Attendees: Joe Shieh, Vanetta, Tom Nunan, Richard C, Steve W, Michele F
New Officers
- New business cards- will be printed by Richard
- Tom has updated all email aliases
- New commodore for proxy in April: Uwe, Wayne,
- New secretary for proxy in April: gabriel, simon, clara ng,
Calendar 2007
- Camping at Francis Ong's house on Lamma Island
- Possibility of sailing to camping at Clara's grandma's house - Sha Long Wan
- Plan to have a competitive team and a social team for the Dragonboat races.
- Check with Marianne Kolding if interested in social Dragon Boat team organization.
- Dropping commodore's cup between the 2 regattas
Cheung Chau Challenge
- Change of CCC to be normal regatta not club vs club -- Joe will confirm rules with Brenda; Vannetta will book hotel.
Brian Training
- Proposal to set a limit on budget
- Steve has sent an email to Brian before the AGM indicating that the club lost a significant amount for the 2006 training.
- Suggested that we cover Brian's airfare and local housing, but he book his own courses at whatever rate.
- Steve will call Brian and discuss.
- Tom wants to discuss member vs non-member training prices.
- Tom will contact the CPA guy who was interested in a big group training.
Hut Locks
- Now changed to new code and sent out with membership notes.
- Consideration of using electronic cards for locks rather than combination codes which seem to be getting distributed to many non-members
Paddling Members
- Since we did not have a paddling rep at the committee meeting, we will set-up a separate catch-up meeting.
Treasury Report
- Beachmaster will place stickers on paid boats, and we will tag sails in sail hut also indicating ownership and payment.
- A map will be sent to members showing all boats on the beach and asking them to indicate which is theirs.
- A map with the boat locations will be cross-referenced with the membership payments to determine which boats are outstanding on payment.
- We will communicate our intention to remove any boats, sailing or other, that do not pay by the final deadline
- Treasurer indicated that we were dangerously low on fees due to the higher expenses on hut and training at the end of the year and actually lent the club money to cover expenses. Now we are positive in the account.
- Request to have a regular review of budget while we are in a tighter cash position.
- Treasurer requested to change the term of the insurance to start later so we don't try to collect fees across christmas holidays. Next insurance term will be 14 months so we can shift out collection.
- Treasurer reported that of the 75 people billed, 60 had so far paid, with 15 outstanding. Reminders will be sent again.
