- Call to order: 7:11pm Attendees
- Officers: Nancy, Karie
- Directors: Paul, Erik, Lance
- Technology: David Elliot
- Review minutes and approve
- All Approved
- Review agenda
- 163 members (149 members last month)
- Pretty sure this is the highest number of members ever
- Standing Committee Reports
- River Watch – Rebecca Post
- Safety and Education – Rebecca Post
- Communications – David Elliott
- Nothing specific. Some stuff added to website, articles, rower’s progression, master article w/link to calendar page for Rower’s progression. Collecting articles to make it easier to publish events and articles to make it less of a scramble to get Brian info
- Membership – Steve Plut
- Mail pickup/Meeting reservations – Joe Koncikowski
- Programs and volunteers – Brenan Filippini
- WRRR Wear – Rebecca Post
- Events
- Tilton Trek status (2/15/2020)
- This Sat. Brian has given thumbs up and says its runnable
- 9:30am meetup at takeout
- Niqually Cleanup status (4/4/2020)
- Rowers progression that day as well
- Flip Practice planning (4/26/2020)
- Jim Johnson in charge
- Green River Cleanup planning (5/2/2020)
- Camping – don’t have group camp. Have 16 or 19 spots in regular campground. Some have their own spots
- Possible gate at headworks
- plan to use gated put-in. Bring ID and insurance.
- Can currently get through posts. Most people launch from main road, so gate isn’t a factor.
- Trash pickup party in the next couple weeks at headworks road by kayakers. Date will be announced soon and shared.
- Rower’s Progression ops
- Should we charge a small fee for non-members? (Consider Mark Trivett’s article).
- We probably shouldn’t charge guests for liability reasons
- Some other incentive for members, like the WKC 7 Rivers Challenge stickers?
- Good idea
- Incentive for people on fence to become member. Stickers for members.
- Need artwork & quantity to get estimate
- Recommend design over photograph
- Lance to take action item
- Should we charge a small fee for non-members? (Consider Mark Trivett’s article).
- Additional run for White Salmon
- Kat & Aaron want to have a trip to Husum at 10am
- 2nd trip at 12pm
- Kat & Aaron want to have a trip to Husum at 10am
- Misc River Ops
- Tilton Trek status (2/15/2020)
- Old Business
- Business card
- Picture or texture instead of blue background?
- QR code on back is a little more expensive for 2 sided
- Water resistant material
- Erik to send Lance info about his card company to compare pricing
- Lance to bring back a couple of different samples and some pricing for quantities
- Business card
- New Business
- Discuss budget – approve if possible
- Status for getting donations of prizes
- Updating members who are not Facebook users about changes to events
- Encourage people to visit the web site more often
- Improve email blast system
- Annoying but possible. David could investigate making system easier
- Text messages to inform people
- David could look into initiating from website.
- Short text linking to article
- Opt In/Out options
- Not many people read forums – should we stop using forum or remove it?
- If it isn’t kept up to date it becomes a security risk
- Things could be posted as articles instead of in Forum
- Free Conference Call not free for some carriers
- T-Mobile $.13 min
- ATT $1 min
- Against law, but some companies charging anyway
- Look into WebEx, Zoom, for other options
- Waterlog articles needed by 2/20
- Question: Should the articles now go to Communications to centralize this?
- NOTE: Make sure Brian verifies receipt of articles
- VP River Ops – Green River Cleanup teaser. Brennan & Joe sent to Brian 1/27/2020
- Brian posted pics from Cedar trip but not article
- Can Mark write article on Green river New Years trip?
- Brennan to write Article for June 6 Lochsa trip. Weekend after Rendezvous
- Announcements and good of the order
- Brenan is happy. We had two separate meetings going at the same time due to call-in code confusion
- Forum was good because we didn’t have a central space to send stuff out. It was a great place to send info
- In facebook it gets buried.
- Now that we are sending through Communications, articles and such can all go through Comms.
- No longer need forum
- Brenan is happy. We had two separate meetings going at the same time due to call-in code confusion
- Adjourn
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