Board Meeting - January 10, 2009
BOARD MEETING -- SAN FRANCISCO CLUB FOR THE DEAF
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Saturday, January 10, 2009 – DCC, San Leandro
UNOFFICIAL
President David Martin called in meeting at 9:18 AM.
Roll call: President David Martin, Secretary Jerry Grigsby, Treasurer Richard Bonheyo, Board Jaime Jackerson, Board Michelle Hughes, Board Brenda Call, Membership Director Judy Ford, Event Director Tom Murillo, Trustee Buddy Singleton, Trustee Elizabeth Grigsby, and Trustee Stan Smith.
Absent: None
Members: Ron Hirano, Karen Booth, Bill Booth, Karl Reed, Yuko Reed, Larry Venegas, and Jim Brune.
Pledge to the Flag: Jerry Grigsby
Minutes: David Martin moved that November 2008 Minutes be approved as corrected.
President David Martin’s Report:
He is now officially is the President of SFCD. He welcomed everyone at the meeting and wished them all Happy New Year. He feels that board will have a tough decision this year due to current economy situation. SFCD Board will wait for trustee to review our 2008 budget and let us know the budget amount for the year 2009.
Vice President VACANT Report:
No Report.
Secretary Jerry Grigsby’s Report:
I wished everyone a Happy New Year. I would like to know which board member is willing to run luncheon event. Board Michelle Hughes volunteered. I asked if anyone can give me a list of free lance interpreters. Reason for asking is to negotiate a good price to interpret our possible upcoming tours that SFCD plans to host. I would like to ask President to set up a task force to prepare for mortgage that is due this august 2009. Board agreed to the following to be on mortgage task force – Buddy Singleton chair, Board Jaime Jackerson and Stan Smith. I would like to have Retreat last week of February. Are there any more corrections to newsletter? I waited too long for other organizations to send in news article. I will go ahead and mail them out next week.
Treasurer Richard Bonheyo’s Report:
He had a meeting with our Merrill Lynch agent, Hlibrok. Hlibrok warned us to be more conservative due to the economy situation. Hlibrok also warned that economy may not go up for awhile. After receiving January statement, he will complete 2008 budget. He will work with trustee to determine amount of budget for 2009. He submitted October statement for review and approve today. Buddy moved that the financial report be approved. He let us know David Bullock, our CPA, will assign tax filings to someone in his office. Treasurer Bonheyo said his computer hard drive had crashed and lost some data. He will reload SFCD’s data by using the club’s checkbook.
Trustee’s Report:
Trustee Singleton gave the following report: We know we were supposed to elect trustee last November. Stan Smith has indicated that he would like to continue to serve as trustee term 2009-2011. The Board approved Smith to be Trustee. Trustee will work with Treasurer Bonheyo to determine budget for the year 2009. Trustee will email us the budget. Trustee would like the board to continue to pay for DCC room usage and host two parties for members of SFCD only in the year 2009.
Membership Director Judy Ford’s Report:
She wished us all a Happy New Year. She informed us that she deleted all members whose membership due date has expired in 2007. We now have 275 members.
Board Jaime Jackerson’s Report:
No report given.
Board Michelle Hughes’s Report:
No report given.
Board Brenda Call’s Report:
She would like to set up a youth SFCD club program. The board agreed to discuss this during retreat.
Event Director Tom Murillo’s Report:
We have three proposals to go over. They are NCDFF Film Festival, CSDF Academic Bowl, and DCARA.
Ad Hoc Committee:
By-laws – Chaired by Jerry Grigsby. Committee – David Martin and Buddy Singleton. No proposal that affects bylaw was submitted. No action taken.
DCARA New DCC – Put on back burner until DCARA decides which direction they will take.
Website – No report.
Sponsor Guideline – No Report.
SFCD Sponsored Organizations’ Report:
CalBASS: Will continue to provide fishing programs.
SFCD Stingers (Women’s Softball Team): Not Present.
CSDF - Middle School Football – Bengals: Not Present.
SFCD to host Pacific Coast Deaf Bowling Association/Pacific Coast Women’s Bowling Association’s Bowling Tournament in May of 2009: The tournament committee is all set up. The committee has all the necessary information and has created flyers. All meetings went well.
Northern California Deaf Campers: Asked that we continue to co-host Bocce Tournament in May.
DCARA: Jim Brune submitted a proposal requesting $5,000.00 to support the following events:
DCARA Community Night, Oktoberfest, and Thanksgiving. This proposal will be decided in March
Standing Business:
1. None
Old Business:
1. None
Old Business – Donations and Sponsorships:
1. None
New Business:
1. Ron Hirano/Judy Ford: Asked SFCD board to write a letter of intent giving support to BACDSC to host the Deaf Senior America bid in 2013. PASSED.
2. Yearly DCC Rental Room: REFER to next board meeting in March to discuss amount.
3. Larry Venegas/Judy Ford: Move to allow him to use our club name to create a softball team for the men. He would also like to use our club’s tax id to ask for sponsorships. PASSED with understanding that we will fill out MOU to protect our club.
New Sponsor/Donation Request:
1. North California Deaf Film Festival – Joey Baer/Brenda Call asked SFCD to be part of sponsorship for this event. PASSED and agreed to set up Return On Investment group to work with NCDFF. Group: Jerry Grigsby and Tom Murillo.
2. Academic Bowl – FAILED - Due to no Sponsor form submitted.
3. NCDC/SFCD – NCDC asked and Board agree to continue to host Bocce tournament this May 2, 2009. Board asked Judy Ford to reserve San Ramon Senior Citizen Park for us.
Action Items:
None
Announcement:
Elizabeth Grigsby wanted to say Happy 50th Birthday to Jerry Grigsby and 55th Birthday to David Martin.
Jim Brune announced that the DCARA will host three upcoming events:
January 20 – Obama Oath – at DCC, March – Deaf Community Night, and October – Oktoberfest.
Meeting was adjourned at 12:07 PM.
Respectfully submitted by
Jerry Grigsby
SFCD Secretary