Minutes. September 19, 2017
Members present:
Virginia Winn
Marguerite Frongillo
Connie Robinette
Jonathan Janzen
Natalie Weston
John Wetzel
Virginia presented the treasurer's report.
No reimbursements were reported to be needed by anyone.
The reports from our last dance were discussed.
The mailing list was discussed.
The booking report was delivered.
We
discussed recruiting students and other community members as dancers
and board members. No new candidates have been identified.
The selling of our old speakers came up briefly. Jonathan will be sending Virginia a check as soon as he has the money.
We discussed mailchimp and the newsletter.
Aaron
was not present to discuss this, and he may need to resign due to being
very busy and feeling unable to execute agreed upon board tasks.
There
was discussion to encourage Aaron to stay, as is input is needed,
even if he does not have time to do stuff like mailchimp.
The contra dance video is finished, and is reportedly of excellent quality.
We discussed the search for potential board members.
We discussed recruitment of students and other community folks.
There
was considerable discussion of caller training, including a suggestion
from Natalie that we might hold weekly classes for any candidates.
We discussed having quarterly pot lucks, and how much funding ought to go toward these, with no firm decisions made.
We
had extensive discussion of the idea of expanding to two dances per
month, and Victor offered a template for how this might be pulled off
without creating additional stresses for the staff that puts on the
dances we currently have. Victor's suggestion was explained in detail
and met with general (but informal) acceptance, as well as some
pushback. We agreed to table this issue for the future, and
mull/discuss it in the meantime. Formal decisions on this to be made
later. Heavy uses of donation jar (no front table staff) taped music
(no paid band and no sound tech) and volunteer callers (so that venue is
the only cost item) is the basis for the idea of trying this out. Any money collected above the hall rental would be divided equally and
distributed to the caller, the band providing the recorded music, and
the dance group.
The next meeting will be held on November 7, 2017.
