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Meeting Minutes
Date: Tuesday, 11/08/2005
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Avila Beach Yacht Club

New Board Members
This evening Jeff officially resigned as President, and Hugh resigned as Vice President. Hugh noted Jeff’s accomplishments as President over the last 6 or 7 years, and presented Jeff with a picture in appreciation of all his efforts.

The club voted to install new board members:

• President: Mike Shandroff
  Mike says his priorities are 1) have fun; 2) safety; 3) be competitive.
• Vice President: Brian LaCabe

The following positions are retained from the past year:

• Treasurer: Tifnie LaCabe
• Secretary (non-board member): Dara Manker

Proposals
1. New Board Members
A proposal was made to make the following change to the by-laws: increase the number of board members from three (President, VP, Treasurer) to fourteen. The club members who attended the meeting voted to approve this proposal.
The New Board positions are:

• Past President: Jeff Blauer
• Women’s Coach: Jill Urqhart
• Men’s Coach: Greg Foster
• Youth Coach: Jeff Blauer
• Membership Coordinator: Laurel Dunning (Susie Bland/ Justin Crawford will assist)
• Equipment Coordinator: Scott Bixler
• Transportation Coordinator: Denny Thatcher
• Information Coordinator: Justin Crawford
• SCORA Director: Denise Shandroff
• SCORA Alternate Director: Joanne Richards
• Event Coordinator: Dave Van Mouwerik

2. By-law Modifications
A proposal was made that we have two meetings a year in which we can make changes to the by-laws, and that we require a quorum at those meetings to pass the changes. The club members present at the meeting voted to approve this proposal.
3. Canoe Covers
A proposal was made to buy covers for the canoes. The club members present at the meeting voted to approve this proposal.
4. Resurrection of the Pineapple Express
A proposal was made to make a bid for the 2007 State Champs to be hosted by our club and to be held here in Avila. The club members present at the meeting voted to approve this proposal.
5. Electronic Voting
The club decided not to allow electronic voting because an issue tends to change as we discuss them at meetings, and therefore the person who voted electronically would not know about these changes when the vote finally took place.

Holiday Party
Holiday Party is at Mike Nunno's house on the evening of Friday, December 9th at 6:30 p.m. (we discussed Saturday Dec. 10th at the meeting, but Mike found he had a prior commitment). He'll send out a flyer to club members with the details. Details will also be posted here once the flyer has been received.

Canoe Sold
The "noodle" canoe sold for $5K and will be picked up in about a week. Contact for the buyer will be Dara, who will send an e-mail to the club to help load the canoe. We’ll eventually buy an OC-6 with this money. We're waiting for SCORA members to vote on the requirement that Masters+ must race in Bradleys. A hand vote of club members at the meeting shows we support getting rid of this rule, and Denise will vote for us at the next SCORA meeting.

Miscellaneous

• We're about 2 weeks out from moving a canoe to Morro Bay. We may move another clipper if the need is there.
• Comments were made that at another meeting we need to discuss issues about not allowing people to paddle without signed waivers (old waivers expire in March) or who have not paid dues.
• Canoe site is County property. Jeff says to be conscientious about keeping the site clean.