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Twin Cities Blind Audio Dart League membership meeting August 22, 2023 President Phil Sporer called the meeting to order at 7:17 PM. In attendance were president Phil Sporer, vice-president Ellen Harrity, treasurer Kellie Bangsund, Secretary Janet Dickelman, board members Colleen Kitagawa, Gary Boettcher, and April Collins, webmaster Lisa Sanders, members Chris and Kelly Peterson, Kelly Harrison, Antonio Guimaraes, Al Kitagawa, Mike Vining, Jordan Strom, Loice Bunei Phil acknowledged the passing of dart sub Jen's guide dog. The minutes were read from the April 11th membership meeting, corrections were made. Vice President's report: Ellen has been in contact with Jasmin Sam will get our new boards by the end of this month or in September. Treasurer's report: account balance $4,638.88 a payment of $34.99 was made for website renewal the board fund has $1,581.38 the tournament fund $1,256.95 the scholarship fund has $509.50 dues need to be sent in by the 10th of following month; they can be paid by venmo or checks can be mailed to Kelli's home address. Kellie will no longer keep an inventory of darts supplies since most people purchase their own, if you need something check with Kellie to see if she has it in her inventory but she won't restock supplies. Captain's rep report: (given by Phil on behalf of Catalina) Catalina is putting together the 2023/2024 schedule. The season will begin on September 12th at 6:30 PM. She still needs contact information for some teams. If you want print or braille schedules please let her know. Score sheets, sub lists, and team rosters will be in the folders in the cabinets. Outreach A demonstration was done for summer transition youth at St Thomas by Shaun, Riley, Jordan Lauren and Phil. They discussed how the league functions, gave a brief history and did a demonstration. The kids had fun and the league was invited back for next year. Phil also spoke about the league at the ACB mo Minnesota April quarterly membership meeting. We discussed having a demo at an ACBM social event. Tournament: day tournament not enough time February watch for an email with potential tournament dates by Thanksgiving. Darts Venues: Phil checked with McCoy's: they require a deposit each week so that wouldn't work for us. Tiffany's located at 2250 Ford Parkway in St Paul has a back area for us to use, Phil will move a board from Eagles to Tiffany's. Parking is to the east of Half-price Books. A motion was made by Mike V. and seconded by Antonio, to approve all reports, the motion carried. Cabinets: We need to replace the cabinets Al Kitagawa's brother picked them up for us in Bemidji Kelly will check with Annie to see if she remembers who made them. Phil knows someone who might be able to make them, Antonio suggested we check with Peter's Billiards. Phil will check with them Antonio also talked about working with students from his college (New York University) to design a new comparable dart board, find a board to adapt or create a board by designing an interface, obtain feedback, connect with manufacturers and develop boards for our league or to market. Kelli B. has a board at home we can swap with the VFW board, Therese may have a league board we can also use, Janet is checking with her. Bylaws: At the August 14th vice-president's bylaws meeting the below changes were discussed. Treasurer: remove item D. regarding the treasurer selling darts supplies. A motion was made by Antonio seconded by Gary to update the bylaws with this change, the motion was approved. Change item K. to reflect the treasurer's stipend changed from $500 to $250.00. A motion was made by Antonio seconded by Kelly H. to update the bylaws with this change, the motion was approved. Captain's rep (should be corrected to statistician): Change item d. to Send the treasurer a listing of players eligible for prizes or special awards. A motion was made by Antonio and seconded by Colleen to update the bylaws with this change, the motion was approved. Add in item E. that the captain's rep (should be corrected to statistician) will receive a yearly stipend of $250.00. A motion was made by Colleen and seconded by Gary to update the bylaws with this change, the motion was approved. Rules of play: If the change player button is not pressed by a player, any darts that are verified to have scored will be transferred to the appropriate player. Open Discussion: A discussion was held as to how the league should select venues, after individual votes it was decided that venues would be selected from first place to last in odd years, and last to first in even years. A motion was made by Kelly H. and seconded by Ellen to update the rules of play with this information. Contacting league president: Phil stated he will respond to voicemail and texts after 1:00 PM and to emails the next business day. A motion was made by Kelly H. and seconded by Gary to adjourn the meeting, the motion carried and the meeting was adjourned at 8:28. Respectfully Submitted by Janet Dickelman, Secretary, Twin Cities Blind Audio Dart League With minor corrections in spelling and punctuation by Lisa Sanders, webmaster Click here to go back to the minutes pageClick here to go back to the index page |