Meetings 2nd Monday of odd months.
Zoom link will be here.
If you have trouble getting in please contact Keith Cooper. As many of you know, this link is provided by Melissa Spooner who’s working often travelling, so if we have trouble we’ll be sending out and posting google meet link.
Zoom opens up at 7.
Pool Sessions Mark Voorhees.
Approve last meetings minutes.
Finance Frank Chiocco
Present balance sheet and revised budget
Membership Keith Cooper
Guests- What to do if they don’t want to pay.
Tom Hart is proposing simplifying membership. Stay with $50 year for adults,$25 year for youth/limited income. MOTION NEEDED.
Activities Peter Nolan
Getting more trips on schedule.
Do we want to allow members to be able to post trips and have them active immediately?
Suzanne V. has volunteered to cook for May 7 Mongaup. Needed – coordinate Delaware trip. Help coordinating setup (finding volunteers, etc.)
Demofest camping at Savoy with AMC.
Publicity/ Publications Melissa Spooner working in Italy right now unable to attend.
Google address will do pool in fall. Anyone before then?
Mailchimp dropping number of free contacts to 500. Over 500 will cost about $27/mo. We have about 500 active users.
Tom is admin for the Hudson River any Beyond Meetup (2k+members, $70 for 6 months). KCCNY meetup has been folded.
Safety Sean Kraft.
Training/ Instruction Jesse Koproski – AMC doing a beginner weekend mid June. Volunteers wanted for safety on Sunday Delaware trip.
Conservation Keith Cooper (Anyone interested-has evolved more into an advocacy roll but doesn’t have to be).
Mongaup relicensing has been submitted to FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) but we won’t get our 30 releases until/unless it’s officially approved. Likely will get approved this year so likely 30 releases next year. (No idea if we’ll get more this year).
Significant work to be done on Adirondack releases, Esopus.
Equipment
Christopher Dubetsky.
Keith to show contract for both loaning and borrowing equipment.
Club to Member agreement:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GA8zQbCQy1S3W56puLzdwVRK4aF907qtClHqaFw67x4/edit?usp=sharing
Member to Club agreement:
Chris has been complaining about not getting equipment back. We could take deposits but we can’t charge rentals.
Some boats to Frank’s Bergenfield storage location (east of Garfield).
Should we purchase a raft or just use Sean’s and see how it goes?
Website Tom Hart
River Release schedule.
Moving old minutes(how’s that going Sean?)
Help needed. Really.
Posting / approving trips.
Official adjournment but we can keep the zoom open for a little while.