Board of Directors Meeting 10-25-17
BoD members present: Cheryl Doran, T.J. Muller, Forrest Wilson, Ken Sallot, Al Clements, Bob Schulte, Jon Bernot
Members Present: Brett Floren, Edd Sorenson, Peter Friedman, Reggie Ross, Renee Powers.
Called to order 7:05pm
Secretary Report: Motion to accept minutes by Ken Sallot, seconded by Bob Schulte. Six in favor, Al Clements abstained.
Chairs report: Long discussion about forming corporations to protect our properties. Lawyer needs to know who will be Chair, and how he/she will be voted in. It should be a long time member of the NSS-CDS.
Cheryl Doran made a motion to name the corporations the spring name followed by LLC. Al Clements seconded. Six in favor, Bob Schulte abstained.
Treasurer’s report:
Net income from July 1 to 10/25 was -$3612. That includes:
Taxes filed in August and filing fees
Board insurance renewed in August ($1483)
Retainer and corporate filing fees with Hobby & Hobby (October 9th, $3100)
Caverns Measureless to Man ($3015)
Pending / Upcoming Bills:
- UWS (printing and design, haven’t received invoices yet)
- T-Shirts / other inventory
- DEMA (they sent renewal bill for 2018 – are we going to go?)
- Card printer (soonish)
Midwest Workshop
Midwest Workshop
Income:
Receipts Day of: $3,020
Eventbrite: $1,039.02
Sponsor (KISS): $300
Expenses
Eventbrite fees: 54.45
Pizza (Forrest Wilson): 315.00
Event Supplies (Bill Harrison): 74.38
Event Supplies (Josh Shouse): 42.72
Event Supplies (Kyle Vandermolen): 70.27
Additional Supplies day of (Target and Walmart): 44.06
Request: Order new run of pamphlet. Costs:
60#white regular stock
100 = $134.05
500 = $330.90
1000 = $534.95
100#white gloss text
100 = $158.35
500 = $398.90
1000 = $643.60
Committees report: Gene Page won the photo contest for the calendar. Discussed printing the calendar.
Michael Angelo is stepping down for 6 months. It was suggested that Michael Angelo not totally step down, but instead train Kyle Moschell and Tracy Niesent to do the in water work for the next six months.
Frank McNamara will be the new Equipment and Technology chair.
Much discussion about Accident Analysis committee. Nothing decided. Bob is going to try to simplify the committee directive.
Vice Chair report: Nothing to report.
Workshop chair report: Workshop 2018 will be May 18-20. Friday social will be at the Citizens Lodge. The Workshop will be at the Ag Center. Demos, etc. will be at Jackson Blue. All diving, and pavilion fees will be waived.
Properties report: The lock for the Cow Springs gate will actually be less than what was approved at the last meeting, because it will be re keyed, instead of replaced.
There have been 187 divers in Cow since the last report.
Training Committee report: There is an institute in progress for a candidate from Belgium.
Jon suggested digitizing the Blueprint for Survival, and training manual. The registration fee for students would be raised a little to compensate for the money lost selling printed copies.
Jon Bernot made a motion that the fee for an overhead nitrox class would be waived during the winter workshop, February 17 at Hart Springs. Ken Sallot seconded – unanimous.
Ken Sallot made a motion the Bob Schulte rewrite his proposal and email the BoD for approval. Al seconded – unanimous
Forrest Wilson made a motion to have the membership vote to return to the 2013 constitution and bylaws Bob Schulte seconded. Forrest, Bob, and Ken voted for, Cheryl, Al, and T.J. voted against. Jon left before the motion, so couldn’t vote. Motion failed.
We went into semi closed session to discuss an issue brought to our attention by Brett Floren. The discussion lasted nearly an hour. The final outcome was that the Safety Officer would talk to the person in question about the dangers of what they were accused of.