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FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes Nov 9 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

November 9, 2016

eDDIES hOUSE: 17016 nw 22 sTREET, pEMBROKE pINES, fl 33028

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:38pm

Attendees: Allen Strachan, Gayle Velazquez, Eddie Soler, Eddie Steinman, Renee Steinman, Lulio Vasquez, Julio Perez

Review of October, 2016 BOD meeting Minutes: Allen approves, Eddie Soler seconds

Review of October, 2016 Treasurers Report Minutes: Allen approves, Eddie Soler seconds

Florida Resale Certificate – We need to get it to the wholesalers. Eddie Soler took one to Andrea’s. Eddie Steinman needs a copy to take to All Seas.

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS

October 25^th	Mark Callahan – at SPHS Eddie Soler will get the Apex Auto feeder Eddie Steinman got the Eheim Digital Auto Feeder. Mark is staying with Dave.	Eddie Seaquarium trip since it was cancelled due to the weather, Possibly October or Nov.
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15^th SPS expert – WE NEED A COMPUTER FOR HIM!!!! Eddie Soler will bring the FMAS laptop to the meeting for Mike	Tank Hop – November 5^th? November 12^th? Nov 5^th it is Lulio is ON Julio Basanta- is ON Ixsander- Is ON Ty- ????? Richard (friend of Julio B, and Ixsander)- Is ON
December 3^rd is better. If not, then 10^th	Holiday Party
January	Eddie Soler is working on finding a speaker for January: Maybe Julian Sprung? Or Rogger?
February	Kevin Cohen – Eddie Soler will reach out to him to confirm

RAFFLE Volunteer needed for 2017

Membership:

Lourdes will work with Alan to design the new 2017 membership cards.

Lourdes is going to make a design this weekend and send it out to the BOD for approval.

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Elections committee:

UPDATE- Julio and Allen will be the elections committee from the BoD. Julio and Allen need to talk with Johnny.

Gayle will look into a more central location for future board meetings.

Tank Hop: Tank Hop was excellent – the fish tanks were jaw-dropping. About 23-25 people

Aquarimania Committee Report:

We’ve decided to cancel Aquarimania. UPDATE: they will be refunding our money, but they had our PO box address wrong.

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	$352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April	No big item / Achilles tang	$254	$231	$20
May	4 channel Jebeo doser (DP-4)	$120	$240	$60
June	No big item	$200	$290	$10
July	No meeting – picnic	No raffle	No raffle	No raffle
August	No raffle – all proceeds donated for school. One big raffle all went to one person	No raffle	No raffle	No raffle
September	DP-4 – Jebao Auto Dosing Pump	Did not get raffled.	No raffle	No raffle
October	Apex Auto Feeder & DP-4 – Jebao Auto Dosing Pump	$100 for Apex + $60 for DP4	$316	$20
November	Eheim Auto Feeder
December

OPEN DISCUSSION:

We need to find a place for the holiday party. Eddie Soler has been trying to reach the woman who is the new contact for the Davie’s womens club, but she has not been answering or returning his calls.

Lulio will ask about his church
Renee will call a bunch of places this week

Dave is dealing with a lot of issues with the school. The guy who was supposed to be building the stand for the tank is not responding. Also, Cary needs to buy about 15 LED lights for the school.

Meeting Adjourned: 8:55pm

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FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes Oct 11 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

October 11, 2016

eDDIES hOUSE: 17016 nw 22 sTREET, pEMBROKE pINES, fl 33028

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:35pm

Attendees: Allen Strachan, Gayle Velazquez, Eddie Soler, Julio Perez, Lulio Vasquez, Dave Thompson

Review of September, 2016 BOD meeting Minutes: Eddie approves, Allen seconds

Review of September, 2016 Treasurers Report Minutes: Julio approves, Allen seconds

Florida Resale Certificate – We need to get it to the wholesalers. Eddie will get one to Andrea’s.

