Houston Happy Hikers

Here are the minutes from previous business meetings.

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+++++++ September 30, 2006    Business Meeting -- Lake Houston

President Catherine Kellner called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone.

OLD BUSINESS --

--- Officer/Committee Reports

-- Karen Cormier distributed and verbally summarized minutes from 2 prior meetings and they were accepted as presented.

-- Powers, Treasurer, reported that a CD was opened for $X.XX with HHH funds, leaving a balance of ~$X.XX in checking.

-- Ken Schubert, 1st VP sent report of the three upcoming walks to complete 2006.  October will be at Jack Brooks Park, November will be in Seabrook (Karen C. agreed to rewrite the map based on a new start point) and December will be at the Houston Arboretum with our annual Christmas luncheon and meeting, in addition to the walk.  Catherine indicated the same map could be used for the Arboretum walk & she is willing to help mark the walk.

-- Ken and Daralyn were successful in their attempts to donate some of HHH's no-longer-being-used supplies.

-- 2nd VP - no report.

-- Hospitality - Catherine indicated we need someone to organize the Christmas luncheon, be responsible for set up and clean up. Andy asked whether the Arboretum might handle some of the set up and clean up for a fee. Catherine will check with the Arboretum and if they will do this, as it was agreed to be a good idea.  Cindy Brahm will check about assisting with the planning of the luncheon.

-- Webmaster report - Andy reported our site is going well - no problems.  Andy expressed a desire to have a backup person to work on the website in case he is unable or out of pocket. 

-- Publicity - Delores sent a report indicating she had been successful in getting a HHH advertisement into several newspapers and some on-line venues. Daralyn will add a note in her e-mail walk notes that we are willing to speak at company functions if anyone has a need.  

-- Newsletter - no report, but good work! 

-- Membership - no special report. Kathie will be issuing the latest membership list in the near future.  There was a brief discussion about offering multiple-year memberships so the annual paperwork could be reduced but then additional effort would be required to maintain an accurate listing of each member and their various membership terms. 

-- Volunteer Committee - Wren - no report. 

-- YRE's: Daralyn reported the San Jacinto walk is going well and added that the facility is completely opened again, following renovations.  No new news regarding the downtown events or the Huntsville event.  Andy did indicate he has started sending thank you notes to participants of the downtown YRE's. 

-- Catherine was approached by Ross Kramer about the HHH taking over Galveston's YRE's. Friendswood came back and said that they wanted to continue to manage the Seawall YRE. HHH would, therefore, just manage the 'historical' YRE there and Debbie Doyle has agreed to take the lead in getting this organized, mapped and ready to go. 

NEW BUSINESS --  

-- Catherine stated we will need to vote at our December meeting on a delegate to attend the AVA convention and $$ that will be given to that delegate to defray their expenses.  It has been determined that Houston will not be hosting the TVA meeting; Dallas will. 

-- Catherine encouraged everyone to nominate themselves or anyone else for AVA awards. Many HHH's are deserving for their frequent service.  These nominations are needed by mid-October.

-- After much discussion about paying the various walk-start locations (making a donation) for use of their facility, a motion was made as follows: 

         -- The trailmaster(s) for a walk along with the president or another board member will have the authority to make a donation to facilities at walk start locations or other organizations of interest, not to exceed $300.  Motion was seconded and passed unanimously.

-- A discussion came up about whether we would order additional "volunteer" tee shirts to give to 'new' 2006 volunteers.  There were ~4 tees left from last year.  Daralyn will check and see how many 'new' volunteers we've had this year.

-- Club shirts were discussed as to color, style, etc.  Andy indicated his thoughts (as he has handled this for the club in the past).  Andy got opinions from almost everyone at the meeting and intends to begin placing some orders in the near future. 

-- Regarding the YRE books, The Starting Point, it was decided that HHH would order fewer to have in stock for next year and then order as requested if we run out. 

-- Catherine requested volunteers for the nominating committee.  Officers will be elected in December. A new First Vice-President will be needed.  Ken Schubert will no longer fill that position after December.  A Second Vice-President is also needed to replace Trish Drumm.  Other positions are still open and available...currently unfilled.

------  The list of 2007 walks was reviewed, as follows: 

January 2007 Galveston (Mary Wheat & Pat Powers, co-trail masters)

February 2007 Heights Area - Houston (Lynn Clark)

March 2007 Matagorda (John Brahm)

April 2007 Brenham - NEED volunteer

May 2007 Bolivar - NEED volunteer

June 2007 National Trails Day - NEED volunteer

October 2007 Schulenburg - NEED volunteer

November 2007 Seabrook - NEED volunteer

December 2007 Houston Arboretum - NEED volunteer

-- Pat Powers indicated he would be willing to lead the October Schulenberg walk. Linda Risinger indicated she would be willing to help with the April Brenham walk and Pat indicated he would help. Other trailmasters are needed. Please review the list and consider taking one on!  The motion was made and seconded to adjourn.

Karen Cormier -- Secretary / HHH -- Written 10/26/2006

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