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March board meeting minutes

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)

  1. Scoring – Felix – overall going well.
  2. March race: 
    1. Vanonis scoring – timing chips & regular tags will be used for the March race.
    2. Vols – for the March race, Stephnie  – Unknown how many.  Stephanie will check & email Janet Gold
    3. Vol – one more jacket ordered – Deb
    4. Race Committee (Bob Basse, Heather Reddy, David Rothenburger, Dave Cook, Mike Quispe)
      1. TS:  Sept race will be at Platte River Trail Head 88th & Colorado. 
      2. MTS Dave Cunningham, Eric, Doug, Dave Cook
        1. Nothing new to report
        2. But, need to finalize costs, app so can post on Active.com
      3. 4th race w/ Solepepper sports?  Dave C contact Alan’s person
      4. Treasurer’s Report – Leslie.  Closing books.
    5. 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.
      1. Board voted to table this until 2011.  We’ve printed apps & schedules showing $5 for this year.
    6. Van
      1. Parking Rental space+parking –  Dave Cook  reported can park  at his apt complex for $15/month.
      2.  Likely do so after paint because avoid vandalism at Hops location.
      3. White paint job from Maaco after get van– Dave Cook
    7. 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. 
      1. Dave Cook look at storage facility rentals including parking
      2. Doug Smith talk to Matt at Bolder Boulder to see if they’re interested in purchasing our clocks.

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