December 16, 2007 Meeting Minutes
Present for meeting:
Absent for meeting:
David Fleig (Membership Co-Chair)
Ozlem Tanik has resigned from her position on the board.
The meeting is called to order and discussion begins.
Emric states that with regard to the newly vacant Marketing Chair position, most important is advertising is to create opportunities for the club to be out in public, i.e. to organize more public venues for events.
Hillary states that it is important to appoint a person for the position soon.
· The board agrees that it is a priority, to find public venues for milongas, to appoint person to vacant position.
· Review of regular local events
Tangophilia has 2nd and 4th Fridays and 2nd and 3rd Saturday; Triangle Tango has 3rd Friday and 4th Saturday; Dan Plonski and Eduardo Lazarowski organize occasional 1st Saturday with no guarantee.
· New milonga is proposed for on 1st Saturday at Nantucket Grill. This requires contact with Dan/Eduardo to make sure that there is no conflict with their event. Emric will be the lead contact in this regard.
· Proposal to make 4th Sat TDS milonga a Swango on a regular basis through spring is passed (all agreed).
· Decision to let go of Tuesday practica but to continue Sunday with Dmitri Ponarin’s lessons and practica is passed (all agreed).
· The monthly board meeting will be held at 5:00 on 1st Sunday of month or one hour prior to Dmitri’s practica (all agreed).
· Web site revisions in progress, first draft planned for after the holidays.
· Proposal to offer ½ price membership in conjunction with a spring workshop is passed (all agreed).
· An update to pricing will be to set milonga prices at $5.00 (not donation based) for Open Eye, Nantucket and Swango (all agreed).
o Note: For the Open Eye milonga we tip staff 50%(ish). The monetary split is arranged with Nantucket at 50%. For the Swango event, we need to pay Jim $100/$105 plus reimburse for wine/snacks.
· The board will need to have someone organize workshops. The appointment will be made at a later meeting.
· The board is in favor of bringing Daniela and Luis back in the spring of 2008 for a second workshop (all agreed).