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
Saturday September 24^th at 10AM	Sanyai Yoshi: September 24^th, confirmed. At Nova. – Redundancies for safety. Changed to Experiences with a 400G tank over the past 10 years. The Good and the Bad	September 27 – 7pm at Miami Seaquarium
October 25^th	Mark Callahan – at SPHS Eddie Soler will get the Apex Auto feeder Eddie Steinman got the Eheim Digital Auto Feeder. Mark is staying with Dave.	Eddie Seaquarium trip since it was cancelled due to the weather, Possibly October or Nov.
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15^th SPS expert –	Tank Hop – November 5^th? November 12^th? Nov 5^th it is Lulio is ON Julio Basanta- is ON Ixsander- Is ON Ty- ????? Richard (friend of Julio B, and Ixsander)- Is ON Dave is handling
December 3^rd is better. If not, then 10^th	Holiday Party
January	Skip meeting for show
February	Kevin Cohen – Eddie Soler will reach out to him to confirm

RAFFLE Volunteer needed for 2017

Membership:

Lourdes will work with Alan to design the new 2017 membership cards.

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Elections committee:

Julio and Allen will be the elections committee from the BoD. We need to get one person from the general membership, maybe either Johnny or Felix.

Tank Hop: 10am – 3pm

Participants: Lulio, Julio Basanta, Ixsander, Richard

Pizza or subway for lunch

People pay $5 and they have to sign up online

Possibly park at Tropical Park? Eddie will drive by there tomorrow.

Gayle and Dave will coordinate to reserve the bus

Aquarimania Committee Report:

We need to have 50 booths by November 1. Next payment is due November 17^th

Eddie and Julio haven’t been making as much headway as they thought. Even if everyone that has committed pays us, we only have 25-30 booth, which is too few; this would only use half the space so it would look empty.

We’ve decided to cancel Aquarimania.

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	$352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April	No big item / Achilles tang	$254	$231	$20
May	4 channel Jebeo doser (DP-4)	$120	$240	$60
June	No big item	$200	$290	$10
July	No meeting – picnic	–	–	–
August	No raffle – all proceeds donated for school. One big raffle all went to one person	–	–	–
September	DP-4 – Jebao Auto Dosing Pump	Did not get raffled.
October	Eheim Auto Feeder & Apex Auto Feeder
November	DP-4 – Jebao Auto Dosing Pump
December

OPEN DISCUSSION: Got Corals wanted to know if we were interested in helping with a fundraiser down south. BoD decided it’s too far south and no bandwidth to take it on.

Dave is dealing with a lot of issues with the school. The guy who was supposed to be building the stand for the tank is not responding. Also, Cary needs to buy about 15 LED lights for the school.

Meeting Adjourned: 9:00PM

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FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes Oct 13 2015

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

October 13, 2015

SPORTS GRILL RESTAURANT: 220 NW 180^TH AVENUE, PEMBROKE PINES, FL 33029

Meeting called to order: 7:54 PM

Meeting Attendees: Renee Steinman, Eddie Steinman, Lulio Vasquez, Eddie Soler, Lourdes Vasquez, Allen Strachan, Gayle Velazquez, Dave Thompson, Bobby (by phone for 15 minutes)

APPROVAL OF MAY MINUTES – Approved by Eddie Steinman, seconded by Gayle

APPROVAL OF LAST CONFERENCE CALL MINUTES – Gayle will send out again, minutes will be approved at the next meeting

MEMBERSHIP – Membership has been great – no issues – about 165 members

Lourdes will verify that the card printer software has the ability to print barcodes
Lourdes will find out what it might take to get barcode readers to be able to track who is coming to meetings
We will start doing a sign-in sheet at each meeting – just a piece of paper / excel sheet with a name and zip code

SPEAKERS

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
Oct 27	Craig Bingman – Aquarium Chemistry – confirmed	FFMAS Show? No
Nov	Collin Ford	gPoker run – Miami stores – Bird Road Stores? Exotic , Oceanview, ReefBox, Aquariumart, ReefTop, House of Fins, VIP, Strictly Fish. Charter a bus.
Dec 5^th or the 12^th.	Matt reached out to Volunteer Park and will meet with them next week, they have 2 big banquet rooms. On Sunrise across from best buy. Eddie Steinman motions for a $600 budget for the room, Bobby seconds. Motion passes.	Holiday Party (Location?)

BOD MEMBER APPOINTMENTS: Lulio Vasquez, Allen Strachan – Approved by Lourdes, Eddie Soler, Eddie Steinman, Renee Steinman, Gayle, and Bobby (by phone)

NOMINATING COMMITTEE: Elections are in November. Bobby should chair it. 2 BOD members, 1 non-BOD member.

