Minutes
WBL Board Meeting
In attendance: Barbara Doran,
Steve Robinson, Dave Ruderman, Dick Wegman, Don Berman, Ben Laden, Fred King, Barbara Shaw and
non-voting member Michael Carroad.
The meeting was called to order
by President Barbara Doran at
Barbara announced that she is giving
President’s awards to Leslie Shafer, Lee Biggs, and Alice Wegman.
She has purchased a gift for retiring tournament chairman Lee Jensen. The elections
chairman is Jim Allen. She received a letter from Charity Sack about the free plays
she did not receive for winning the Tubbs award last year. It was decided that we
would print up colored tickets for free plays so that accounting would be easier
for Director Michael Carroad.
The minutes were approved. Barbara
was asked to bring 25 copies of the minutes from last year’s annual meeting to this
years meeting.
Treasurer, Steve Robinson reported
that we have $10,173.56 in our checking account and approximately $19,000.00 in
the Money Market account. He was asked to bring 25 copies of the annual report to
the annual meeting in May. Dave Ruderman wanted to know
how much money we receive from duplicating boxes of boards. Rick Larkin duplicates
boards for a charge of $12.00 per box of 36 boards. He receives $9.00 and the WBL
receives $3.00 per box. Dick Wegman and Ben Laden asked
that Steve list free plays for the Unit games separately in his monthly report.
Both thought it would be helpful in tracking the number of free plays we give each
year. The treasurer’s report was approved.
Mid-Atlantic Regional Report
It is the Mid-Atlantic’s Alexandria
Regional but the WBL gets to appoint the chairman. The host Unit receives $1500.00
from the Mid-Atlantic but the amount is reduced by any late charges applied. We
had a budget due to the Mid-Atlantic by March 30th which is not in yet. We are incurring
late charges. Michael Carroad said that he would talk to Lee about getting the budget
in to the Mid-Atlantic. Kathy Kruskal needs help getting
a Volunteer Coordinator and Information Chairman.
Ben Laden reported that we have a
Sectional coming up in May which will be held at the Christ the
Once again we discussed tabulating
the results of the surveys. We received about 110 surveys. Dick Wegman said that we need to tabulate the surveys and publish
the results. Barbara Shaw reminded the board that they have a tabled motion from
last year’s annual meeting about Sunday start times at the Sectionals. That issue
on the survey should be tabulated and reported at the annual meeting if nothing
else. The board agreed. A committee consisting of Barbara Shaw, Dave Ruderman, Michael Carroad, Ben Laden, Don Berman and Barbara
Doran will meet Tuesday, April 29th at Barbara Shaw’s to tabulate the results of 5 selected questions deemed most important
at this time. Questions to tabulate were start times and breaks, appeals, Zero Tolerance,
$2.00 extra playing site charge, 17-19 suggestions. Donna Rogall
will e-mail the surveys on Don Berman who will bring them to the meeting.
Don Berman asked about carpooling
on the net. He said that no one has ever used the net to obtain carpools. Dick Wegman asked that we update information on the net and clean-up
old information. We should take off names when the dates have past. There are about
15 names now on the net asking for partners.
Fred King, Education Chairman, reported
that the teaching manuals which we agreed to purchase can be ordered cheaper by
Leslie Shafer and Mary Jane Von Moss. The books will cost only $6.50. They will
order 60 of the Club series and 40 of the Diamond series. The books will be delivered
to Fred King.
Fred King reported on Unit Growth.
He and Dick Wegman had lunch with Bob Levy from the Washington
Post. Bob was interested is helping and said that he tried to get information in
the Weekend Section but they were not interested. He said that he would try for
the Style Section. He edits Frank Stewarts Bridge Column and said that he might
be able to put in a sentence if you want to play locally go
to the WBL and NVBA Web sites for information.
Fred also said that they discussed
starting and interscholastic competition. Three schools would be enough to start.
We could give out scholarships for winning and trophies. We need a coach for each
school and a teacher sponsor. Blairs sponsor left the school that is why the
program was discontinued there. Steve Forsythes lessons have between 4 and
5 tables and cost $5.00 for the game and lesson.
Steve Robinson then presented an idea
for the future. Would we like to own our own building? He made a motion that we
establish a building fund of $.05 per table. If something materializes then we would
have some money. If not the money would go back into the treasury. Dick Wegman seconded the motion. The motion was tabled for discussion
by the new board to be elected before the next board meeting.
Dick Wegman
thanked Barbara Doran for her 10 years of service to the board and Dave Ruderman for his 7 years of service. Dave will be retiring from
the board while Barbara will remain on for one more year as the immediate past President.
Barbara has been on the ACBL Board of Governors for 19 years.
The board thanked Barbara Doran for
hosting the meeting. The next meeting will be at Dick Wegman’s
May 28th.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:00
P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
Barbara Shaw, Recording Secretary