Onondaga Ski Club

Board Meeting Minutes

October 3, 2006

President Tom Button called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m.

Present: Doug Ahlsen, Terry Avery, Dick Butler, Jan Carr, Mary Clay, Christa Foster, Scott Foster, Jack Lancette, Jane McCarthy, Leo Naylor, Marvin Patnode, Scott Severance, Karen Whedon, John Whelan

Excused: Mark Bidwell, Kay Kotwas, John Sonne

Guests: Kurt Londhair, John Tuttle

Secretary’s Report: Motion made by Scott, seconded by Jack to accept the September minutes as sent via e-mail and posted on the web site. Accepted.

Treasurer’s Report: John e-mailed the report to board members. He indicated in his e-mail: 1. The Covewood trip is complete with an exact income and expenses of $2,600. John Whelan does a great job with the trip financial data. 2. The Vanguard fund is inaccurate and stands at $42,932.26, an increase of about $500, due to electronic updating and inaccurate initial values. 3. Cost of lodge questionnaire project was $163.20 so far, including postage, envelopes and printing. Only a portion of the stamps were attributed to the questionnaire since the bulk of the postage was for membership renewals. 4. In addition, the accounting expenses dropped by $500. Jack objected to part of the postage being charged to Membership.

Committee Reports

-- Adopt a Highway: 11 present. Cleaned OSC’s area of Rte 81, those participating included three board members.

-- Biking: Good biking season. It is now ended; the wrap-up party was held at Carol and Neville’s.

-- Road Rally: Well attended, 36 people plus 8 people who only attended the party at Zimmers. Larry and Jan were organizers; Jan catered the food with Janice helping out. Great rally, great food. Bill Beaudin and Judy Swanson were winners, Chris Lancette and Donna Willis came in second, Dianne and Lou third.

-- Membership: Going in leaps and bounds, So far 136 renewed, total membership 561.

Long Range Planning, nothing to report.

-- Boomer: Marv changed the ads page which resulted in the renewal of one of the long- running ads.

-- Lodge: Work weekend is scheduled for Oct 23-24. Workers’ meeting Oct. 4. Three windows still need to be brought up to code. Marv repaired the front door lock during the bike weekend at the lodge.

-- Trips: Stowe has about 15-16 signed up. No interest yet on Elk Mountain. Lots of questions on Belleayre Mtn. New owners at Garnet Hill so no info on cost available yet for Jan. 19-21 weekend.

Fall hike in Ithaca this weekend, organized by Janice. John Whelan will lead October 14 hike at Whetstone State Park, 5 miles of trails, dinner at Franklin Hotel; and October 22 hike at Fillmore Glen State Park. Other fall hikes will be announced via e-mail.

Arley has some bargain rates on tickets and places to stay for anyone interested in western trips. He’ll email information to all interested skiers.

-- Social: Night on the Town Oct. 13 at Fresno’s in Camillus (Norm). Happy hour October 18 at Colorado Mining Company (Mary and Dianne). Fall fling October 21 at Fireside Inn (Norm).

Old Business: Survey copying and mailing was accomplished well under budget. Marv calculated survey results and presented them to the board. More surveys have been received and still more are expected. Marv will reevaluate after October 15 deadline.

New Business: John Tuttle was asked to fill a vacant board position. Marv made motion, Scott seconded. Motion passed. John. Thanks John for agreeing to serve on the board.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:55 p.m. after a motion was made by Karen and seconded by Jan.

Respectfully submitted,

Christa Foster

Recording Secretary