Corvallis
Aquatic
Team
Board of
Directors Meeting
April 9th,
2008
Members
Present: Rick Guenther, Greg Bostrom, Jeannie Schoper, Laura
Pfeifer, Carol Allen, Caroline Wells,
Kristin
Shreeve, Alan Wells, James Mellein, Jay
Celorie
The
meeting began at 7:03 PM.
Last
month’s minutes approved without change.
Reports:
Swimmer’s
Representative:
Caroline is working on the slide show for the awards
banquet. Needs to talk to Nathan
regarding using the projector.
Office
Manager
– nothing to report.
Treasurer
–
Jeannie billed
out for 123 swimmers; Greg has 128. This
is the lowest enrollment in 5 years.
$8,000 shortfall at this time; projects that we will deficit
$3,400 by
August 31st. Budget is
$15,000 for the CAT-a-thon, but with fewer swimmers may be hard to
reach that
goal.
Press
Liaison:
No report.
Coaches:
Rick
- Visited
Hoover
school Tuesday. 5-8 kids wanted more info
in each of the 3
classes. Open house coming up April 28th
– wear CAT t-shirts.
Greg,
Erin, and Caleb need raises:
$1/hour. Jeannie said that that was in
the budget.
Hawaii
trip plans finalized: 22
swimmers, 4 chaperones and the Guenther family.
2 nights at Bellows, rest of the time with Rick’s family.
Junior
meet – kids were well-behaved,
they broke every girls’ team record. 800
free relay got 11th place.
Taking
5 seniors to the Santa Clara
invite in
May.
Greg
– Has
the trophy league meets set up; in
May with Philomath; Lincoln
City in June,
thought
it’d be fun to spend the rest of the day at the beach; another meet in
July. 48 kids entered in Albany meet.
Masters
Representative – no report
Pool
Director
– James
said that the “April pools” day on the 5th went
well. There was water
safety/recreational opportunities. 211
people, up from 167 last year.
Inflatable teeter-totter popular, as was the penny toss.
Lifeguard
training classes going well.
Memorial
Day will be opening the outdoor pool. $1
admission on that day.
On
track for the Operations Management Software so that
registering can be done on-line.
Connie’s
in the new office.
Leaves Mike, Nathan, and Rhonda in the bubble.
Outdoor
pool covers need to be replaced. Will cost
$6,000 to replace. OSU girls will donate
$2,000; working on
Parks/Rec to donate $2,000; asking that CAT donate the other $2,000. Talked about fronting the $2,000 that would
come from Parks/Rec. Voted on and
approved the fronting of the money and the payment from CAT. James will work directly with Jeannie on the
fronted money.
Meet
Director
– Kristin
said that Koo Points wants to set up a booth at the CAT
open and would like to advertise in the heat sheet.
Approval was given for the advertising; not
for having a booth as it might create competition/bad feelings with JD
Pence.
Fundraising
– no
report
Housekeeping
Items –
no housekeeping items
Open
Discussion – CAT-a-thon
–
Alan will send out an official letter explaining the importance of
raising a
lot of money for this fundraiser.
Discussed whether Rhonda could put together the stats as to
which swim
group brought in the most money.
CAT
prowl/Awards banquet update – everything is moving along
well.
Old
Business –
no
report
New
Business –
One
parent brought up the cost of swimmer’s dues during post
regular season. It was higher than
before as the swimmer is now in a more advanced level.
Another
parent was concerned about the $60 charge for not
participating in the 11-14 meet. Would
like to work off the commitment time.
Alan said he would talk to her directly.
Carol
will take care of the record board.
The
meeting adjourned at 8:30 PM.