Cincinnati Bridge Association:     Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes of the Regular Meeting of December 7, 2009

 

Board President Potter Orr called the meeting to order at 6:10 p.m.

Members present: John Burpee, Debbie Cummings, Patti English, Gayle Keaney, Everitt Kitchen, Adrienne Netherwood, Potter Orr, Mike Purcell, Chris Schwartz, AJ Stephani, and John Stoppiello. Members Absent: Betty Hurst, Barb Levinson and Jean Sturtevant. Guests: Incoming Board Member Patrick Hoffman and incoming Treasurer, Anirudh  Pandit.

 

The November minutes were approved as corrected.

 

Chris Schwartz reported that 106 tickets have been sold for the Holiday Party.

 

President Orr and the board thanked departing board members (Patti English, Betty Hurst, and Adrienne Netherwood) for their service, and encouraged them to attend whenever they get bored or lonely. 

 

The board also gave thanks for an abbreviated report from the diligent and hard working education committee.

 

Gayle Keaney reported on her proactive efforts to retrieve past due books for the library

 

Potter Orr provided board members a bound booklet containing the Policies and Procedures, plus Job Descriptions that have been generated in 2009, many at the urging of VP John Burpee.

 

The board passed a motion to provide Tanya Kirkland our cleaning service specialist an increase of $100 in the level of bonus provided to her in December 2008.  The bonus level was $400 in 2008.

 

The board passed a motion made by John Burpee to continue our lease for rental of the UAW Hall for 2010.

 

The board passed a motion to submit a bid to the District for our Unit to conduct the NAPs in 2010 with fees we will charge to the District quoted about 5% higher than those for 2009.  Adjustments to the fees are to be made as deemed justified by the Treasurer and Sectional Chairperson.   There was one dissenting vote to the motion.

 

Adrienne Netherwood reported that our contract with the cleaning service, Coverall, renewed automatically in October.  Potter Orr will follow-up to evaluate changes the board may want to make in the contract.

 

A.J. Stephanie discussed the Contract/Agreement he has written for use between the CBA board and Club Game Managers.  The board agreed to distribute it to the Club Game Managers and Directors requesting their comments.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 7:30 p.m.

 

 

Everitt Kitchen, Recording Secretary

 


 

Cincinnati Bridge Association:     Board of Directors Meeting

Minutes of the Organizational Meeting of December 7, 2009

 

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Members present: John Burpee, Debbie Cummings, Patrick Hoffman Gayle Keaney, Everitt Kitchen, Potter Orr, Mike Purcell, Chris Schwartz, AJ Stephani, and John Stoppiello. Members Absent: Barb Levinson and Jean Sturtevant. Guests: Patti English, Adrienne Netherwood and Anirudh Pandit.

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:31

 

The following officers were elected to serve for 2010.

 

President: Potter Orr

Vice President: A.J. Stephani

Recording Secretary:  Everitt Kitchen

Tresasurer: Anirudh Pandit

 

The board requested that Potter Orr reappoint Sandy Orr as Unit Secretary.

 

Potter asked that board members inform him of their preferences for committee assignments.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 7:41 p.m. 

 

 

Everitt Kitchen, Recording Secretary