MEETING NOTES;

President Greg Knop called the meeting to order.

Roll call of officers and directors was taken. Present were President Greg Knop, 1^St VP Patti McCoy, 2^nd VP Bryan Carsrud, 3^rd VP Terri Loneman, and Nevada VP Cheryl Devore. Directors present were Jerry Everett, Tim Kadolph, Deb Robinson, Randy Moore, Terri Carriere, Jo Mortvedt, Jane Hinman, and Lowell Crouse. Also present were Past President Keith Hawkins, Association Manager Teri Jennings and tournament committee member O.D. Green. Absent, but excused from the meeting were Ames VP Cari McPartland, director Katie Banks and youth committee members Aslynne Carriere and Kelly McPartland and Patti Beck. Unexcused absent from the meeting was Story City VP Jake Jacobson

Jane Hinman made the motion to approve the minutes of the last meeting as written. Randy Moore seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously

COMITTEE REPORTS

Membership Meeting Committee- Jane and Jo reminded everybody when and where the meeting was-March 10 at the American Legion in Story City. It was decided that we would give the committee $100.00 to purchase door prizes for the meeting. The committee will meet again on Tues March 4 @ 6:30 at Minsky’s in Nevada and finalize the plans for the meeting. We will be having spaghetti and meatballs. Burke is donating meatballs, Cheryl’s husband will donate bread and Lowell said he would donate desserts.

500/600/700 Club-Jo and Teri reported that they are having some of the women join these clubs and will continue to pass out the information regarding the clubs.

9-pin Tournament-We were reminded that the final 9-pin tournament of the season will be held at Sports Bowl in Nevada on March 8 & 9.

Association Tournament- Greg and Teri reported on the tournament committee. Teri passed around the tournament totals (since they didn’t get copied), see attached. It was decided to hold the Grand Prize drawing from this year’s tournament at the membership meeting. Cari had sent around a list of proposed changes for the tournament. Bryan made the motion to hold the tournament in Story City and Ames and to have Carousel Lanes host the singles and doubles events and 20^th Century to host the team event. Terri Loneman seconded the motion. MCU. Deb made the motion to eliminate the smoking shifts. Jo seconded the motion. 12 votes for the motion with Bryan voting nay. Motion carried. Lowell made the motion to hold the tournament the last 2 weekends in January and to have 3 shifts on Saturday and 2 shifts on Sunday. Proposed times were 11:00, 2:00 and 5:00 pending approval from the bowling centers. Jo seconded the motion. MCU. Jo made the motion that we ask the centers to keep open the 1^st weekend in February in case we need more shift times. Jane seconded the motion. MCU We have decided to drop the sign up sheet again and just keep the current schedules at the bowling centers and also on our website. We also determined that we only need 2 volunteers per shift at the doubles and singles events and 3 volunteers at the team event. We have decided that we need to try to get a sponsor next year for the Open Scratch All-Events. We have determined that since we are running next year’s tournament early, that all board members to get to the leagues and talk to people about the tournament and we need to get entry forms out even earlier. We discussed the trophies and the plaques for this year’s tournament and it was decided to go with what Cari and Teri had shown them.

OLD BUSINESS:

There was no old business to conduct.

NEW BUSINESS

Fund Raising Event Ideas: Greg told the board that we need to start thinking about and getting fund raising ideas for the next season. Jo talked about the “Bowling for Boobs” fundraiser she has going on and how the majority of the proceeds raised go to the Susan G. Koman foundation with the rest going to the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund.

Volunteers: Greg mentioned that we need to get everybody to help out and volunteer for various things the board is doing.

Jo made the motion to adjourn the meeting at 19:45. Everybody seconded the motion.

I would like to thank Greg for the wonderful breakfast he served us before the meeting.