RABA BOARD MEETING - 8/25/07
 
PRESENT:  A. Barnard,  A. Booke,  J. Bridges,  L. Sanders,  S. Barocas,  W. Marsland,  L. Meacham,  M. Spence,  G. Ride,  M. Griffin
 
ABSENT:    L. Fox,  D. Folwell
 
GUEST:      Wally Marsland
 
The meeting was called to order by president Alex at 1:05 PM.  the meeting was held at the home of Alex and Sandy. 
 
The minutes of the July 18th RABA board meeting were amended as follows:
        Peg Clark and "Bull" Muse are candidates for the UNIT 112 board.
These minutes were then accepted with the above additions.
 
 
The RABA board election was discussed.
      The ballots will be available at the clubs within the week.  The ballots will be counted at the sectional on Sunday at LAKEVILLE.
       Annette, Jim Bridges, and Gerry volunteered to help count. Any other board member, not on the ballot, can also help.  The results will be announced on that day
       at Lakeville.
 
 
Annette and Sue gave a marketing task force report.
     There will be eight Saturday games at Potter (299er games) - 1 in September,  1 in October,  2 each in November, December, and January.
     There will be a noon game at ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH  on wednesdays starting in October.
 
 
The RABA fall sectional will bve held in LAKEVILLE on September 28, 29, and 30.  Fliers promoting the sectional will be at all our club games.  Jim Bridges will make
announcements at the games promoting the sectional. Anyone else can do the same if Jim is not at a particular game.
 
 
The goodwill player of the year election was held. Since these minutes will be made public before the actual election result is announced,  the  result will be in the next RABA board minutes.
 
Jim Bridges reported on the upcoming RABA events.  The open pairs will be October 7th, 2007.  The Swiss teams  will be 2/24/08.  Both events will be at the GREEN LANTERN. 
 
Jim Bridges suggested our unit(unit112) look into moving to DISTRICT 5.  Warren countered with "why not the Buffalo unit(unit116) move to our district?"
Since it is not a RABA decision, but a unit decision and possibly an ACBL decision, nothing was decided.
 
As a point of information, Lois reported the SYRACUSE regional had a profit of approximately $4000.  This profit goes to the district.
 
The next RABA board meeting will be at the GREEN LANTERN, October 7th, 2007 at 11AM(before our open pairs event.
The only agenda item will be the election of RABA board officers.
 
Warren move to adjourn - seconded by Jim Bridges - motion passed. The meeting was adjourned at 2:55 PM.
 
Respectfully submitted,
Gerry Ride, Secretary