Board Meeting Minutes – November 7, 2007
Attendance:
- Melissa Rosenberg
- Nancy Mariani
- Elizabeth Stark
- Dave Thompson
- Susan Serota
- Marie Iribarren
- Lori Kenner
- Martine de la Torre
- Charlotte Schermerhorn
Meeting called to order 5:45pm
New Board Business
- Melissa gave treasury report. 501C3 is active and up to date. Melissa is checking with the accountant for year end reports.
- It was brought up that US Figure Skating receipts and back receipts need to be reconciled to show profit separately. There have been instances of checks issued but not returned. A motion was made to have a check request to be used to give to Melissa to issue checks. Melissa is designing a check request form.
- Susan gave membership report. Currently we have 134 full members, 9 learn to skate and 1 associate member. It has been determined that we will accept skaters as ISI members for the holiday show. The sanction will cover insurance for those skaters. Future shows will have application for participation and all skaters will be US Figure Skating Members to participate.
- Test Report
- Charlotte stated newest test was just completed. Next test session December 12th.
- Halloween Party
- Huge success. Accolades to Marie for a job well done- the food was enjoyed by all. The kids had a lot of fun and over 100 tickets were sold.
- Coaches’ report given by Martine. Coaches requested mats and equipment. This was referred to rink management.
- Holiday Show
- Posters have all been distributed. More posters will be ordered and new ones will include this is a US Figure Skating Sanctioned Event. Press releases have been sent out to many media outlets locally.
- Bank Atlantic Center is donating the large, beautiful curtains from the Frank Sinatra Theatre. Our only cost will be the setup/teardown labor.
- December 9 will be dress rehearsal from 2pm-6pm. Kids will be dropped off at 1:15pm and picked up at 6:15pm. No parents allowed; only coaches and skaters.
- Board members have volunteered their time to help supervisor the rehearsal.
- Directions and information will be distributed to parents soon by Nancy. Coaches and parents will bring snacks as agreed upon by coaches in coordination with Nancy.
- Photographer will be at the dress rehearsal. There will be a videographer the night of the show. Charlie will come and do the music for the rehearsal and show for a small fee.
- Todd will perform Fiddler on the Roof. Show order was reviewed and the show will be 92 minutes long.
- Kids must be dropped off at rear doors at 5:30pm and doors will open up front at 6:00pm.
- US Figure Skating Memorial Fund donation form will appear in the program.
- The Bank Atlantic Center will try to build the ice to 1¾ inches. Kids should be able to do double toe picks and Todd should be able to do triples.
- There will be a feature news story about the Junior Nationals skaters and our holiday show in Our Town News.
- Questions were asked about where club money actually goes.
- Money raised from our club may be invested in some short term account.
- Gifts were given to all the regional skaters. Additionally the Junior National Skaters will each be given $400.00. Additionally they were given a coupon book each donated by incredible ICE.
- Freestyle session will now have 30 skaters- maximum. This is a new policy from incredible ICE. No swapping skaters under any circumstance. This is still a trial period as agreed upon between coaches and management.
- Next board meeting November 28 at 5:45pm just to discuss the holiday show.
- Following regular board meeting will be following the test session on December 12. (Meeting was subsequently canceled).