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 17th
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