February 2014 Board Meeting Minutes – Washington Recreational River Runners

Washington Recreational River Runners
Board Meeting February 12, 2014

Call to order @ 7:02
1. Present on phone: David, Nancy, Brenan, Jason, Mary, Nate, Adam, Jim (late)
Review minutes and approve
Review agenda
Officer’s reports
Chairperson/President – David Elliott
Membership 151 (last month 150)
VP River Ops – Brenan Filippini
Tilton this weekend
Ops just providing fire wood, potluck breakfast on Sunday
1. Green River
  1. waiting for dump vouchers
  2. camping officially donated
  3. Flag areas for concentration
2. Pre-clean on 4/26 at 9:00 Shangri-La
  1. Brenan write article for waterlog
  2. Bring gloves and yard tools
  3. Some run the river beforehand, usually take out at Shangri-La instead of continuing down to the park.
3. Skagit
  1. Camping all set, $225 needs to be reimbursed to Brenan (was too excited to go get the WRRR card)
4. Talking about work party for cable drop, going to get back to us with dates that don’t conflict with ours (sometime in spring)
VP Business – Jason Cohen
1. nothing
VP Finance – Nancy Douty
1. $5693.32 – $41.50 for pizza
2. Locked out of PayPal – password no long works
3. David to deal with getting that reset
4. Picking up mail every two weeks.
5. Got the checking and credit card accounts combined
6. David setup the credit card to fully pay
7. David to take care of paying it online
Standing Committee Reports
1. Waterlog – Brian Vogt
  1. Not present
2. River Watch – Chris Herman
  1. Not present
3. Safety and Education – Brenan Filippini
  1. Jason to take over
  2. Do the normal 1 day club sponsored and maybe a couple 2 days not sponsored, but get discount.
  3. Mary has a CPR trainer that can do the class for free
    1. need to pay for the cards
    2. Does the club cover the costs? Yes
    3. 15-20 per class
    4. Have the dummies, need some space. Would take about 4 hours.
    5. Randy’s hanger in Auburn is an option, as well as Jason’s garage in Woodinville
    6. Need to know how the space is setup
    7. Start with a leader article with a deadline for interest (get in by 20th for February Waterlog), work with Adam to communicate (goal to do it in the next couple months)
    8. Non-members okay if they pay the fee – no, charge them $30 for a membership
  4. $1600 is the budget
  5. No longer calling it swift water training or whiter water rescue technician (not to be confused with guide certification), instead whitewater safety training
4. Communications – Adam Schierenbeck
  1. Flip practice changed from 4/20 to 4/27 because of Easter
  2. Any concerns of water level this weekend on the Tilton? – yes, looking at alternates but the meet time and location will not change.
  3. Do we communicate all locations (website, website forums, waterlog, Facebook, and Yahoo groups)? – yes, need to keep them all in sync
  4. Brenan: The poker run date is not on the website, David will update it now that we have the campsite.
5. Membership – Mary Koncikowski
  1. Nothing new, just cooking a new member
6. Programs/Volunteers – Jim Johnson
  1. Jim: Is David the contact for the flip practice? Adam will change it to Jim, just get the info from contact info.
7. WRRR Wear – Nate Dickison
  1. Need to pick up the gear from Nancy still.
  2. Nancy will just bring it to the next event (Cleanup)
  3. Costco stuff – no profit donation / sponsorship
  4. Hydro-flasks
    1. Send info to Nate
  5. Stickers – budget for about $100
    1. Get it for flip practice or at latest green river cleanup
  6. Need to do inventory on the half synthetic shirts, but haven’t really been to any events yet – just the gear swap
Old Business
1. January membership roundup
  1. Everything went well, good turnout.
2. Tilton Trek status
  1. Thing still up in the air, the river fluctuates quite a bit. Upper is the backup, but meeting time (10am) and location doesn’t change
  2. David not planning to be there
3. Green River Cleanup status
  1. See in river ops
4. 2014 Budget
  1. Did we approve the budget? We went over it and there were no proposed changes.
  2. David motioned to approve, Nancy second. Approved.
5. By-law changes
  1. Items include member conduct rules, webmaster position, paper requirements
  2. Draft proposal by end of February
  3. Introduce in April
  4. Vote at Wenatchee Rendezvous
New Business
1. Discuss budget – approve if possible (already done)
2. Flip Practice discussion
  1. Do a BBQ like last year
  2. Need to double check that it is reserved
3. Wenatchee Rendezvous discussion
  1. Anything we need to start discussing. The camping is reserved for the last day in May.
  2. Brenan: trying to streamline the events and setting up a river chair for each event. Still need volunteers for Wenatchee and Skagit (help out with communications) – Nate will help out with the Rendezvous
4. Status for getting donations of prizes
  1. Nate working on it
  2. Mary will ask to see if she can get anything from her work.
  3. Try to get something from first aid. Offered Adventure Medical Kits to do an article but they never did, can offer again.
  4. Nancy has stitch kits from Mary (1 or 2 in the bag)
  5. Any prize requests?
  6. Nancy typed up a list from the gear swap and emailed it to the board, David to reply to the mail so it bumps up to the top.
  7. Costco has the waterproof Bluetooth speakers for $80 that will probably go first. Also have had the pelican case type for $30.
5. Status of safety class planning
  1. Nothing new (see above)
Waterlog articles needed by 2/20
1. Pre-clean
2. CPR
Announcements and good of the order
1. Brenan: how is the phone in working – so far so good except for those that are late (Jim can’t find the agenda)
2. David will send out the minutes
3. April will be the next physical meeting, where do we want to have it?
4. Concerns about doing the phone call in the Renton Roundtable, Jim to try and get the room at Bogart’s for 4/9/2013
5. David is putting an article together about Ecuador with pictures
Adjourn @ 7:59