TTT Board
Meeting 11/14/09
Meeting is called to order at 9:20am
BOD Attendance
Present: James Anderson, Buddy Cutts,
Ollie Gregory, Steve Lee, Mark Poling, Lucas Ridley, Dan Shell,
Clark Harlow, Barry Klein, Michael Bradford, Jeff Wilson
Absent: Keith Atkins, Jeff Dodgen,
Eric Donaldson, Ricker Goldsborough, Kathy Lee, Mike Nash, Jeff
Nibler
Automatic resignations declined: Jeff
Dodgen, Kathy Lee, Mike Nash, Keith Atkins
James A. first and Buddy seconds accept
Lucas reading of last month's meetings
Old Business:
WW LZ search: Dan Shell reports no
new news from the real estate agent. Ollie says Ricker is
interested in helping out with this process.
Bill Priday Lawsuit: Dan reports no
new news. Ollie mentions that there might be some changes coming
at how USHPA considers insuring competitions and isn't sure what
this means for TC in the future.
BOD Ballots: Mark Poling took that
on, who was absent last meeting, and Ollie teamed up with him
and Jackie Gregory helped out. Thanks for your all's work.
Glider Storage: Mike Nash is absent,
and Ollie nominates Jeff Wilson to take on this cause. There
aren't enough members for a vote on whether we want to purchase
this. Dan recommends also having one in the LZ, since the
original purpose of this discussion was about the security of
the LZ. Jeff W. is going to investigate this and report on it:
prices, etc.
New Business:
Favorite Neighbor Gifts: Ms. Hudson
of Whitwell and Mr. Castle – soap basket from Ollie and Jackie
and Clark H. and Dan Shell will deliver. $100 donation to the
Whitwell Church that Clark and Dan can deliver. Galloways –
Michael Bradford will deliver a gift basket that Jackie G. will
make for his employees. Standifers – Mark Poling will take care
of that one and donate a Riverside Cycle gift card. Bashams of
Whitwell launch – Dan and Clark deliver a ham and a turkey. See
Ricker or Steve for the money and the gifts will be distributed
at the Xmas party meeting.
DSL: Buddy will propagate the signal
and donates that. 6 people have donated $50 each ( Jeff Nibler,
Ollie Gregory, Michael Bradford, Buddy Cutts, James Anderson and
Dan Shell) and it costs about $80 a month. Fred Day and Lucas
Ridley donate another $50 each. That's a total of $400 donated
towards this effort. Ollie moves and Lucas seconds, and is
unanimously voted that Michael Bradford head this up. There was
discussion of setting up a Paypal payment to allow people to use
the signal.
Tandem Pilot Approval: Ron Knight
and Ozzie Lopez are still not approved for tandems. It was a
question of whether or not Ozzie was a TTT member when he flew
recently. Ollie presented a form that Jeff Nibler created for
approving tandem pilots.
Committee Reports:
Social: Mark Poling – Saturday
December 12th 5pm central at Johnson's BBQ. There was
a question about Rob who helped out with a keg and the club was
to return the keg and send him his deposit back. Mark got a
certified check that didn't go through, he is going to look into
that and find out where that $100 is, meanwhile Steve is just
going to send Rob a check to get that cleared up, sorry Rob
there was confusion. Mark says a big thanks to everyone who
helped out with the TC party. Everyone wanted to know the exact
amount donated during the TC party, Ricker should have that
information, but no one knows the amount yet.
Treasurer: Tandem money is on the
way to Ricker, Steve has paid for the mowing and the feral gas
bill so all bills are paid. James A. brings up that we need to
reimburse our Rick Jacob for firewood from TC. The checking
account hasn't been balanced for October, it is $9,074 and the
TTT CD fund $53,653.79. Steve Lee is going to get two cords of
word and reimburse Rick with one and stock Henson's with the
other, it's approved by everyone here. Clark filed the 2008
taxes.
Maintenance: DSL – Michael Bradford
looking into it. Jeff Wilson, committee chair is looking into:
glider storage, fix hand rail and porch at clubhouse. Clark
makes a point that we should improve the defense of the
clubhouse against mice, and have a strategy of trying to keep
them out instead of killing them once they're in and before we
get a new stove and refrigerator. Fixing the handrail and the
porch of the clubhouse is the main priority. There was a lot of
discussion on taking down the entire top porch, reflash that
side of the clubhouse and discover and repair the known damages
to that wall of the clubhouse because of the rain that leaks in,
pouring a concrete front porch, and building the new top porch
on top of that. A BBQ grill was discussed. Replacing the
refrigerator was discussed to replace with a self-defrosting
refrigerator, Ollie's going to send Mark Poling and email to see
if he'll look into it. Ollie suggests replacing the stove with a
cook-top to set on a table-top, and a separate oven to attach
beneath cabinets that were also discussed about building
cabinets. We also need new pallets to stand on for the shower
that are rotted and the picnic tables are also needing
replacing. Jeff W. will get a new security storage container to
put over at Whitwell.
Membership: Jeff N isn't here, but
reported that we mailed 165 ballots out. And Jeff made an
automated reminder
Awards: Trevor Childress has the
topless flight of the year at 33.2 from Whitwell. Steve Lee has
the rigid class, and there's some confusion about the
king-posted record, last meetings minutes reflect a flight from
last year not this year.
Bylaws: Mike Nash is absent
Safety: Kathy Lee was absent. Ollie
mentions including ropes and harnesses in the Whitwell security
box for the wire crews
Website: Buddy Cutts reports that
the website is working well. Ollie suggests adding a place for
photos and videos since that's where any new visitors will go
first. Lucas will email Buddy about putting some videos up
there.
Competition: Ollie brings up the
idea of the once a month competition that would start next year.
The idea is to encourage a monthly fly-in kind of atmosphere and
keep score throughout the year.
Ollie mentions a SW site that we should
investigate near the end of the valley.
Lucas first and Jeff W seconds to adjorn at
12:11 central
