13 September 2003

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Charlotte

Guest
CCA Meeting 13 September Minutes

Meeting was held at Ron & Charlotte Nielsons house (in the new fish room)

Meeting was opened for discussion at 2:15 pm by Ron Nielson, President

OLD BUSINESS:

No old business was discussed

NEW BUSINESS:


Membership dues: Membership dues are due this month. Dues must be paid before you can vote for board members. Please contact our membership person, Tracey Kelly to renew your dues. (Checks can be made payable to Ron Nielson, until the club gets a treasurer and opens an account. ACTION

Elections for Board Members: To be held prior to the next meeting. Since we would like to give the ability to vote to ALL paid members a web-based poll will be conducted to vote in board members. IF ANYONE NOT PRESENT WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE SOMEONE (INCLUDING THEMSELVES) FOR A POSITION, PLEASE E-MAIL CHARLOTTE AT charlotte@fishpost.com. No more nominations will be taken after 21 September. The poll will be started on 22 September and will last for two weeks. Please be sure to keep checking the board for the poll to start. Only paying members can vote. The following nominations were taken:
President - Ron Nielson - Francine Bethea
Vice President - Pat Kelly
Treasurer - John Kim - Tracey Kelly
Secretary - Charlotte Nielson
Corresponding Secretary - Francine Bethea - Ron Nielson

Web-based Message Board Forum: The president encourage members to use the board in a positive way, since this is how we will be able to get new members from our web site.
The Yahoo group email will no longer be after 11 October.

PayPal Account on the Club Web site: You will soon see a PayPal account button on the web site. This can be used for new members joining and to renew dues.

Members were asked what they would like to see in our club in the future. The following is a list:
- Community Support
- BAP simplified
- Enforcement of activities if someone offers to do something follow through
- More fund raisers
- Fixed meeting locations in advance
- More formal meetings with speakers / topics
- More organized schedule
- Small classes at each meeting to share knowledge
- Communications among members & non-members

The following members renewed their membership:
Joe Szelesi
Ghazanfar Ghori
Ron & Charlotte Nielson
Archie Christen (and significant other)
Pat & Tracey Kelly
Steve Lofgren
John Kim & Michelle McCoy

**plus two new members joined**


Meeting was adjourned at 3:30 pm
 

Pat Kelly

CCA Member
You can contact Tracey through me or if you want to send in the check
because you could not be at the Sept meeting, then send to my address.

1804 Petula Court
Forest Hill, Md 21050

We will then mark you as paid and forward the check to Ron or the new
Treasurer at October meeting.
 
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