SLAGA Board Meeting Minutes

Meeting date: May 2, 2012

Present: Tom Wolpert, Mike Henthorn, Nathan Rover, Jim Nelson, Jim Greene, Rich Sheffold.

The treasurer’s report was read and accepted.

Old Business

·         Lifetime memberships: Lifetime memberships are now available on the web site. Tom Wolpert will publicize this in the next newsletter.

·         BEAT event:  SLAGA will sponsor a booth and family caching activity using temporary caches at the Brain and Spinal Cord Tumor Support Group’s resource fair on Saturday, May 19, in Tower Grove Park. Tom Wolpert has cache containers and GPSrs for this event. No further information is available from the organizers. Tom Wolpert will follow up.

·         Summer Picnic: Event page has been published.  GC3EYM8. Thanks to Cribbage Witch for hosting.

·         Fall Picnic: September 29 at the pavilion in Bolm Schuhkraft Memorial Park in Columbia, Illinois. Thanks to Steve Bromley for reserving the pavilion. To be hosted by walkingstic-stl, who have committed to the date and location.

·         Elections: The board discussed the nominations received at the Spring Picnic vs. the survey on the SLAGA web site. There are clearly people who indicated interest via the survey who have not been nominated. Board members will make some additional nominations. Tom Wolpert will publicize the nomination e-mail address (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) in the next newsletter.

New Business

·         Geocaching 101 class: The next class is scheduled for Saturday, May 5. We have 9 pre-registered attendees. Tom Wolpert will ask for more volunteers on the freelist and the Facebook group.

·         May Q&A: Monday, May 14, at Craftsmen Industries in St. Charles.  Mike Henthorn confirmed the date. There is no planned program. This is the last one prior to the summer hiatus.

·         Membership payments from Spring Picnic: Jim Nelson reports that everything is updated on the web site.

·         Donation to Cardinals Care: SLAGA is making a small donation in memory of Laurie Elfrank’s brother. Jim Nelson reports that he mailed a paper check to the charity.

·         Graham Cave Event on June 2: Missouri DNR has offered to comp our volunteers two camp sites. Tom Wolpert will e-mail some SLAGA members who both volunteer and camp to see if there is any interest. DNR requires a response by May 17.

·         Personal property taxes on trailer: When SLAGA renewed the plates for the trailer, we found that the necessary declaration had not been filed. Jim Nelson thought he had it sorted out with Jefferson County, but we did not receive the declaration form. Jim Nelson and John Elfrank will sort this out.

·         Federal tax return and Missouri corporate filing: The board discussed the due dates for these items.

·         Geocaching.com API: Nathan Rover suggested that the SLAGA web site might benefit from use  of the geocaching.com API. He volunteered to contact Groundspeak to see what is involved.

The next meeting is Wednesday, 06/06/12. If you want to attend, please contact one of the officers.