RJC Board Meeting
November 9, 2005
11:30 AM

In Attendance:
Gerard Garra        President
Gary Dyer            Vice President
Dave Minedew    Treasurer/Secretary
Patti Wilder         Social Director
Harry Keast          Membership Chairperson

Meeting was called to Order 11:45 AM
Lunch was served.  Club paid for lunches, not drinks.

Discussed how to do this month's annual election.  Bi-laws say it must be by ballot.  Dave Minedew to type up ballot for the RJC's  Elections at the November monthly dinner meeting.

The board was asked who would like to run for another term so that their name could be put on the ballot.  Gerard wanted to run for Chief Judge, Gary said he would like to run for VP again, Patti said she would like to run for President, Dave said he would like to run for Treasurer again, Harry said he preferred not to run for Membership Chairperson but would take the job if voted in. There were two vacancy's: Secretary and Social Director.  Dave nominated Sunny Minedew for Secretary and Patti nominated Kathy and Mike Glass as Social Directors.

It was brought up on what is the best way to improve the RJC.  Having more tech sessions was decided.  Need members to host these sessions.  Gary Dyer offered the use of his Classic Car Storage Auto Shop.  Some members that we hope will host a session were suggested.  They were:  Bob Parschall, Ron Profitt, Gary Dyer, Mike Johnson, Charlie Manchester, Rich Wilder,Gerard Garra.

It was suggested that we alternate months by one month having the RJC Monthly dinner meeting and then the following month a tech session.  Patti brought up that the fact that the ladies in the club may not like this idea too much.  Suggested we have a dinner and a tech session one month and just a dinner the following month.

Patti brought up that the Social Director's job needed to be changed.  She suggested that 12 different members, one different member for every month, organize a dinner.  The Social Director would be in charge of overseeing these dinners and planning other events and sending out club correspondence.  Patti said she would compile a procedure list for "how to organize a RJC monthly dinner"

Dave gave a treasurers report.  Said the club had a balance of $3,977 in the operating account.  

Patti stated that this year the Christmas dinner would be a buffet due to the fact that last year some of the dinners were served cold.  Having a buffet would insure hot food.  She requested help on the menu selection for the Christmas dinner.  The menu was passed around and members voted to have 3 entrees and choose the 3 off the menu.

Dave suggested that the club buy two bottles of wine for each table at the Christmas dinner.  It was brought up that we had non-drinking members and this would not be fair to them.  It was then suggested that members donate wine to the dinner and pay a corkage fee per bottle.  Patti said she would look into the corkage fee*

Patti asked Gerard to be "Santa" at the Christmas dinner.  He said OK.

Patti stated that she bought a PA system for the club for a cost of $134.00, that was approved at the last board meeting.

12:45 Meeting adjourned

Minutes by Patti Wilder

*Update:
The corkage fee was $10.00/bottle.  It was decided that members would buy their own drinks at the Christmas dinner.