Corvallis Aquatic Team
Board of Directors Meeting
December 12th , 2007
 
Members Present: Alan Wells, Rick Guenther, Greg Bostrom, Jeannie Schoper, Laura Pfeifer, Lindsay Parker, Carol Allen, Jackie Rochefort, Suzanne Marinello, Jay Celorie, Caroline Wells, Tom Brooks, Bill Boyce, James Mellein
The meeting began at 7:00 PM.
 
Last month’s minutes approved without change.
 
Reports:
Swimmer’s Representative: Caroline talked about the bowling party to be held before the afternoon practice on either January 2nd  3rd  or 4th , preferably the 4th .  Everyone should bring $1, CAT will pick up the rest of the cost.     
 
Office Manager – Laura said that regarding the team pictures, there were 18 responses: ½ wanted retakes, the rest said don’t bother, but don’t use again.  Discussion regarding the background didn’t suit the larger team picture as individual pictures were good. 
As of last Friday, there were 9 swimmers with outstanding paperwork.  Jeannie asked that she receive a list of who they were.
 
Treasurer – Jeannie reported that financially we are about $6,000 below where we were last year; expenses up $3,000, income down $3,000.
Jeannie has 136 swimmers; Greg has 129. 
Fundraising - Received entire check ($6,000) from Salbasgeon, received $1500 from HP.
Tom Brooks brought up a possible dining out night at Appleby’s where portion of dining is donated to CAT.   
Togo’s will be at Senior Open and is giving 20% of their sales to CAT.  CAT will sell Gatorade and water at front desk.
 
Press Liaison: Will be an article in the GT regarding CAT within next couple of days.
 
Coaches:
Rick - 
There will be heat sheets for sale at the Senior Open finals, $2 each.
Stephanie needs to get the time standards for Sr. Sectional and  National.  Alan will talk to here about that.
The team has new caps, black with CAT logo. 
New-comers meet went really well.  About 30 kids participated.  Seniors helped out with the meet – would like to do it every 6 months.
OSI now requires receipts for anyone who goes to Nationals.
 
 
 
Greg –
It was decided not to do the white elephant exchange this year – too much going on with late notice. 
Will be gone until next year visiting family…. Sean Daly will be covering the workouts.
There are enough 11 – 12 yr old boys to have both an A and B relay.
Kristin Shreeve interested in becoming the meet director.  Alan said that he would get in touch with her to finalize that.
 
Masters Representative CAT lost 2 swimmers to the Timberhill club.
 
Pool Director – James said that one of the lifeguards’ mom died – other guards stepped in to cover his shifts. 
Outdoor pool should be open for W/U and cool down Saturday morning.
Mike Fisher out on honeymoon.  If need help for anything, ask James.
Would like to enforce that CAT swimmers sign in when coming in through the door – important regarding security and accountability. 
Asked if there was anything that they could do to help out with the meet.  Pulling out the bleachers and pulling diving board up would be great.  Also, thanks for putting up the banner – it looks great!
 
Meet Director – not in attendance at this meeting
 
Housekeeping Items – no housekeeping items
 
Old Business –
  1. Laura and Nathan worked to get file cabinet.
  2. CAT banner is up.
  3. Jay picked up the relay record board.  It should be up before the Senior Open.
  4. Suzanne is now putting the final touches on the marketing flyer – passed them around for input.  Thanks to Kelly for starting this project.
  5. Bill started the level I of the gold, silver, and bronze award based on team’s performance.
 
New Business –
1. Suzanne is concerned that we will not have enough marshals.  Bill stated that it is the meet referee who determines how many marshals are needed.   It was decided that we had enough parents to draw from and that it shouldn’t be a problem.
2.  Bill talked about the USA Swimming Team Recognition program in which a swim team can earn up to $12,500.  There are 4 different levels in this gold/silver/bronze program.  These awards are given based on the performance of the swimmers.  Has almost completed the paperwork to get to level one. 
                                                           
 The meeting adjourned at 8:25 PM.