April 2014 Board Meeting Minutes – Washington Recreational River Runners

Washington Recreational River Runners
Board Meeting April 9, 2014

Call to order @ 7:05
1. Board/Directors Present – David, Marry, Nancy, Brennan, Jim, Adam, Jason (phone), Nate (phone)
2. Members – Stephanie, Lyles
Review minutes and approve
Review agenda
Officer’s reports
1. Chairperson/President – David Elliott
  1. Membership 147 (last month 152)
2. VP River Ops – Brenan Filippini
3. VP Business – Jason Cohen
4. VP Finance – Nancy Douty
  1. Balance: $6195.40
Standing Committee Reports
1. Waterlog – Brian Vogt
  1. Nothing (not present)
2. River Watch – Chris Herman
  1. Nothing (not present)
3. Safety and Education – Jason Cohen
  1. See below
4. Communications – Adam Schierenbeck
  1. Web site forums not really used, Yahoo site is going down hill (lots of ads), and Facebook is getting used more.
  2. Add information about the Cispus the weekend after the cleanup (not official WRRR event)
5. Membership – Mary Koncikowski
  1. David and Mary to do membership email
6. Programs/Volunteers – Jim Johnson
  1. Nothing new
7. WRRR Wear – Nate Dickison
  1. Haven’t heard anything since last talking with Hydro-flask. Said the price was going to increase and we probably missed the deadline.
Old Business
1. Flip Practice status
  1. All good to go, just need funds for food.
2. Green River Cleanup status
  1. Doing fine until Shangri-La backed out. Have Kanaskat-Palmer as backup.
  2. Reached out to a lot of clubs and people.
  3. Throw bag thing at paradise or flaming geyser?
  4. Maps are printed up to help reduce the confusion of the past.
  5. Brennan to run early and try to setup rigging in hard to stop places
  6. Stash WRRR bucks to encourage cleanup (not all found last year)
3. Wenatchee Rendezvous status
  1. Agenda for general membership meeting
  2. No changes to bylaws (wait till Poker Run), just introduce officers
  3. Try to get a better time so we know when the pot luck and raffle will be at.
  4. Haven’t talked to mark about the piñata.
  5. Article about policing dogs off leash
4. Safety class status
  1. Nothing much new, reached out to Pixie to get info from last year.
  2. Try not to schedule for 5/17-5/18 weekend
5. CPR class status
  1. Not a lot of people confirmed at this point, the idea was about 20 people. Deadline CPR class in one week (next Wednesday)
6. By-law changes – David fallen behind – new goal is Poker Run vote
7. Stickers
  1. Will do same order as last time, decide on price at cleanup
8. Hydro-flasks
  1. Suggest we do the order if we can get the original price.
  2. David, Brennan, and Nate to hash out details and place order Friday.
New Business
1. Oso mudslide donation
  1. Donation for our club member who lost his wife, grand daughter, and house and has been working out there as fire fighter.
  2. Motion to approve $500 to donate to fund. Approved.
2. White Salmon planning
  1. We have the camp ground, but last year we got hosed with the fire pit with the other RV group.
  2. Still do the noon meet for put in
3. Poker Run discussion
  1. Camp ground is reserved for Thursday night on.
  2. Jason to do the forms
Waterlog articles needed by 4/20
1. NOTE: Please do not ignore the date and requests for articles – if you don’t get them in in time, the President has to write them, not the newsletter editor
2. VP River Ops
  1. Wenatchee Rendezvous full article
  2. White Salmon teaser
Announcements and good of the order
1. Questions about the Shangri-La cleanup. Last year they were going to give away our weekend, even though we had it because we were not paying and they prefer paying customer. But the other party just moved to another weekend. This year Jason (the caretaker) just double booked while he was out on vacation. Still doing the pre-clean, just smaller group that is boating down.
2. Do we move it next year to April to avoid conflicts? Probably don’t need to.
3. Renew American White Water membership ($75 plus $100 extra) is budgeted and approved.
4. Old guide books donated for Poker Run last year.
5. Water Log – still doing paper for a few old members which costs about $25-$30.
6. Nancy needs a little help with reconciliation of finances – David will help.
7. Jim – who is getting Hydro Flasks? About half will be spoken for, others will be sold. It went out on email, but we need to put Jim in the subject line.
Adjourn @ 7:47