25 October 2003

 

 

The District 6 Meeting was called to order by the President at 10:30 AM at Ocean City, MD.   Present:

 

            Officers:  President:    Bill Cole

                            Vice-President:  Kay Afdahl

                            Treasurer:    Steve Robinson                       

                            Secretary:    Bette Dudka

 

            Unit Presidents:  Lynn Rattinger (231), Toni Rosenblatt (135),  Krus Kristiansen (Proxy

           146),  Dick Wegman (147), Margot Hennings (Proxy 218), Wyatt Mapp (Proxy 110).

                                              

Representatives: Darwin Afdahl, Anne Duty, Barbara Moomy, Gloria Brown (146), Michael Carroad, Rae Dethlefsen, Millard Natchwey, Nadine Wood, Charity Sack (147), Andre L’Heureux  (218), Patricia Wilson (135). 

 

Guest:  Jean McKenney, Tournament Chairman

 

1.  Minutes: The minutes of 23 August 2003 were corrected to read that the new compensation policy for the NAPs will go into effect in 2004.    With this correction, the minutes were approved as presented.

 

2.  Treasurer’s Report:  Steve Robinson distributed a written Treasurer’s Report indicating a checking account balance of $20,401.08.  Many outstanding bills have yet to be paid -- the largest ones are  $5,000 for Table Talk and  $4,000 for NAP. 

 

3.  District Coordinator’s Report:  Millard Nachtwey advised the Unit Presidents that it was time to schedule their events for 2005.  He also gave a report on the finals of the NAP which had to be re-scheduled at the last minute.   

 

4. Finance Committee Report:   Andre L’Heureux stated the Education Committee forwarded a letter received  from WBL requesting money  for teachers, publicity, pamphlets, etc.  The Finance Committee considered the request, and Mr. L’Heureux is going to write a letter to the WBL President offering suggestions to try to work something out. 

 

            Every year the Finance  Committee has a audit of their books and it needs to be sent to our District Director and ACBL.  We had a committee review the books and this will be sent to the D6 Director for further dissemination, if need be.   

 

5.  GNTs Coordinator’s Report:  Rae Dethlefsen reported everything was on track.  Kay Afdahl made a motion that it be made procedural policy that the qualifiers of the GNT and NAP be notified at least a month in advance that they had qualified.  Dick Wegman seconded the motion.  Motion carried.  

 6.  NAPairs Coordinator’s Report:  No report.

 

7.  District Director’s Report:  Nadine Wood said she had appointed Steve Robinson to the Goodwill Committee.  She said she had one more appointee this year and asked the Board for suggestions.

 

8.  District Charity Repot:  Gloria Brown stated the District Charity Game for 2004 would be held Wednesday, 10 March 2004 for the AM game, and Thursday, 11 March 2004, for the PM game.  Ms. Brown said the Board had discussed rotating the charity game to different days of the week, but she never received a go-ahead.  The President said he would put this on the agenda for Williamsburg. 

 

 9.  STaC Report:    Michael Carroad stated the next  StaC would be 23-29 Feb 2004.

 

OLD BUSINESS:   

 

Report on Money Left Over from the 2002 NABC:     Margot Hennings presented a plan submitted by Rusty Kraus, an investment counselor, which “pretended”  D6 was a 63 year old male.  It was a personal investment plan -- 50% stocks, 50% bonds, with the reallocation over the years in an extremely conservative approach.  Margot made a motion that we consider this plan.  Motion seconded.  After discussion, the motion did not carry.

 

Williamsburg/Roanoke Regionals:   The President reminded the Board that every two years D6 has a Regional in Williamsburg in January.  The MABC suggested that we might want to put Roanoke in this rotation -- giving Williamsburg and Roanoke each a Regional every 4 years.   Both Lynn Rattinger (for the rotation) and Wyatt Mapp (against the rotation) gave their proposals on how the rotation would affect their Units.  Toni Rosenblatt called for a weighted vote.  The President called for a secret ballot.  After voting, the rotation remains the same -- Williamsburg every 2 years.  Roanoke will be the first to have a Regional after a D6 National. 

 

NEW BUSINESS:   None.

 

            The President thanked and congratulated Jean McKenney and her staff for hosting a Regional which everyone seemed to enjoy.

 

Date of Next District 6 Meeting: The next meeting will be a breakfast meeting on Saturday, 17 January 2004 at Williamsburg, VA, at 1030 AM, in the Terrace room (across from the swimming pool).  Please notify the Secretary if you plan to attend. 

There being no further business, Steve Robinson moved that the meeting be adjourned. Kay Afdahl  seconded the motion.   The meeting stood adjourned at 12:15 PM. 

  Respectfully submitted,

  BETTE DUDKA, Secretary