Meeting Minutes

Philadelphia Chapter ACBS Inc.

Chapter Meeting

May 13, 2008

 

 

Place:             President Joe Gartner opened the meeting at 7:10 pm at Villari’s, the Mill, Restaurant, in Palmyra, NJ which is our standard meeting place.  We meet on the second Tuesday of every other month at approximately 7:00 PM.

 

Attendees:     Joan & Dick Thomas, Al & Janet Mastales, Mike Kurland, Steve Ingraham, Elinor Miller, Bill & Wanda Carley, George Wohlgemuth, Nick Rosa, Bill Mullin, Tom Kenny, Brian Gagnon

                       

Individual Reports:

                        President: Joe Gartner

Joe greeted all present and thanked them for coming. The minutes from the March 11 meeting were distributed and a motion for approval as written was made by Brian Gagnon and seconded by Steve Ingraham.

He advised that the Chapter is still working on the 501C3 status and it is hoped that it will be concluded a little later in the year.

 

Vice President/Membership Chairman: Steve Ingraham. 

Steve reported that he had made calls to all of the non renewer’s for 2008.  A number of them indicated that they had” just forgotten”

and would take care of their membership although, per George Wohlgemuth, there has been no notifications coming from National

that any of the non renewer’s have yet renewed.  There were a few people that Steve could not get in touch with due to disconnected telephone numbers, inactive email addresses, etc.  Specific follow ups were offered by several members for a couple of the non renewer’s including Kerry & Nona Uhler (Bill Mullin) and Joe Gartner for correction of Dudley Lewis’s email. 

 

But the result of the non renewals will mean that for the next mailing the following people will be removed from the list:

James & Gale Eaton, Michael & Risa Ferman, Peter Hain, Frank & Susan Hujber, Kevin McCarthy, Steve Moser, Richard & Mary Read, Edward & Jackie Seugling, William Stevenson, Kerry & Nona Uhler, Ronald Wenger.  Note: Richard Yost was already removed based on Steve Ingraham’s comments that there was a personal matter preventing him from being involved with the club (and the National) this year.

 

A check written by Ron and Susan Vuyosevich was given to Steve Ingraham.  Apparently there was a misunderstanding concerning their renewal.  Steve will follow up.  For now, they will remain on the mailing list.

 

Steve Ingraham also suggested a placard for the restaurant designating Villari’s as our meeting place. He will pursue.

 

Treasurer: George Wohlgemuth

George reported the treasury balance was little changed since the last meeting. The balance currently is $6,468.67. This is prior to advertising income that should be coming in within a month from George Wohlgemuth’s two businesses as well as an ad (exact size to be determined by Joe Gartner) for Chad Brenner’s business.  A motion was made by Steve Ingraham and seconded by Dick Thomas to approve the Treasurer’s report.

 

Secretary’s/News Letter: Brian Gagnon

Brian reported on the sale of our printer to another organization and the rather substantial increase.  We will continue, at least for the current issue of The Nautical Mile which is (May 2008) with this printer with the possibility, if time permits, of shopping the printing out to others.  Most felt that The Nautical Mile was the single most important reason for our increase in membership.

 

Website:        Bill Carley and Tom Kenny. 

There have been no substantial changes to the website.  Bill was going to work with Joe Gartner/Dick Thomas to make sure that a downloadable registration form for the Tuckerton Show is included on the website.  Bill will also check to see if there is an ordering form for our clothing on the website (or another method to place orders).  Elinor Miller, in particular was interested.

 

Advertising    Mike Kurland

 Chair:           Mike reported on the ad renewals/new ads that we have had since

                     the last meeting. Specifically, Graves Plating and Hagerty   

                     Insurance have renewed while Southern Crown and Tuckerton

                     Propeller are two new advertisers.  There are a number of ads

                     that are on their last run in the May issue of The Nautical Mile.

                     Mike Kurland will be following up on them to encourage renewal.

                     

Old Business:

 

No report.

 

 

New Business: 

                       

The upcoming Tuckerton Boat Show was discussed. Joe Gartner  noted that the next meeting will be coming up on May 27th at 5pm at Tuckerton Seaport.  A number of people have expressed interest in attending including Steve Ingraham, Tom Kenny and Jack Raskin.  The theme this year will be “The Year of the Utility” and Joe asked for anyone who has pictures of theirs (in the water, operating), to send them in.  He has several so far but would like more.  It was reported the registration forms for the show will be sent out shortly after the 27th meeting.  A question was posed concerning what the cost will be for entry to the show this year and it was noted that fees will be “up slightly” and that the format will be similar to last year (Friday evening bar-b-que, Saturday dinner at the Seaport…at extra cost, Sunday awards, etc.  There has apparently been $900 set aside for the trophies which, with an expected 40 boat attendance, means trophy cost needs to be $22.50 each (which is less than last year). The practicality of this was questioned, given the increase in overall expenses. The comment was made we would apply to the Seaport if we “run short”.  The “save the date” cards have been mailed and most had received them by this meeting.  A mailing list for the Chesapeake Bay Chapter has been secured and we will be sending to them and they will be sending to us notice of our respective boat shows.

 

From the Spring quarterly meeting notes (from Friday April18th 2008 in Madisonville, Louisiana) several questions were posed.

The first had to do with mention of the “membership development” kits.  As far as Joe Gartner knows, these have not been completed as yet.  The membership development chair is Cheryll Schampier.

It is possible that Steve Ingraham, as membership chairman, will be contacting her.

 

The notes also mentioned that the Tuckerton Seaport Museum has become an associate member and that articles have been submitted to the Rudder magazine.  Apparently no one has actually seen the article, written by Tim Hart.  Dick Thomas will follow through to review it, make sure there is mention of the boat show and try and get it into a Rudder edition prior to the show in September. 

 

There was also some discussion concerning the ships store catalog which it was noted was mailed to the Chapters in December (no one recalls getting it) as well as a second catalog mailed in March

(an example of which was shown at the meeting).  It was agreed that the contents of the catalog, as well as the pricing, would be compared with what is on the ACBS website.  The results of that comparison was that not all of the items that are in the catalog are on the website (or vice versa) and that the catalog is apparently

intended for Chapter purchases of items at wholesale amounts that can then be “retailed” to club members for a higher price with a profit going into the club treasury.  Since the Philadelphia Chapter already has clothing to sell, it seems the interest in these items will be limited, at best.

 

                      The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 pm with a motion made by

                       Brian Gagnon and seconded by Tom Kenny.

                       

  BG/ept

 

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