Board of Directors’ meeting minutes
Directors
present: Mike Branch, Frank Wolf, Tom
Coyne, Richard Hodges and Sherry Gordon
There was
not a quorum present; therefore, we discussed the following:
Athlete
John Kusku had inquired through Gordon the possibility of obtaining some
financial assistance through the MBAA for his participation in the 2008 Boston
Marathon. Total cost of the trip, plus
registration, is $595.
Hodges
reported we currently have $29,743 in our treasury. This does need to last us until we get the
Gilmore and Upjohn grants in the fall—assuming we will get these grants. Costs through the fall will include the
already approved
Motion was
made by Wolf to fund the Sports Ed Camp funding request for $16,629. All five Board members present approved this
request. Paul and Sue Ponchillia are
having Scott and Leanne Ford be the directors of the
junior and senior camps respectively this year.
This is part of the transitioning activities which the Ponchillias talked with the MBAA Board about a couple of
years ago.
Coyne made
a motion to fund John Kusku $300 for his trip to
Hodges
brought up the approximately $400 per year of reoccurring administrative costs
to the MBAA Board. The idea behind this
proposal is that for the following costs, when these reoccurring costs are due,
they would not need to be approved by the MBAA Board, unless there is a change
in the amount of these costs:
All Board
members present approved this motion.
Gordon will
send out three different e-mail messages which will ask our Board members, who
are not present, to vote on these three funding requests. It was noted that Bill Welke,
through Tom Coyne, had expressed his approval for all three of these motions,
by proxy vote. Therefore, in order to
have a majority of Board members approve these funding requests, we need just
one additional vote of approval for each.
(Secretary’s note—both John Hulsebus and Tyler Merren voted “for” the
three funding requests. Therefore, all
three motions passed).
It was
discussed that once we pay money for the costs mentioned earlier, we would have
approximately $8000 remaining in our treasury.
This amount does not include what we would pay toward the bowling and
goalball national tournaments.
Gordon
reported that at the
Coyne asked
when a decision would be made for the teams going to the 2008 Beijing
Paralympics. Gordon indicated that
sometime between the
Gordon
reported the tandem bikes will be taken out to Breakaway Bikes next week, in
order to be maintained. Although the
bikes are now 8 years old, they are not at all “nickel and diming”
us. Gordon was requested to speak with
Paul Wells, owner of Breakaway Bikes, in order to get his recommendation on how
these bikes are looking and if we should consider replacing any of them at this
time.
Meeting was
adjourned.
Our next
meeting will be held at the Michigan Commission for the
Respectfully
submitted,
Sherry
Gordon, MBAA Secretary