Category: Meeting Minutes

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 25th	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 15th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15th SPS expert – WE NEED A COMPUTER FOR HIM!!!!   Eddie Soler will bring the FMAS laptop to the meeting for Mike	Tank Hop – November 5th? November 12th? Nov 5th it is Lulio is ON Julio Basanta- is ON Ixsander- Is ON Ty- ????? Richard (friend of Julio B, and Ixsander)- Is ON
December 3rd is better. If not, then 10th	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

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 24th at 10AM	Sanyai Yoshi: September 24th, 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 25th	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 15th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15th SPS expert –	Tank Hop – November 5th? November 12th? Nov 5th 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 3rd is better. If not, then 10th	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

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 5th or the 12th.	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

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 23rd	Charlie Gregory – Dave Thompson confirmed the date with Cary – fish diseases	Turtle Release – Gayle will contact Nova to schedule this
Saturday September 24th at 10AM	Sanyai Yoshi: September 24th, 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 25th	Mark Callahan – at SPHS Eddie Soler will get the Apex Auto feeder Eddie Steinman will get the Eheim Digital Auto Feeder
November 15th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG)	Mike Paletta November 15th SPS expert –	Tank Hop – November 5th? November 12th? Nov 5th 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 3rd is better. If not, then 10th	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