Meeting Minutes: 5-15-2012
San Diego Table Tennis Association
Board Meeting
May 15, 2012
Balboa Park Activity Center Board Room
This meeting is open to all members of the SDTTA. Call to order 7:12 pm by James. SDTTA Board Members Present: Bill Chang, James Kahn, Shelley Hardy, and Shariq Ansari SDTTA Board Members not present: Ron Spencer and Borko Dragojlovic. SDTTA Member Present: Micki Farrell The approval of March 13, 2012 minutes was made by James and seconded by Shariq. Communications not on the agenda have a limit of 3 minutes. Action Items:- Treasurer’s Report: Bill Chang passed out two Treasurer’s Reports. March is reconciled through March 31, 2012 and April is reconciled through April 30, 2012.
- Webmaster Report –No report
- Equipment/Executive Director’s report: There was a question if we needed any new nets. It was tabled until the next meeting
- Membership report: Not available.
- Earl Alto resigned at SDTTA board member. Three people were nominated for the position, Mark Adelman, Frederick Cheung, and Micki Farrell. Ron called in his vote. Frederick Cheung was voted in with 5 votes to take Earl’s place as SDTTA board member. Thank you Frederick for joining the board. Thank you Mark and Micki for showing your interest in serving on the board.
- Bill Chang spoke to Stellan regarding the quarterly payment SDTTA gives the Stell/Angie coaching junior program. Stellan stated that he didn’t want the payment. Bill will come back to the next board meeting to clarify the clubs relationship with Stellan and Angie Bengsstrom.
- Old Business:
a. Tournament update: A meeting has been called for board members to meet Saturday, May 26 at 11 am to decide if the Neil Smythe memorial tournament is still possible this year. We need a tournament director and a date.
- New Business:
- SDTTA yearly club membership dues are $50. The motion proposing to keep the fee of $50 until Oct 1, 2012 and then charging $25 until the end of this year was made and seconded. The SDTTA board voted this proposal to be made effective immediately and to have this notice put on the website. The SDTTA junior fee will be adjusted accordingly to $15. The SDTTA family fee will be adjusted accordingly to $50.
- The SDTTA is aware that some members may have a hardship and are not able to pay the membership fee. The SDTTA board has set up a protocol for these persons to contact Suresh Kanecar and he will make the arrangements known to the SDTTA board regarding the member. This arrangement was made on past SDTTA boards and the present board members agree that this is a fair and respectful resolution for hardship cases. There will be a posting on our website regarding this issue.
- James brought up the possibility of stirring up interest for Friday nights at the club by having a floating round robin. People who are interested can sign up on the sheet posted on our board. This is a work in progress and adjustments to make it enjoyable will evolve. Everyone starts at the same time. The first players who reach 11 will stop and everyone stops. The winner goes forward and the loser backward. For those who haven’t finished, whoever has the highest score advances (if there is a tie they play for last point and that person advances). The Floating Round Robin will begin June 8th. James will be the leader for now. This will be posted on our website.
- James volunteered to check into a logo SDTTA table tennis shirt. He will report back to the board his findings.
The motion to adjourn was made by Bill and it was seconded by Shariq.
The next meeting is June 19, 2012.
Respectfully Submitted,
Shelley Hardy, SDTTA Secretary