HOLIDAY PARTY:

Lourdes will email the BOD by the end of the week with info about having the holiday party at her club house.
Renee will call Dave and Busters to find out about having a holiday party there
Eddie Soler will talk to Matt Tindall to find out about having the party at the Davie Womens Club

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER EVENT (SHOW)

EVENTS (FIELD TRIPS) – November Poker run – Bobby votes no bus – everyone should drive, but we should encourage carpooling

Eddie Soler will get 5 stores (Exotic , Oceanview, ReefBox, Aquariumart, ReefTop*, House of Fins, VIP, Strictly Fish), everyone will drive themselves
November 21^st

SCHOOL PROJECTS – Dr Thompson did an excellent job with iMater

Eddie Soler suggests BOD pay up to $125 for water change for the school from Charlie
Renee Steinman seconds
Dave will work it out with Charlie, in case Charlie needs to bill the club vs Dave needs to give him a check

CONTESTS – started chalice grow contest with about 10 people, only about 3 people left. Eddie Soler and Dave will decide the winners. Winner gets all entrance fees (about $200 in gift cards to a store possibly?)

WEB SITE:

IDEA: PAR METER? Rent it out to our members as a service, get a deposit, in case they lose it, break it, etc. deposit gets returned if member returns par meter.

Voted no because it could be broken and liability issues

OPEN DISCUSSION:

Renee says no Saturday meetings – we should keep meetings on the first Tuesdays
We should have meetings every month – 7:30 – 9
- Everyone approves the meetings, no one opposed.
November 3^rd meeting at Dave Thompson’s house – show up at 7. Eat until 7:30. Finish eating at 7:30. Meeting ends at 9PM and he will start kicking people out. Renee will order the food and pick it up on the way to Dave’s house.
Gayle will add Lulio and Allen to the BOD email

Meeting adjourned at 9:38 PM

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FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes Sept 13 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

September 13, 2016

eDDIES hOUSE: 17016 nw 22 sTREET, pEMBROKE pINES, fl 33028

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:40PM

Attendees: Allen Strachan, Eddie Soler, Gayle Velazquez, Julio Perez, Eddie Steinman, Renee Steinman, Dave Thompson

Review of July (no August meeting), 2016 BOD meeting Minutes: Allen approves, Eddie Steinman seconds

Review of July, 2016 Treasurers Report Minutes: Allen approves, Eddie Steinman seconds

Florida Resale Certificate – we’ve received this already.

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
June 28th	Meeting at Nova University – confirmed. Mark Esquinazi: Feeding Corals
July 30	No speaker – no meeting.	July 30 picnic at Oleta – $133.45 to rent the pavilion near the beach, they have a grill. Eddie Steinman went over there and paid the deposit. 11AM – 3PM, Club will provide burgers, dogs, buns, drinks, silverware, plates. Members can bring sides. Must be a member. Eddie will get find out what pavilion from Eddie Steinman. Gayle and Dave will coordinate to bring everything
August 23^rd	Charlie Gregory – Dave Thompson confirmed the date with Cary – fish diseases	Turtle Release – Gayle will contact Nova to schedule this
Saturday September 24^th at 10AM	Sanyai Yoshi: September 24^th, confirmed. At Nova. – Redundancies for safety. Changed to Experiences with a 400G tank over the past 10 years. The Good and the Bad	September 27 – 7pm at Miami Seaquarium
October 25^th	Mark Callahan – at SPHS Eddie Soler will get the Apex Auto feeder Eddie Steinman will get the Eheim Digital Auto Feeder
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15^th SPS expert –	Tank Hop – November 5^th? November 12^th? Nov 5^th it is Lulio is ON Talk to DannyDJD from ReefCentral (My 1300 gallon addiction: A Miami reef build story.) Talk to wanderlest from ReefCentral (Cousin of the 1300 gallon addiction: The Miami Kitchen Build) Dave will start organizing this to get tanks to visit
December 3^rd is better. If not, then 10^th	Holiday Party
January	Skip meeting for show
February	Kevin Cohen – Eddie Soler will reach out to him to confirm

RAFFLE Volunteer needed for 2017

Membership: Not much new for membership. We should grandfather people in September for membership for the next year. (Since there was only 2 people so far this month)

Lourdes will work with Alan to design the new 2017 membership cards.

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Tank Hop: Lulio will show off his tank.Julio Basanta will show off his tank, and his friend (Itsander). Ti also. Richard might also be able to show his tank. We have enough tanks.

August picnic was good, but it was hot. Next picnic should be in the spring – Maybe April

Aquarimania Committee Report: lots of interest for the show, but no real commitments

Charlie Gregory agreed that he would do a touch tank.

