Meeting held Monday, March 1, 2010.
- Next board meeting will be at Southglenn Library: Address 6972 S. Vine Street, Centennial, CO 80112-3168
2010 club goal: ( Runnin’Fun) (10 mins)
- Trivia starts at 7:00 P.M. Thursday March 18. We’ll run beforehand – at Cherry Creek trail @ Parker Road starts at 5:45 P.M.
- Kevin do eblast to announce.
- Other ideas – Bodyworks – Karen Szymanski will look at dates & group pricing.
- Movie night – Southglen library (Holly’s library). Run on the highline followed by running themed movie
- Goal = 1 activity every 2-3 months.
Marketing and PR (30 mins) – Dave
- PR Plan – Aurora
- March – 2 potential articles, Aurora working on articles to be published. Deb follow-up since Aurora ill – not at mtg.
- Update website – Alex, Kevin & Dave meet.
- WordPress software for updating the web site. Have not been able to rework home page to update look & feel.
- Kristen has little time to assist. Need new volunteer – potential for new member to step in. Dave Cunningham follow-up.
- Kevin – Has created a new RMRR flyer & is distributing to a lot of the running stores. Stores are happy to put up our poster.
- Facebook – Dave Cunningham. Jury is still out on how effective this will be.
- Races added to Active (David R) David has added 5 races for this year.
- Races added to The North Faces’s Planet Explore (http://www.planetexplore.com/run-3.2010) – Deb
- Mike Q will add to www.runcolo.com
- Joe Arrazola in Colorado running hall of fame? (submit app) Ric, Dave Cunningham edit. No update on this issue.
Membership (15 mins)
- Automate update of membership email distribution list – Doug. Process is very manual. Doug sends updates to Kevin and Eric. They each update separate databases.
- Program to contact new members & renewing members – Bob, getting about 2 to 5 new members per month. Ones he connects with are happy to hear from a real person. Dave Cunningham to help. Doug send Dave the list.
- List of lapsed members to race. Felix has posted the list of lapsed members on the b board the day of the TS race.
- AIR for 2010 – Karen reported that membership is down. Have a strong group in northern Colorado, but locally, Nick may be focusing more on at-risk teens. We’re not likely to get vols from AIR now.
Logistics (20 mins)
- Scoring – Felix – overall going well.
- March race:
- Vanonis scoring – timing chips & regular tags will be used for the March race.
- Vols – for the March race, Stephnie – Unknown how many. Stephanie will check & email Janet Gold
- Vol – one more jacket ordered – Deb
- Race Committee (Bob Basse, Heather Reddy, David Rothenburger, Dave Cook, Mike Quispe)
- TS: Sept race will be at Platte River Trail Head 88th & Colorado.
- MTS Dave Cunningham, Eric, Doug, Dave Cook
- Nothing new to report
- But, need to finalize costs, app so can post on Active.com
- 4th race w/ Solepepper sports? Dave C contact Alan’s person
- Treasurer’s Report – Leslie. Closing books.
- Discussed budget. We’re projected to lose money again this year. Possible solution = raise the race day fee. Masters charges $10 for race day. Still has 10-20 people.
- Board voted to table this until 2011. We’ve printed apps & schedules showing $5 for this year.
- Van
- Parking Rental space+parking – Dave Cook reported can park at his apt complex for $15/month.
- Likely do so after paint because avoid vandalism at Hops location.
- White paint job from Maaco after get van– Dave Cook
- New office space. Group decided to investigate purchasing a smaller timer that can fit in someone’s car. If have that, don’t need power at a storage facility.
- Dave Cook look at storage facility rentals including parking
- Doug Smith talk to Matt at Bolder Boulder to see if they’re interested in purchasing our clocks.