MINUTES FOR LBA BOARD MEETING 2/6/09

President Jean Donoho called the meeting to order at 5:33 PM.  The meeting was held at the Highland Post, on Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY, in conjunction with the Sweater Sectional Tournament.

Officers/board members present:

Vangie Smith, Susan Cox, Rex Swauger, Frank Nelson, Ellen Schmidt, Betsy Blakeman, Hannah Davis, Jean Donoho, Diane Huguenard, Jo Ellen Amrine, Sandy Spears and Joe Dye.

Officers/board members absent:

Kit Overpeck, Ted Flach and Jane Wininger.

Attending non-voting:

Paul Coulter and Scott Cox.

The minutes of the two previous meetings were read and accepted with one correction to the Annual Meeting minutes and one addition to the Barren River minutes.

President’s Report:

Jean Donoho welcomed everyone to the February Board Meeting, particularly our new board members, Sandy Spears, Education and Diane Huguenard, Special Games. She congratulated Susan Cox for finding our new location for tournaments and thanked her and her committee for doing such a wonderful job.

Jean addressed the concerns that several board members had concerning the unusually high expense of repairing the furnace at the bridge center.  The cost included $1850.00 of labor and will hopefully save us from a much larger expense in the future.

Treasurer’s report:

Frank passed out a Balance Sheet and a Profit and Loss Statement comparing 2008 to 2007. The main difference was the purchase of our new chairs.  Another factor was that table rent was down for the year. In addition, Frank had gone to an accrual basis and the numbers for 2007 included thirteen months, while 2008 included only twelve.

Frank was going to check with Leslie London to see if he would do the required audit on the books.

The third page of his report was the financial information for the upcoming 2011 NABC. This money is only for the NABC and cannot be used for anything else.

Vangie made a motion to accept the Treasurer’s report, Ellen seconded and the motion passed.

Sectional Report

Susan Cox reported that we will be using the Highland Post on Bardstown Road, for our next three tournaments. There has been a problem with water on the bathroom floors, caused by a faulty water heater. While they will be replacing the water heater on Monday, we will have to put up with cold water in the bathrooms over the weekend.

After the trouble with our June Sectional, Susan proposed having a committee to clean up and work the tournament. This has worked very well and she will be continuing this practice.

Regionals

Hannah voiced concern about the increase in room rates at Horseshoe and how that was keeping some participants away.  We have a contract until 2012 and Scott Cox is going to review our contract to see what recourse we have.

Nationals

Hannah Davis reported that things were moving along for Nationals. She asked that everyone help in any way they were asked to make this tournament a success. Our job is to sell our city.  She has already asked a number of people to chair committees and should you be asked, please respond and help.  

Diane Huguenard suggested that we begin holding some sort of monthly publicity for the

NABC, to make LBA members aware of what it is and how important their participation

would be.

Directory

Jean Donoho picked up three hundred directories for $725.  She is selling them for $2.00

apiece and once her investment in the project is paid for, she will donate the rest to the

LBA.  Jean and Ellen will be selling them Saturday and Sunday during the Sectional.

Education

Sandy Spears reported that after offering a Bridge Club to the students at JCTC, she had a

response from six people.  Of the six, five had played bridge before and she is working

on finding a time that everyone can get together. Kit Overpeck is planning on teaching

for free.

Barren River:

Betsy reported that the new brochure needs to include the notation that they are on

Central time and that the Buffet will be in the middle of the afternoon.  Jean requested

that we not have to have our meeting up on the balcony as it was not conducive to

privacy.

New Business:

Jean presented a request that Beth Reid had received from the District to designate a

charity to be the recipient of a $1000 donation.  After much discussion Rex Swauger

made a motion that we designate “Dreams with Wings”, a charity that allows special

needs adults to live in an independent setting.  Ellen Schmidt seconded the motion and it

passed.

Having no further business, Ellen Schmidt moved that the meeting be adjourned, Betsy Blakeman seconded.  The meeting was adjourned at 6:45.

Respectfully submitted by Vangie Smith, Secretary Unit 117.