Maca Board Meeting Minutes |
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03-18-02 |
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Kennedy Senior Center, Natick, Mass |
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Minutes
Prepared by Mark Kaprielian, Clerk |
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Scheduled: 7:30 PM |
Opened: 7:58 PM |
Closed: 9:58 PM |
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Board Members |
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Guests Present |
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Pres |
Robert King |
Present
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7:45 |
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V.P. |
Steve Frymer |
Present
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8:04 |
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Treas. |
Bob Messenger |
Present
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7:47 |
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Clerk |
Mark Kaprielian |
Present
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7:25 |
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Stephen Dann |
Absent
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Larry Eldridge |
Absent
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Tony Gavelis |
Present
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7:45 |
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Gus Gosselin |
Present
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8:08 |
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Peter Lee |
Present
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8:08 |
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Tim Oliveri |
Absent
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Harvey Reed |
Absent
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Vacant |
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Note: All vote tallies
are shown as For – Against –
Abstention, e.g. 5 – 2 – 1 |
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President, Robert King submitted to Chess Horizons an report about Maca Tournament’s success in 2001 and about the circumstances of our incurring a loss due to Enron.
Messenger, Gosselin
To approve the Draft 1 minutes of 01-14-02 meeting with the correction of the following: Clarification of upcoming events in the Scholastics Coordinator Report and the discussion time for the report. Under Old business, removed reference to Rica proposal being discussed.
Passed: 6-0-1
Motion_2002-03-02
Messenger, Gosselin 2nd
To authorize a pay-down of $2000 to reduce the debt that is owed to the Life membership fund.
Passed: 7-0-0
Discussion: 3 minutes 8:23 – 8:26
Report time: 14 minutes: 8:17 – 8:31
Since the last meeting the following approximate number of memberships have been received:
Mass 50 – 25 Juniors and 25 adults
RI - 6
Misc States - 16
Total of about 78 memberships were turned over to the
Database Processor.
The Coordinator reported that the database is up to date for all submitted information. It is expected that labels for the April issue will be printed this week. Anyone who has additional changes needs to submit them right away.
Discussion: 10 minutes 8:20 – 8:30
The Web Master reported that there were two very
unusual occurrences regarding the Web and its facilities occurred since the last
meeting.
The first was that the Youth list members had their
mailboxes flooded with bounced messages due to a configuration error in the
list. This also brought done our
providers servers.
The web masters list also suffered a similar problem
due to an email box being full. This
problem was caught early with only the web team suffering the
consequences. Some reconfiguration of
how the lists work is being done to make the lists less susceptible.
Report Duration: 11 minutes 8:32 – 8:43
A TLA and Flyer for the Mass Open has been created with the TLA being sent into the USCF.
The Mass Game 60 have 3 entries so far.
The Danvers tournament looks like it can’t be held at the traditional site. Some discussion about renaming it and or having the picnic as part of the event was held. Possible dates for a tentative date to hold the event is Saturday August 3rd, 10th, or 17th.
The MetroWest Chess Club site will be examined for availability for those dates.
Report Duration: 14 minutes 8:43 – 8:57
The State Championship event had 44 players. The event went very well. Steve Frymer did an excellent job of tracking who was playing and making sure that all the fees and commitments were honored. Some parents had an issue with the way tie breakers were done. In the 4th though 6th there were four people tied for first. The committee will reexamine the co-champion issue.
The Gus Gosselin Grade School Championships had 170 players. Every grade had their own section to play in except grades 11 and 12. Some sections had about 25 players, which is a very good number.
One suggested improvement was that the trophies should go to more places if we know that there will a large number of players.
The Coordinator feels that all the players were well served this year, meaning the top players as well as the young and lower rated.
Volunteers to be recognized for their help are: Tony Gavelis, Steve Frymer, Tim Oliveri, MarryAnn Reilly, Helen Thomas, Lucy Lockwood, Sandy Wilson, John Bracken, Joseph Boyken and Robert Messenger.
The Team tournament on April 7th is the next event. There was no TD set for the event so Bob Messenger volunteered to TD the event. 30 tables will be needed for the event. Capacity for 296 players is being planned for the Natick High School site. No food is permitted on site. Research on getting a catering truck to be present.
The two events netted $1066.44
Two Lap top computers at an exceptionally great price of $350 each were purchased for ongoing scholastic use. The machines are Pentium 4 400Mhz, 128Mb of ram, 20 Gig hard drive running NT.
Motion_2001-03_ 03
Lee, Kaprielian 2nd
To spend $500 to purchase chess equipment for use by the scholastics program.
Passed: 6 – 0 –
1
Report Duration: 41 minutes 8:57 – 9:38
No Report
The fund has collected about $100 of donations
New information sent into Chess Horizons and posted on the web.
No Report
Some discussion about the mechanics of the upcoming election was discussed.
Motion_2001-03_ 04
Frymer, Messenger 2nd
That Maca provide $200 in expense money for Massachusetts Denker Tournament designee Jack Stolerman.
Passed: 7 – 0 –
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Motion_2001-03_ 05
Messenger, Gosselin 2nd
Move to Adjourn
Passed: 7 – 0 –
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