Marco Rocks suggested doing an aquascaping contest

Show costs $10k to rent + $5k in rooms – booths are $200 each. We need about 75 booths to break even. We are currently at 28 booths.

We need to have 50 booths by November 1. Next payment is due November 17^th

NY RAP, and MACNA 2016, San Diego

Sunshine: Renee sent out a card to Dave Anderson – his son died

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	$352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April	No big item / Achilles tang	$254	$231	$20
May	4 channel Jebeo doser (DP-4)	$120	$240	$60
June	No big item	$200	$290	$10
July	No meeting – picnic	–	–	–
August	No raffle – all proceeds donated for school. One big raffle all went to one person	–	–	–
September	DP-4 – Jebao Auto Dosing Pump
October	Eheim Auto Feeder & Apex Auto Feeder
November
December

OPEN DISCUSSION:

Meeting Adjourned: 9:04PM

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FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes Dec 6 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

December 6, 2016

eDDIES hOUSE: 17016 nw 22 sTREET, pEMBROKE pINES, fl 33028

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:49PM

Attendees: Allen Strachan, Gayle Velazquez, Eddie Soler, Lulio Vasquez, Julio Perez, Richard Bhagwandat, Julio Basanta

Review of November, 2016 BOD meeting Minutes: Lulio approves the minutes, Eddie Soler seconds

Review of November, 2016 Treasurers Report Minutes: Lulio approves the minutes, Eddie Soler seconds

Holiday Party?

Gayle will follow up on who is bringing what food

Eddie will send out a short email reminding everyone of the party this weekend.

Location: South Plantation High School

Setup for the party is at 5

Dave will bring some t-shirts to the holiday party for the raffle.

Julio will bring his speaker.

Gayle will bring paper plates / cups / Xmas decorations / sodas / waters

Dave will bring sternos and chafing dishes

Julio will go to All Seas to get items for the raffle. He will take a club check. $200 budget

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15^th SPS expert – WE NEED A COMPUTER FOR HIM!!!! Eddie Soler will bring the FMAS laptop to the meeting for Mike	Tank Hop – November 5^th? November 12^th? Nov 5^th it is Lulio is ON Julio Basanta- is ON Ixsander- Is ON Ty- ????? Richard (friend of Julio B, and Ixsander)- Is ON
December 3^rd is better. If not, then 10^th	Holiday Party
January	Eddie Soler is going to reach out to Richard Ross and Colin Ford and Kevin Cohen
February	Kevin Cohen – Eddie Soler will reach out to him to confirm

Dave would like a list of qualified speakers with contact information.

MIAMI Members proposal for more Dade County involvement:

Richard and Julio

Saturday event in Miami? Something sponsored by a store

Gayle to make sure FB link is on WebPage

FMAS stickers for stores that support us

RAFFLE Volunteer needed for 2017

Membership:

Lourdes will work with Alan to design the new 2017 membership cards.

Lourdes is going to make a design this weekend and send it out to the BOD for approval.

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Elections committee:

Elections are done. New BOD- President- Dave Thompson, Vice- President- Gayle Velazquez.

Gayle will look into a more central location for future board meetings.

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	$352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April	No big item / Achilles tang	$254	$231	$20
May	4 channel Jebeo doser (DP-4)	$120	$240	$60
June	No big item	$200	$290	$10
July	No meeting – picnic	No raffle	No raffle	No raffle
August	No raffle – all proceeds donated for school. One big raffle all went to one person	No raffle	No raffle	No raffle
September	DP-4 – Jebao Auto Dosing Pump	Did not get raffled.	No raffle	No raffle
October	Apex Auto Feeder & DP-4 – Jebao Auto Dosing Pump	$100 for Apex + $60 for DP4	$316	$20
November	Eheim Auto Feeder		$237	$10
December		$200 budget for holiday party raffle
January	MP40

OPEN DISCUSSION:

Dave is dealing with a lot of issues with the school. The guy who was supposed to be building the stand for the tank is not responding. I THINK THIS IS RESOLVED??. Also, Cary needs to buy about 15 LED lights for the school – – –

We paid for a new stand for the school

Meeting Adjourned: 10:10 PM

December 6, 2016

FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes July 12 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

July 12, 2016

eDDIES hOUSE: 17016 nw 22 sTREET, pEMBROKE pINES, fl 33028

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:44 PM

Attendees: Eddie Soler, Alan Strachan, Dave Thompson, Gayle Velazquez, Julio Perez, Lulio Vasquez

Review of June, 2016 BOD meeting Minutes: Alan approves, Lulio seconds. All approve.

