed was to hold a social bridge game at the
Regional. In the past, this was a very successful game. DBAA Directory Jack confirmed with Jan Word that she will put the directory data together
in final form to give to the vendor. Jan asked if we want a smaller book. No decision was made on this. We will have the directory available during the tournament in the front
lobby for players to make updates. Bidding Boxes The board is considering the purchase of bidding boxes for future classes. If we can get a deal on purchasing in bulk, Barbara would like to participate
in this for her bridge classes at school. Sectional Tournament – December 9-13, 2009 The contract offer from the Holiday Inn near I-285 at Goodwill Committee Nominations Unit 114 will be making a decision tomorrow on nominations for the District
7 Goodwill Committee. Nominees must be a Unit 114 member. Nominations are still being accepted and may be given to Barbara. DBAA Yahoo Group Code Barbara volunteered to be the group code administrator and will contact
Nicolas Hammond for further information. Election Process There is apparently a problem with the absentee ballot process. People have complained that the ballots are not readily available. Some players do not know how to obtain the ballots through e-mail. The Atlanta Duplicate Bridge Club manager asked for absentee ballots but
did not receive them, while the Alpharetta Club had ballots available. One option proposed was to allow DBAA to run all future elections of DBAA
officers and Unit 114 representatives. A suggestion was made that the board should prepare and submit a concise
description of how DBAA would run future elections. Meeting Closure Jack closed the meeting by thanking all board members for their volunteer
work in support of the DBAA. Meeting adjourned at 7:15 p.m. Next meeting: TBD. Respectfully submitted, Judy Fendrick Judy Fendrick, DBAA Secretary |