Onondaga Ski Club

Board Meeting Minutes

December 5, 2006

President Tom Button called the meeting to order at 7:09 p.m.

Present: Doug Ahlsen, Terry Avery, Jan Carr, Mary Clay, Christa Foster, Scott Foster, Jack Lancette, Jane McCarthy, Leo Naylor, John Sonne, John Tuttle, Karen Whedon

Excused: Mark Bidwell, Dick Butler, Kay Kotwas, Marv Patnode, John Whelan

Guests: Arley Morey

Secretary’s Report: John Tuttle made a motion to accept November minutes as posted, John Sonne seconded the motion; they were accepted

Treasurer’s Report: Was sent to officers and board members via e-mail. Scott questioned whether or not expenses in November included the second semi-annual payment to the Lodge caretaker and John S. acknowledged that it has been made. He reported that through recent growth of our investments almost half of the expenses of recent required lodge improvements have been recovered.

Committee Reports

-- Membership: Jack reported that combined 2006-07 membership is 593. Renewals are coming in slowly, he received about 50 recently. He attributes late renewals to not having a printed Boomer. Renewal forms haven’t been readily available. May have to be handled differently next year. 74 December paper Boomers were mailed.

-- Boomer: No report since Marv was not present. Deadline for the January Boomer is December 15.

-- Web Site: Arley reported that the club’s web site is now self-supporting through advertisements.

-- Lodge: Anyone interested in spending New Year’s Eve at the lodge should contact Mike and Marilyn McCabe. Diane Clark is also promoting a Martin Luther King weekend at the lodge through Jan’s e-mail.

-- Trips: Mt. Tremblant had to be cancelled; only about 10 people made a deposit. Leo suggested a carpool trip March 18-22. Pay for four days and get the fifth day free; $108/day for a room that holds up to four. Stowe has 34-36 signed up. No interest in Elk Mountain. Lake George had also no interest. Belleayre will be a go. Leo’s working on the cost of a bus for February 16. Lift tickets are $15 on Fridays, $25 other days. Garnett Hill is full. Per Arley, 54 people have shown interest in western trips and some have booked.

-- Racing: Arley reported that NASTAR is as big this year as last. Four to five teams on Sundays, including some former Ski Hawks racers. He expects all of last year’s racers back. He’ll also put teams together for Tuesday at Lab and Thursday at Song. Master’s racing is coming to Song and Lab. Feb. 25 is OSC Cup race date. Will be held on Cutthroat. Junior racers will also be invited this time.

-- Social: Night on the Town will be December 15 at Four Seasons; contact Norm. Happy Hour will be Tuesday, Dec. 19, at Scotch and Sirloin. January Happy Hour will be Jan. 25, 5 pm, at Smorol’s on Avery Avenue.

New Year’s Eve at Greek Peak reservations have to be in by general meeting. Contact Lou Wassel.

-- Book Club: Excellent meeting November 30, about 25 people attended. Thanks, Dianne.

Old Business: Age of children at lodge was discussed at the November meeting. The lodge committee will revisit that issue again before the upcoming general meeting.

Jane McCarthy was asked last month to act as greeter to new members and visitors at our general meetings. She did so last month and it was suggested that at future meetings she involve other board members to be host for the evening.

Business cards? No further progress has been made. Someone needs to take on the job of redesigning the card and possibly a list of activities on the back. Phone number has to be deleted.

New Business: Lou Wassel questioned the frequency of use of the club phone and its value to the club. The cost is $588 per year and referral numbers in the message are outdated. John Tuttle made a motion to eliminate the phone, Doug seconded. Motion passed and John Sonne will take care of it.

Doug suggested that we give new members a year of paper Boomers for free. The cost is $12 per year. Jack says he sends one issue to each new member. No further discussion.

Mary Clay suggested a schedule of Saturday XC ski outings to different local or Tug Hill areas and publicize it through the listserv. She’ll present her idea at the general meeting and ask for people to be leaders.

Jane thanked Jan for all the great work she does with communications on the e-mail.

John T. made a motion that the meeting be adjourned. It was adjourned at 8:09 pm.

Respectfully submitted,

Christa Foster

Recording Secretary