June 27 2013 Board Meeting Minutes

Attendees:  David R, Bob Basse, Ken S, Dave C

No treasurer’s update

June Bible Park race

  • went well, tons of people.
  • Need to make sure RDs load the van with enough cones and tables – don’t assume last race left enough in the van.

July Stone House race

  • lots of intersections, so David and Scott will need to mark well.
  • David and Scott will take care of ice cream for post-race.

October Race – in Parker, Bob Basse and Eric Greene to direct

Volunteer of the Month – Dailey family for their work at the June race and the donation that Scott got us.

Marketing

  • ad turned in for Colo Runner
  • no other significant activity
  • BRC – need to understand what’s happening.  Check with Lene
    • note:  Lene says they’re waiting to see what changes come as well – nothing yet.

Scoring

  • bought RoadID bibs to use for scoring – more visible, won’t fall off
  • check whether labels will stick well – do we need to staple them on?

Fall MTS

  • will have 4 dates:  August 11, August 25, Sept 15, Sept 29
  • Dave C load into active and update the app
  • need to print app and take to shops

Track

  • good turnout – had 15 at last workout
  • want to connect with new running store – meeting in coming week

Future

  • Dave C concerned that we don’t have many new board members lined up.
  • General agreement, but no action plan
  • Dave will build list of prospective people and start asking.

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June 2013 Board Meeting Notes

Attended:  David R, Deb C, Ken S, Leslie, Dave C, Stephanie

Finance

Checking account balance is roughly the same as last year.  Membership is up, revenue from Space Age is flat.  Revenue up about $440.

One anomaly:  $140 check from South Suburban returned.  Bonnie – pls check with them to make sure we’re still lined up for the shelter.

Bolder Boulder – Deb and Keith J were age group winners.  Bonnie, Jay, Scott K, and Mike Q all were second in their age groups.  David R was 8th in his.  What an achievement!

May race at Stapleton

  • low on cones – lost one runner
  • no 5k turnaround – bad
  • need to have RDs make sure van has everything needed for the race.

Scoring – problems with people running near chute who weren’t in the race.  Resulted in a time on the chart that had to be deleted, and it took lots of work to narrow in on the are to resolve.  Need to help keep other runners out of the way.
Perhaps good to use bibs so we can more easily tell our runners from others?
>>Dave C look into free bibs, report back next month.  Road ID?  Race Ready?

Bible Park – Scott Newman RD.

Scott will get the food.  Deb will get kids prizes and the grill.  Have cooking volunteers lined up.

Spirit of the Marathon II movie

showing only on June 12 at these locations:

  • Pavilions 15   Denver  CO
  • Greenwood Plaza 12     Englewood       CO
  • Regal Riverpoint      Englewood       CO
  • Bel Mar 16 with XD     Lakewood        CO
  • Colorado Mills Stadium 16 with IMAX    Lakewood        CO

Dave C – send email to Eric and Jason asking them to send notes around to see where people would like to meet.

July TS

Stone House is expensive – $2 per person plus $fee plus $125 for shelter.
>>Would like to have Race Committee look for other locations, but David is pretty much the committee…need help.

Deb proposed having ice cream after the race.  1-2 big tubs of ice cream with toppings.
>> Deb will work on it.

Volunteer of Month

Need to crank this up a bit – we’ve let attention fade.

Selected Bryanne Sullivan for her work at Colfax.

>>  Dave C – buy several $25 gift certs from RR, and create new place for VOM on web.

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May 2013 RMRR Board Meeting Minutes

May Board Meeting – 29April 2013
Leslie, David, Bob, Janet, Deb, Dave 
 

Leslie – Finances

– revenue is up, checking accounts up, MTS $$ up – so doing ok.
– expenses are up with ribbon charge, but still doing fine.
YTD $3k ahead of last year.
 

April TS Race

We didn’t arrive at the gate early enough to meet City of Denver rules – need to show up at 5:30am.  City sent email to Janet about it.
Race went well, good attendance, lovely day.  Some scoring issues – do we need to consider improvements to our process?  For example, get a new pc and do scoring at the race?  No plan for now.

Spring MTS

60 at second race, around 40 at second.  No surprise – CC Sneak day after, Colorado Marathon next weekend, but Colfax is three weeks away.  Hard to pick better times.  
Note for RDs – don’t put things other than cash and checks in the cashbox.
 

May TS at Central Park

Mike Blanchard and Janet Fairs directing.  5k, 5M.  Muscle Milk attending.  8am Start, so make sure people know.  
lots of raffle stuff:  several race entries, RR gift certs
Check that Mike B has a key.
 
