SLAGA Board Meeting

June 7, 2018

6:00 pm

Chemical Interchange

Attendees – Kathy DeWitt, Tony Colter, Bill Lange, Patricia Hutchison, Dave Dewitt, John Elfrank

                The meeting was called to order at 6:06 pm.

                Motion to approve the May minutes was made by Bill, seconded by Tony. The minutes were unanimously approved.

                Motion to approve the May treasurer’s report was made by Patricia, seconded by Bill. The treasurer’s report was unanimously approved.

Old Business

• Newsletter – Newsletter will go out in August.
• E-mail blast – Another email blast about the upcoming elections and request for volunteers will go out by the end of the month.

• Upcoming Events:
  • Summer Picnic – 7/21/18, St. Francois State Park. Mr. Boneparte will be hosting. The trailer has been requested for this event. John will bring it.
  • Fall Picnic – 9/22/18, Greensfelder Park, Dogwood Shelter. The shelter reservation has been made and is paid for, per Laura. Tony will host.
  • 2019 Summer Picnic – Quailman2 has requested to host this picnic on their property.

• Geocaching 101 Classes – Class dates for Queeny Park have been confirmed by Laura and are listed below.
  • September 15, 2018.
  • December 1, 2018.
  • March 30, 2019.

• SLAGA Geocoin
  • Geocoin – SLAGA still has the new coins for sale. Contact Kathy DeWitt to purchase.
  • Pathtags – The tags are currently backburnered but may be ready by the Fall Picnic.

• Adopt a Park – Nothing new at this point.

• The SLAGA Trailer was cleaned and organized at the Spring Picnic. The canopy will be delivered to Mr. Boneparte at the Summer Picnic.

• SLAGA Website – One user was experiencing some issues logging onto the website, but Dave helped solve it.

• Fundraiser – The fundraising goal was exceeded and production has begun on the memorial marker for Glenn and JoAnna Nash’s son. John described to the board the inscription, which will include a tracking number for visitors to discover. This is the first trackable grave marker in SLAGA’s territory. The stone is scheduled for delivery in 8-10 weeks from date of order and John will notify the board once it is in place.

• MOGA – John reported to the board regarding MOGA items. Swag items were inventoried and returned to John for disposition into future MOGA caches as swag. Geocoins from MOGA had been previously sold and the proceeds from the sale were voted by the board (motioned by Tony, seconded by Bill) to be added to the funds John turned over to SLAGA for deposit into a separate, new account for MOGA, to be used for future MOGA events.

• MOGA 2019 – John updated the dates for MOGA 2019 to Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6, 2019. He has put a deposit on the venue – Monroe City Knights of Columbus Hall – and provided a copy of the contract as well as a budget for the event.

New Business

• Request for Volunteers – The SLAGA officers received an email requesting that SLAGA participate in a Boy Scout Jamboree on September 29, 2018. The request indicated that there would be a table set-up as well as potential temporary caches for Scouts to practice using GPS units. Bill will contact the requestor to advise him we are seeing if anyone can help.

Next Meeting

• The next meeting will be held August 3, 2018 at Chemical Interchange at 6:00 pm.

• Adjournment
  • Tony motioned for the meeting to be adjourned and it was seconded by Bill. Motion passed unanimously. The meeting adjourned at 7:10 pm.