Meeting Minutes January ‘08
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

The meeting was called to order at 7:01 p.m. by President Curt Smith at Chowders restaurant in Melbourne. 17 members were present..
GUEST SPEAKER: none
OLD BUSINESS: none
NEW BUSINESS : 1. The nominations/elections was not very exciting. No new nomies, all members present sentenced, I mean , suggested the current officers continue for one more year. The motion, and vote carried as mentioned. 2. New meeting time was discussed and we all decided to try 6:30 meeting start, show up before if you want to socialize or eat before the meeting. 3. we discussed having the candleighters more involved in our next river rally and we all agreed to send them a check for $ 200 this year a motion was made, seconded and carried to make that donation in honor of Curt’s granddaughter who is currently fighting and beating her cancer. 4. It was suggested that we as riders need to take more pictures of each ride or activity and we need to submit more often to get and keep the website updated.
PRESIDENT REPORT: Curt reported how wonderful candleighters has been to both his granddaughter and all of the children and families they help. He got a little choked up but our own and wonderful Sharon Horseman jumped in as needed to speak for our pres. He is a great guy but not as tough as his granddaughter, Julia. Curt also thanked the Horsemans for offering the use of their home for our Christmas/new years party and reported that fun was had by all.
V.P. REPORT: .John W. discussed the upcoming rides, spoke of making our annual river rally bigger and better, talked about mixed reviews from a discovery river tour customer and took suggestions from some members for cypress lake chain, canal sightseeing and other ideas.
TREASURER REPORT: John K. was present and circulated the latest t-report, dues are slowly rolling in, he collected some at the meeting and assured all that we are doing good enough to continue but not good enough to buy the house drinks.
EVENT COORDINATOR: John W. Reminded all that a club cleanup would be held the following Saturday at 8:30 am at pineda park. We sort of missed the first saturday due to the holidays.
WEBMASTER: Curt reiterated that the website is still very actively visited daily.
SECRETARY REPORT: Since I had no minutes to read due to my absence at the last meeting I tried to cover by explaining that I had been working out of town a lot with little to no notice. Our sergeant at arms Tim Moberly joked that I must have been on strike with the rest of the Hollywood writers, and since that was better than what I came up with, I went with it.
I did try to save face by reporting on the write ups on the new Yamaha sho fx supercharged machine hitting the market that is getting such high reviews and I also gave a summary of John Moffit’s world record setting journeys on a PWC of 5000 plus miles and 11000 plus miles with no chase boats or crew. This info all came from the current watercraft world magazine.
Member spotlight: None
50/50 drawing: Eddie’s son Lorenzo sold $28 worth of 50/50 tichets and Karen Fleckinger got lucky, I mean won the drawing. She became $14 richer and could hardly contain herself. My luck was slowly making a comeback, bringing me the good fortune of claiming the win of 2 copies of ride magazine from the AWA. A new jet ski would have been a more exciting prize but you can’t have it all.
ADJOURNMENT: Meeting was adjourned at 8:06pm. Another one is in the books.
Tom Wilson, secretary