–>  Send notice of North Fork entry to club, DTR.
 

Volunteer of the Month

Scott Dailey.  Scott directed or helped with all spring MTS, always helps at TS.

 
Stephanie wanting to leave board – David will talk to her to understand her plan and to look for person to take volunteer role.  Ken S?
 

Signature Race

– discussed idea of signature race.  Like the idea, but people didn’t think we could be successful.  Requires too much work, too many volunteers.
– what if we instead had some series during the year:  5k series?  Summer series – June, July, August.  We have food at the June and August races; what if we added food for July.
 

Fall Marathon Training Series

move to FRCC?  RRS start?  Twin Lakes?  or somewhere else?  Janet will email Melody at Adams County to see if our dates are available.  Other thought – start at Trainhead park, then other turnaround.
 
November race – also needs to move.  Where can we do a good 9M race?  Idea of Cuernevaca Park – Fox and 29th.
 

Mailing List

MailChimp – go.  Eric will implement and we’ll try it for a while.  Eric try to engage Jacey to help.
–> Dave figure out what costs are past the free portion, notify board
Answer:  up to 2000 email addresses, up to 12k emails per month.  Roughly $0.03 per email if we ever exceed that, which would be unusual.
 

Marketing

– new sponsor page, will have new sponsor article on the home page
Send note to Leslie, Ken, Hilarie, Stacy and others – sending Facebook stuff to Jason W
–get Jason to tell people difference between page and group, which to use
–>  website:  need an easier way to find older races.  Dave C work on this.
 

Track

– had 19 people last week!
– pulling in people from neighborhood
 

Colfax

– May 19
– Dave C get people to staff the tent before and after
     –build list of things we’ll need
     –David and Mike will set up a tent
     –Leslie checked with Andrea – ok for bag drop for club
 

Boston

Masters team came in 7th overall!  Russell Stein, Tom Norris, David Rothenburger, Tim Gentry, and Bob Basse

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April 2013 Board Meeting

Dave, Deb, Adam, Bob, Ken, Hilarie, Eric, Leslie, Jacey
 Monday April 1, 2013 7pm
Whole Foods on Colorado Blvd

Treasurer’s Report

Leslie reviewed club accounts.  Have $1600 more now than about a year ago; subtract the new race ribbons from Crown, and we are about $700 to the good.
MTS – roughly even with last year
TS – rev up 1k.
Race permits – flat

Trophy Race  – March 

-Results – Trophy Race
-Comments about the race
nice weather, nicely run, Ken and Janet did a nice job again
Scoring – issues with 000 runners.  Need to have standard process for this and get people to use it.
Need signs for registration tables that explain clearly how to mark tags.
Dave C get website changed – somewhere it shows the next MTS race on SATURDAY (done – updated the app that people download)
Trophy Race – April 6, 2013  4 mile City Park 
Tim directing, Brian helping with walk-thru
– Volunteers –>need help
– Race course
– Other race issues
Volunteer of the Month -Janet Fairs for MTS and permits
Need to have the list handy so we know who’s gotten the award
Marathon Training Series
– Results – 52 finishers
– Numbers – 15-20 apps
a few no-shows, several signups on race day
Next on is Sunday April 14 – Scott, Eric and Peyton race directors
Last one is Sat April 27 – Steph and Brian –  race directors

RMRR Father’s Day Mile – City Park Thursday June 13, 2012

not going to do it – not enough interest and drive
Planning
Ad – want a bigger CR ad for Fathers Day?  No – no race!
Marketing – Dave C
idea of RR being our sole sponsor – reason to do this?
RRS – also want them to sponsor possible fall MTS
RR – ok’d the use of our mailing list for a one time mailing to the RMRR list to ask about joining RR list.  Dave will contact Ed to work out the details.
Facebook – pages and group confusing – need to get word out to community and explain.  Need to get Jason to send out email blast to explain
Need to have someone provide Jason with ideas – Ken and Adam L volunteered.  Idea is to send Jason lists every week or two

Track

will start Wed April 3, – North High 6:15pm.

Colfax Marathon – Tent

David will set this up?  Didn’t catch the details.

Team Fees

Policy – $10 per person for shirts if
– RMRR shirt
– RMRR in team name
– team composed of RMRR members
look for Bob’s old notes about this in old minutes.  Let Bonnie know that we’ve ok’d the $10 ea.
Kerry – won the RRCA Physically Challenged Runner of the Year.  Get Deb’s release and post on website.
–>> bring the apps and MTS entries to the race

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