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 23rd | Charlie Gregory – Dave Thompson confirmed the date with Cary – fish diseases | Turtle Release – Gayle will report back with the dates |
| September 24th at 10AM | Sanyai Yoshi (Saturday) September 24th, 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 25th | Mark Callahan – at SPHS | |
| November 15th – the week before Thanksgiving (not the week of TG) | Mike Paletta November 15th SPS expert – | Tank Hop – November 5th? November 12th? 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 |
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OPEN DISCUSSION: no August BOD meeting – we will discuss at the picnic
Meeting Adjourned: 8:46pm