Review of June, 2016 Treasurers Report Minutes: Alan approves, Lulio seconds. All approve.

Florida Resale Certificate: paperwork has been sent to the state, and now we wait for it to come back to us.

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
July 30	No speaker – no meeting.	July 30 picnic at Oleta – $133.45 to rent the pavilion near the beach, they have a grill. Eddie Steinman went over there and paid the deposit. 11AM – 3PM, Club will provide burgers, dogs, buns, drinks, silverware, plates. Members can bring sides. Must be a member. Eddie will call Oleta to find out which pavilion. Gayle and Dave will coordinate to bring everything. Eddie will send out an email blast. (25# Charcoal briskets, lighter fluid)
August 23^rd	Charlie Gregory – Dave Thompson confirmed the date with Cary – fish diseases	Turtle Release – Gayle will report back with the dates
September 24^th at 10AM	Sanyai Yoshi (Saturday) September 24^th, confirmed. At Nova. – Redundancies for safety	Poker Run – cancelled for this year so that we can concentrate on Aquarimania. Meeting at Miami Seaquarium on Tuesday, Sept 27
October 25^th	Mark Callahan – at SPHS
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15^th SPS expert –	Tank Hop – November 5^th? November 12^th? Talk to DannyDJD from ReefCentral (My 1300 gallon addiction: A Miami reef build story.) Talk to wanderlest from ReefCentral (Cousin of the 1300 gallon addiction: The Miami Kitchen Build) Dave will start organizing this to get tanks to visit Eddie will “put something together” for the next email blast to get people to volunteer to show their tanks Eddie will call other Julio (from Reefapalooza)

RAFFLE Volunteer needed

Membership: Alan is pretty much caught up on cards

Membership at FL Frag Swap – we got about 15 new memberships from this

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Aquarimania

Committee needs to be established ASAP – Eddie Soler, Eddie Steinman, Ty, Gerard Loisel, Julio, Dave

RAP NY?? Eddie will send out an email to everyone on the committee.

Julio will send Gayle the login info for the website for Aquarimania

Saturday meeting for Aquarimania will be at Julio’s place

Address:

T-Shirts’:

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April	No big item / Achilles tang	$254	$231	$20
May	4 channel Jebeo doser (DP-4)	$120	$240	$60
June	No big item	$200	$290	$10
July
August
September
October
November
December

OPEN DISCUSSION: no August BOD meeting – we will discuss at the picnic

Meeting Adjourned: 8:46pm

July 12, 2016

FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes June 7 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

June 7, 2016

eDDIES hOUSE: 17016 nw 22 sTREET, pEMBROKE pINES, fl 33028

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:48PM

Attendees: Eddie Soler, Alan Strachan, Dave Thompson, Gayle Velazquez, Julio Perez

Review of May, 2016 BOD meeting Minutes: Dave motions to approve them. Allan seconds. All approve.

Review of May, 2016 Treasurers Report Minutes: Dave motions to approve them. Allan seconds. All approve.

Florida Resale Certificate: Julio spoke to Ari and his assistant and they are setting up the paperwork for this. Julio will call them tomorrow and will keep harassing them. Julio will send the information to Allen.

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
June 28th	Meeting at Nova University – confirmed. Mark Esquinazi: Feeding Corals
July 30	No speaker – no meeting.	July 30 picnic at Oleta – $133.45 to rent the pavilion near the beach, they have a grill. Eddie Steinman went over there and paid the deposit. 11AM – 3PM, Club will provide burgers, dogs, buns, drinks, silverware, plates. Members can bring sides. Must be a member. Eddie will get find out what pavilion from Eddie Steinman. Gayle and Dave will coordinate to bring everything
August 23^rd	Charlie Gregory – Dave Thompson confirmed the date with Cary – fish diseases	Turtle Release – Gayle will contact Nova to schedule this
September 24^th at 10AM	Sanyai Yoshi (Saturday) September 24^th, confirmed. At Nova. – Redundancies for safety	Poker Run – cancelled for this year so that we can concentrate on Aquarimania.
October 25^th	Mark Callahan – at SPHS
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15^th SPS expert –	Tank Hop – November 5^th? November 12^th? Talk to DannyDJD from ReefCentral (My 1300 gallon addiction: A Miami reef build story.) Talk to wanderlest from ReefCentral (Cousin of the 1300 gallon addiction: The Miami Kitchen Build) Dave will start organizing this to get tanks to visit

RAFFLE Volunteer needed.

