May 2021 Board Meeting Minutes – Washington Recreational River Runners

Call to order: 7:09pm Nancy, Brenan, Repo, Tammie, Randy, Karie
Review minutes and approve: Approved
1. Check previous month’s action items: will cover in agenda
Review agenda
146 members (142 members last month, highest ever 167 in March 2020)
Standing Committee Reports
1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Brenan – need to meet and review scholarships.
2. River Watch – Rebecca Post:
  1. Wenatchee: Nancy contacted Mike Curtis. Unsure if Wenatchee River park going to happen.
  2. Nooksack putting in toilets. new Raft takeout will be 1 or 2 miles below rough take-out we have been using
3. Safety and Education – Rebecca Post: Paul Rodgers asking for members to write article. Repo to check if Jessica sent information. Waiting to schedule next year until we hear back from this year’s class on success of training.
4. Communications – Brenan Filippini:
  1. Brenan trying to keep things updated. Alot of information posted on the Green primarily by Brenan and Jay.
  2. Has been working to update the webpage and fix broken links and pages and single-source links instead of posting same thing multiple places.
5. Membership – Tamie Stonke: Children of members becoming members
6. Programs and Volunteers – Erik Smith
7. Mail pickup/Meeting reservations – Joe Koncikowski
8. WRRR Wear – Rebecca Post: Over $300 of WRRR Wear sold last weekend.
Events
1. Pre-clean roundup (4/25/2021): 217 volunteers. Everyone worked very hard and a lot of work was accomplished. Rebecca would like to reimburse gravel fairy who brought in load of gravel for group camp and donated by WRRR Member.
  1. Rebecca motions to reimburse gravel fairy, Nancy seconds: all in favor
2. Green River Cleanup roundup (5/1/2021): 37th annual (correcting previous miscount) Cleanup 700 or 800 volunteers, still tallying
  1. Filled trailer at Flaming Geyser.
  2. Volunteers found to take signups: Repo, Brenan, Mindy
  3. Alot of new boaters over the past couple of weeks
  4. Kayakers up and down river, great Nature Nut turn out, KP dumpsters filled by volunteers
  5. Next year will be on April 30, 2022
  6. Info posted on greenrivercleanup.org
  7. Brenan: please make sure info also published in WaterLog
3. Wenatchee Rendezvous status (6/5/2021):
  1. Brenan helping with prizes. Accepting donations, additional help finding, will reimburse, the more variety the better.
  2. Toilets will be dropped off Friday before Memorial Day weekend at Eagle Creek and put-in. There is already one at put-in and a second will be nice.
  3. Potluck will happen. Will make as sanitary as possible. Participants can participate as they feel comfortable.
4. White Salmon Retreat planning (7/17/2021): Camping reserved for Friday -Saturday (Thur and Sunday you may have to pay on your own). Sometimes she asks for help with paying for extra toilet.
5. Misc River Ops: Skagit – what day to pick and camping.
  1. Randy: have lower A & B sites for Thur-Fri-Sat 12th-14th. Will see if it is still available for Sunday
  2. Website update, making sure it isn’t cross posted
Old Business
1. Looking at next year discussing positions
  1. Pres: Repo
  2. Treasurer: Brenan
  3. River Ops: Randy w/Paul as Co
  4. VP Business: Karie
  5. Mailbox: Karie
  6. Reservations: Nancy
  7. Membership programs/volunteers: Eric
  8. River watch: Tammie
  9. Committees: DEI will self select and determine if anything needs to change
New Business
1. VP Finance – provide printed copies of Event report (Benefactors/Sustaining/Members) to raffle ticket sellers: Nancy– ask David to print
2. Review Waterlog ads and sponsors
  1. Tammy – request to submit article on JohnDay
3. Sponsors
  1. Repo – Need to review current sponsors and if they have paid recently
Waterlog articles needed by 5/20
1. NOTE: Make sure Brian verifies receipt of articles
2. VP River Ops – Sauk Overnighter full article
3. VP River Ops – White Salmon full article
4. VP River Ops – Poker Run teaser: May be too early to run
Announcements and good of the order
Adjourn