DISTRICT 13
AMERICAN CONTRACT BRIDGE LEAGUE
Units 123, 149, and 222 http://acbl-district13.org
Tobey Belmont, President2430 West Good Hope Road Glendale, WI 53209 (414) 351-3005 |
Stan Subeck, Vice-President2625 Corinth Road Olympia Fields, IL 60461 (708) 481-6819 |
Ellen Wiebe, Treasurer284 Cane Garden Aurora, IL 60504-2060 (630) 585-5450 |
Sandy O’Brien, Secretary12745 West Capitol #201 Brookfield, WI 53005 (262) 781-0700 |
Minutes of April 28, 2007
Present:
Tobey Belmont, Stan Subeck, Harriette Buckman, Ron Johnston, Peter Wilke, Mary Jane Fero, Glenna Shannahan, Denise Hoffman, Ellen Wiebe, Lavern Wiebe, Angie Clark, John Goldstein, Carl Sharp, Jeff Miller, Suzi Subeck, Marilyn Charlson, Sandy O’Brien, Rick Mueller, Tim Luker, Marge Thien, Frank Chadwell and Nikolay Demirev.
Tobey Belmont called the meeting to order. She introduced Georgia Heth from District 8.
John Goldstein moved to accept minutes. Angie Clark seconded.
TREASURER’S REPORT
Ellen Wiebe presented the Treasurers Report. In addition to the regular financial statements, Ellen has included columns with 3 and 6 year averages of income and expenses. Current cash in savings is $xxx; in checking $xxx. Cash in the Nationals account is $xxx. Results from the GNT for 2007 were much improved from 2006, although the actual table count was down.
District Stac game will be held the week of May 7th, but will not include Mother’s Day. Frank Chadwell moved to accept the treasurers report. Seconded by Angie Clark.
PRESIDENTS REPORT
Tobey mentioned that Stan Fuhrmann had to miss the meeting because of blurred vision and Tom Sucher had to miss the meeting because his wife Margaret had knee surgery.
Several petitions have been made to Tobey to transfer from our District to neighboring districts.
Stan Fuhrmann and Suzi Subeck are giving the District 13 website a facelift.
DIRECTOR IN CHARGE
Ron Johnston reported tournament attendance at current regional is running close to attendance of 2005. The attendance at the 7:30 PM games are down. Might want to change the schedule to include primarily day-time events. Maybe have a senior day, rather than daily senior events.
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TOURNAMENT SCHEDULING
Peter reported that the District will not run a Sectional at the end of May.
The District Stacs will be held May 7th – 12th and November 12th – 18th. Price will be $1.50/person for everyone in every unit.
NAOP Final will be at the Tommy Thompson center in Milwaukee on September 15, 2007.
We are running into some problems in 2008 with different Units within the District running events on the same weekend.
GNT
Jeff Miller felt that the GNT went off pretty well, with minimal problems. There was an issue as to what prize money would be paid to the teams that won each flight. The “conditions of contest” stated prize money would be $1000/team. But the Board never voted on a change.
Stan Subeck moved to change the stipend to $1,000 for 2007 to agree with the Conditions of Contest and to decrease the stipend for future years to $1,000 from $1,500/team. Increased entry fees should also be maintained. Marilyn Charlson seconded. Voting: 8 for, 2 against, 4 abstentions (Lavern & Ellen Wiebe, Angie Clark and John Goldstein).
NAOP
Note that the NAOP has been moved to Milwaukee for 2007 because of a problem with securing a site in the Chicago area.
Harriette Buckmann provided the board with Fact Sheet for having a split NAOP for Flight C only. The conditions include that the site must have at least 5 full tables, and must play the same day and at the same time as the scheduled NAOP.
WEBSITE GURU
Stan was unable to attend.
I/N NEWSLETTER
Suzi Subeck added teachers to mailing list.
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NEW BUSINESS
USBF Team Trials are looking for volunteers to work at the tournament to be held in Schaumburg, Illinois at the Hyatt June 1- June 10, 2007. Tom Sucher (630) 894-4048 is in charge of finding volunteers. Barbara Nudelman is also involved. Contact them if you wish to volunteer. Jobs include monitors for Vu-graph and keying in information.
Nominations
Carl Sharp provided the following list of candidates.
President – Tobey Belmont
Vice-President – Stan Subeck
Treasurer – Ellen Wiebe
Secretary – Sandy O’Brien
Sandy O’Brien informed that she had advised Carl that she wasn’t running. Denise Hoffman graciously said she would accept the nomination.
John Goldstein moved that we accept the slate of candidates. Seconded by Frank Chadwell. Motion accepted. Congratulations to all.
Tobey Belmont provided everyone with a proposal to give a “District 13 Distinguished Service Award”. This award would be presented to a person who performed exceptional service at the District 13 level. The District 13 President will make the final selection from candidates provided by the Unit Presidents.
Stan Subeck moved that the proposal be accepted. Marilyn Charlson seconded. Motion Passed.
Georgia Heth, District Director of District 8, shared information with our District about split regionals. District 8 has run a split regional between Rockford, Illinois and Paducah, KY for several years. There can be no premier pair events. Team events are scored separately. The tournament chairs between the two locations need to work closely together setting identical schedules.
Denise Hoffman said it would be nice if the District acknowledged the winners of the “Ace of Club”, “Mini McKenney”, and other ACBL masterpoint point races, that are the leaders at the end of each year in the District. It was decided that they should receive a letter of commendation from the President of the District.
Carl Sharp made a motion to adjourn. Seconded by Frank Chadwell.
Respectively submitted,
Sandy O’Brien, Secretary