Membership: Allen will send Dave a list of names of people who signed up for membership at the Frag Swap

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Frag Swap: ReCap- about 400 people attended, try to plan ahead better for the raffle next year – order stuff ahead of time. Remarks from vendors (and attendees) were very positive. About 30 vendors.

Aquarimania Committee needs to be established ASAP – Eddie Soler, Eddie Steinman, Ty, Gerard Loisel, Julio, Dave

RAP NY??

Fl Frag Swap, 6-11-16 11am – 5pm: They are offering table and membership drive items. Half off the price of entry for FMAS members. Free entry for people who sign up for FMAS membership that day, Dave will advertise this event on FB. Eddie Soler will send out an email about it. Eddie Soler can b

T-Shirts’: they are in. We will sell them for $10. Cost was $7.XX

We are donating $175 x 2 to sponsor 2 kids to go to summer Marine Biology camp at Key Biscayne for MAST academy. Gerard Loisel is the organizer. Checks need to be sent.

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April	No big item / Achilles tang	$254	$231	$20
May	4 channel Jebeo doser (DP-4)	$120	$240	$60
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

OPEN DISCUSSION:

Meeting Adjourned: 9:27 PM

June 7, 2016

FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes May 3 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

May 3, 2016

Bobby’S Warehouse

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:31 PM

Attendees: Julio Perez, Allan Strachan, Renee Steinman, Eddie Steinman, Eddie Soler, Bobby Dickmann, Gayle Velazquez, Lulio Vasquez, Dave Thompson

Review of April, 2016 BOD meeting Minutes: Dave motions to approve. Eddie Steinman seconds.

Review of April, 2016 Treasurers Report Minutes: Dave motions to approve. Eddie Steinman seconds.

Florida Resale Certificate: Julio emailed Ari and left him a message 2 weeks ago. Secretary told Julio he was out of the office. Ari should be back tomorrow. Julio and Allen will follow up with Ari.

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
May 24	Marc Levinson – what to do when disaster strikes	Frag Swap will be at the school May 21^st at the school – we will start ASAP Dave confirmed the date with CaryEddie Soler will send out “Save the Dates”Gayle got artwork / postcards for the Frag SwapBobby will get regular tables, no school tablesFree admission if you are a member.School charges $300-$400 for the janitor, plus $500ish for tables and chairs
June 28th	SPHS is closed for the summer. Meeting at Nova University – confirmed.	Josh to talk about Zooanthids? – Eddie Soler to talk to Josh
July 30	No speaker – no meeting.	July 30 picnic at Oleta – $133.45 to rent the pavilion near the beach, they have a grill. Eddie Steinman will go over there and pay the deposit. 11AM – 3PM, Club will provide burgers, dogs, buns, drinks, silverware, plates. Members can bring sides. Must be a member.
August 23^rd	Charlie Gregory – Dave Thompson confirmed the date with Cary	Turtle Release
September	Sanyai Yoshi (Saturday) September 24^th, confirmed. At Nova?	Poker Run –
October	Mark Callahan
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta (DATE NEEDS TO BE CLARIFIED AND VERIFIED) – SPS expert – Eddie Soler will reach out to him to confirm the date	Tank Hop

Membership: Allen is doing a good job

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Picnic – Eddie Steinman will make the arrangements for Oleta in July

T-Shirts’: they are in. We will sell them for $10. Cost was $7.XX

We are donating $250 for a scholarship at SPHS for a top student who is a member of their marine club. Eddie Steinman makes this motion. Lulio seconds. All approve.

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April	No big item / Achilles tang	$254	$231	$20
May	4 channel Jebeo doser (DP-4)
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Frag Swap:

We will set up a booth to advertise for Aquarimania – we have banners and a tablecloth

We have sold about 17 tables to commercial people and 2 tables to members.

We need 2 cash boxes – one for the front (membership) and one for the raffle.

We need to buy some things for the raffle. Julio makes a motion to give Bobby a raffle budget of $800 and let him go get the raffle prizes. Eddie Steinman seconds. Eddie Steinman will talk to Julian and Jeff Turner to get items donated. Eddie Soler will talk to Mark E to get things donated.

