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September 2018 Board Meeting Minutes

  • Call to order 7:02pm Sept 12, 2018. Present:  David, Karie, Nancy, Brenan, Steve, JoeK.     General members from the Tieton:  Erik Smith, Mark McGraw, Laurie, Randy  ( Rebecca is gone this month.   Next years president elects will run the meeting!  (Joe and Nancy))
  • Review minutes and approve, approved.
    1.  LAST MONTH’S ACTION ITEMS:
      1. Provide list of nominee’s.   See below for more details
        1.  President:   Joe or Nancy
        2.  River ops:    Joe or Nancy  (Brenan to help)
        3.  Business:    David
        4.  Finance:     Rebecca
        5. board #1      Jared
        6. Board #2     Steve
        7. Board #3     Karie
        8. Board #4     Lance Blanchard ?
        9. Board #5     Brenan
      2. Randy Erling is helping with rule of 85 info.  Randy gave David the old Rosters that predated our records!   Awesome.  David will work on updating the files.
      3. Poker run accounting (Below)
  • Review agenda
  • 138 members (138 members last month)
  • Standing Committee Reports
    1. River Watch – Rebecca Post.   Brenan mentions DNR plan for the Nooksack takeout.  Last comment period has occured.  This should be a go, and will provide a much needed access for the NF Nooksack.  This has been in the works 10+ years.   Brenan will email Nancy when he sends facebook messages.    David mentions Mountains to Sound Greenway. (A group of people that volunteer)   It’s a group of people  WRRR helped with this lower MM snoqualmie takeout approx 10-12 years ago.   There is upcoming volunteer work to do.   David sent to membership.   This event takes place  9-22-18.   Come on out if you can!  Nancy requests to put it on the WRRR.ORG site.  David will post it now.
    2. Safety and Education – Rebecca Post.  Not present, Nothing to report.   Likely skip a class next year but do other things.  Usually we do one every few years due to interest and budget.  Prob do safety olympics at the poker run again this year and some im promptu things at flip practice.   Rowers progression is a great place to practice skills and learn things in a safe environment.
    3. Communications – David Elliott.  Nothing to report
    4. Membership – David Elliott.   See above
    5. Mail pickup/Meeting reservations – Nancy Douty.   Nancy reports there are 4 memberships or new members.  Nancy will send to David.    Next board meeting is Big E 10-10-18
    6. WRRR Wear – Rebecca Post.   N/A
  • Events
    1. Poker Run roundup (2018-08-11).   $760 for poker hands plus membership, camping ($40) and shirts.  Nancy won a prize.   Brenan notes Sunday camping we got in trouble with Rangers.   Lighter turn out than last year, but this is more of the average.    Last year was a record.
    2. Tieton Rally status (2018-09-15)  Steve and co, is on site reporting from Tieton, It’s great having folks live on location!!!         Nancy got some air fresheners for port o potties!!!    WRRR board will gather to remark toilet drops.   Possibly move them to another location.    Steve mentions it’s brrr cold on the Tieton
    3. Rogue status (2018-09-26).   19 people day 0 and 13 people day 1.   All is accounted for and we are excited!    After day 1 there will be 32 of us.
    4. Gear Swap status (2018-10-13).   Brenan has Glue.   Karie will make sure the Barn is cleared out.  Country BBQ is the food theme.   David requests no martian food.  Whoops event is not posted.  David will add to wrrr.org and forum.   The club buys pizza at lunch(12pm)  For the 5pm potluck, Karie will provide ribs and we are asking the members to bring potluck items and salads, deserts, etc.   David is flip flopping on martian food now.   Is the earth flat?   If it was flat would rivers run or flow?
    5. Sauktoberfest status (2018-10-20).  Event is run by particpants.  Anything you need ask Brenan.  Usually the sauk is a good medium – low flow.    Pending flows we plan for the Sauk.  Camping is avail at B/Ks house.    Steve has a room.    RV parking available.   David will park the camper and can plug in.   Other RV spots are available.    FORGOT TO MENTION!  Our chicken that has been missing all summer came back today!   Remind us to lock her up for the puppies 🙂
    6. Misc River Ops.  River ops is on vacation after the Tieton Ralley.   The committee is amazing.
  • Old Business
    1. Nominating committee status (ballot due by October 1).   Brenan is the chair.  See list of names above.   A Tieton arm wrestling competition will figure out who does River ops and President.
  • New Business
    1. Determine location of October board meeting (currently scheduled for Big E)   10-10-18  Nancy will reserve 6-9pm.  Approved
  • Waterlog articles needed by 9/20
    1. NOTE: Make sure Brian verifies receipt of articles
    2. None, Brenan turned in Sauktoberfest.  David turning in gear swap.
  • Announcements and good of the order
    • Brenan asks if we have membership forms.  Joe printed 30 membership forms.  Important to fill out the forms as board members collect membership money.
    • Should we make Nancy a Facebook page?   Not at this time. 🙂  Tag Erik so Nancy can see things.
    • List of dates for 2019.   We will post it on next months agenda.   Basically all the events have “rules’ and we alter as camping is available.
    • David got the gear swap article online.
    • David put the MM snoq article online.
  • Adjourn   7:43pm.   See you at the Tieton Rally