Saturday, December 17, 2011

USLRA Annual Membership Meeting Minutes

USLRA Annual Membership meeting
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Hudson YMCA


Members in attendance:
Olivia Judd
Jamie Fischer
Jenny Atkinson
Karl Bushhaus
Diethert
Davenport
serpico

Ranking Committee report

11,403.47 balance in checkbook
purchased pizza
charitable fund update: non profit, lending out logs to programs.
after 6 months, they can begin to pay back the log cost

rules committee: boom starts looking to be changed.
proposed ranking changes to be submitted via email by Jon Berard

grant money distribution. may get next year 50% charitable fund and 50% distribute to tournaments (Stihl money)
option to have tourney directors apply for grants.

current board: 3 or 4 spots need to be filled. email nominations.
Shana, Doug, Maggie, Karl
laura, scott, Olivia, Marcel

Survey

volunteer needs for 2012: grant/sponsorship writing
super series tracking
membership card making and mailing
blog post writing
facebook page
training videos
charitable fund fundraising
program followup and communication
rental equipment storage and maintenance
Jenny offered to store equipment at Grand Marais
brackets (accurate)
printyourbrackets.com ??

3 top areas in survey:
focus of board
new porgram dev
starting new contests
athlete recruitment

Jamie has kits and info for new programs
5 state area
possible partnership with USLRA association
Jamie interested in sharing so he can work with USLRA

Olivia will post on Facebook a question about finding logrolling shoes.

Karl noticed a drop in attendance of Junior rollers.
entry fees going up. There should be a cap on family entry fees.

Meeting adjourned at 5:45pm

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