Houston Hockey Booster Club, Inc.

Minutes for 10/07/04

 

 

 

A board of directors meeting of the Houston Hockey Booster Club, Inc. was held on Thursday, October 7, 2004 at the home of President, Tom Huber.  Present at the meeting were President, Tom Huber; Vice President, Melanie Ogren; Secretary, Margaret Martin; Treasurer, Joel Konkel; Past President and Director, Ivan Kusjanovic; directors (Dale Humphrey, Mark Strace, Fred Trask, and Barbara Pride); Scrapbook, Jean Strace; Membership, Jane Woodring; Club Table, Sharilyn Prideaux; and Charities, Erika Kusjanovic.  A quorum being present, the meeting was called to order at 6:50 pm.

 

 

 

Business

 

Minutes from Previous Meeting – A motion was made to approve the minutes from the 9/14/04 meeting.  The motion was seconded and unanimously approved.

 

Treasurer’s Report – Joel stated that he was reconciled the bank statements.  The two memberships that were turned in back in April for the up coming season have been taken care of and will give to Membership.  He will get with Membership to discuss the table, collecting and get process down.  It was decided that we would temporarily delete the credit card payment option from the website until further information can be sought.  Fred volunteered to do both for the club.  Joel requested a list of last years members so he could see who will and will not get the offered discount. Joel is wanting to put together a budget.   One of the items for the Bylaws is Joel wants to set up an accounting period (July 31 to August 30) and keep everything in that time period such as Membership and Board Members.  

 

Membership – The membership pins have come in.  We will be giving out one per membership in the packet and if extras are wanted, we will sell them for $5.00 each.  It was decided that Jane would keep inventory of the pins.  Jane printed the forms and letters for membership and is waiting for list of members addresses to mail these items.

 

Table – Needs people to sign up for shifts.  Sharilyn was in touch with OJ about the badges and we will have them in time for the game.  OJ also told her that the banners used to be made there but they are no longer doing that.  OJ will help her find someone to do it.  Jane will also be looking into costs somewhere that she knows.  Melanie asked if anyone has seen our flag, it was last seen at the Banquet.

 

Charities –   Erika will be sending an article to Patrick and Fred on the garage sale and the Tickets For Kids.  Will also be sending an article that she is looking for members to join the Charities Committee so that she can get a group together to start discussing the banquet.  She is getting a flyer together for next weeks' general meeting.  She wants to put together the survey that was discussed previously to see what people liked and/or didn’t like about previous banquets.  Erika spoke to Kids Unlimited and they are interested in working with us again. 

 

Banquet – Melanie got approval to work directly with Jana.  She sent her an email asking if we could count on Aeros Charities for the Banquet.  A lot of the things they did for us last year, we can do for ourselves this year.   

 

Activities – No report.

           

Scrapbook – Jean is still in need of more pictures. 

 

Web – No report.

 

Garage Sale – Margaret has already received lots of donations.  Joel, Sharilyn, and Stephanie will be donating the use of tables.  Stephanie has agreed to make some signs for us.  Margaret, Erika, Stephanie, and Sharilyn have agreed to help out during the sale. 

 

Newsletter – Mark has completed the first newsletter.  Edits have been done and it is now posted on our website.  Copies will be made for the table for the first game.  It was discussed how often we want to do the newsletter and articles for the newsletter.  Sharilyn has an interview with OJ.

 

 

 

New Business

 

November’s Meeting Date – November’s Board Meeting was changed from Tuesday, November 9th to Wednesday, November 10th due to a conflict in schedule with the Aeros Fan Club.  The meeting will be held at the President’s house.

 

General Meeting October 12th – SROs is confirmed for this meeting at 7 pm.  Tom Garrity and Mike Krompf will be there, Tom Lynn will not.  Tom is trying to get a date from Tom Lynn after things settle down and then we will do Hockey 101.  Tom will email date out when he gets one.   

 

Committee Chairs – Tom asked for all Chairs of committees to pick their board member that they want to work with and to let him know who that person was. 

 

Post Office Box – The key to the post office box was found but no longer works.  A motion was made to set up a new mailbox.  The motion was seconded and unanimously approved.  Melanie stated she would like the four elected board members to be the signers on the box.  Tom stated that he would also like the four directors to be on the box also.       

 

November’s General Meeting – Melanie stated she would like to set up something with the player’s wives and girlfriends.  She would like to set up a Feed The Wives for a Saturday.  She would like to see if the wives or players support a particular charity that the Booster Club can help out with. 

 

Wildcatter game – A motion was made to for Melanie to purchase 20 tickets for $12.00 a piece for the Wildcatters game October 30th in Beaumont and for the Club to guarantee the purchase.  The motion was seconded and unanimously approved. 

 

 

A motion was made to close the meeting.  The motion was seconded and unanimously approved.  The meeting adjourned at 8:19 pm.