Allen will talk to Bernand to see if we can get stuff donated from him.

Meeting Adjourned: 9:30PM

May 3, 2016

FMAS BOD Meeting Minutes Apr 5 2016

FMAS BOARD MEETING MINUTES

April 5, 2016

Eddie Soler’s house- 17016 NW 22 Street, Pembroke Pines, FL 33028

Meeting CALLED TO ORDER: 7:22PM

Attendees: Renee Steinman, Eddie Steinman, Allen Strachan, Julio Perez, Gayle Velazquez, Eddie Soler, Dave Thompson

Review of March 2016 BOB meeting Minutes: Gayle approves, Eddie Soler seconds but with a correction: Gayle was not in attendance last month

Review of March 2016 Treasurers’ Report meeting Minutes: no treasurer’s report last month

Florida Resale Certificate: Julio reached out to Ari, but Ari has been very busy so we haven’t heard back. Julio will follow up again for next month’s meeting.

	SPEAKERS	EVENTS
April 26	Martin Moe – talk on Diadema We will reimburse him for his hotel, food, gasEddie Steinman will remind Martin MoeRaffle prize: Apex DOS – Eddie Soler will get it wholesale if possible, retail if not ($280)
May 24	Marc Levinson	Frag Swap will be at the school May 21^st at the school – we will start ASAP Dave confirmed the date with CaryEddie Soler will send out “Save the Dates”Gayle will do artwork / postcards for the Frag SwapBobby will get regular tables, no school tablesFree admission if you are a member.School charges $300-$400 for the janitor, plus $150ish for tables and chairs
June	SPHS is closed for the summer. Meeting at Nova University?
July	No speaker – no meeting.	July 30 picnic at Oleta
August	Charlie Gregory? Eddie will find out. At SPHS?	Turtle Release
September	Sanyai Yoshi (Saturday) September 24^th, confirmed. At Nova?	Poker Run –
October	Mark Callahan	Aquarimania Show – October date TBD Bobby will get a date (beginning of Oct), get the contract, and confirm the roomDay: price of $6000 for the Hilton2 days (Saturday and Sunday) at the Hilton: $8000Can setup FridayWest Hall, 30 booths with pipe and drapes. Each additional booth is $50.Extra costs of electricalFree parkingWill cost about $10,000 – $20,000 total Freshwater and Saltwater – we would like to have 50 – 60 booths We may lose money on it this year, but we are going to make this an annual event Eddie will run the show and set up a committee
November 15^th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta (DATE NEEDS TO BE CLARIFIED AND VERIFIED) – SPS expert – Eddie Soler will reach out to him to confirm the date	Tank Hop

WEB SITE / SOCIAL MEDIA: Dave was added as an admin to both FB pages

ADDITIONAL EVENTS / FIELD TRIPS:

Picnic – Eddie Steinman will make the arrangements for Oleta in July

Dave will figure out t-shirts and polo shirts to order. Light blue polo shirts for BOD, maybe gray t-shirts for members?

RAFFLE Report

Month	Big Raffle Prize Item	Cost of Raffle Prizes	Cash from selling Raffle Tickets	Money PayPayl’ed for Raffle
January	GoPro	Fish cost $150 (GoPro was donated)	$320	$80
February	Band saw	352.47		140
March	No big item	Less than $340	60	40
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December

Frag Swap 2016, and Aquarimania show!!!!!!!

Aquaimarnia

Goal: bring back a show to South FL and involve the whole community.

Miami Airport Convention Center –

October may not be so good because budgets have already been set for this year. The very beginning of next year (Jan) would be good time. We tentatively reserved Jan 20^th, 2017 – Friday to setup, Show Saturday and Sunday. Cleanup is on Sunday night. 50 booths piped and draped.

BOD approved a budget for this show of $20,000 previously.

Convention center would cost $9760

Eddie Steinman makes a motion to reserve and pay the deposit to the Hilton to book the date. Gayle seconds. All approve.

We should open a separate bank account for Aquarimania. Eddie Soler and Julio will open this account and put $10,000 into it.

Frag Swap

9 booths sold (3 of which became commercial members)

$50 budget for FB ad for frag swap

Raffle prizes: Julio will reach out to BRS to find out if they will send us anything for the raffle

Vectra return pump for big prize?

Meeting Adjourned: 9:06PM

April 5, 2016