CVR - Meetings

Secretary's Notes -
March 30, 2003 Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Central Vermont Runners was called to order by President Richard Cleveland at 4:45 pm on Sunday, March 30, 2003, at the home of Betty Rose. Ten club members attended the meeting.

Election of Officers: The following club officers were nominated and approved:

Vice President:   Michael Chernick
Secretary:           Betty Rose
Treasurer:           Laura Medalie

The office of President was not filled at the meeting. Rowly Brucken was nominated but was not present to accept the nomination and could not be reached by phone. It is hoped that either Rowly or another club member will step forward to fill this office.

Appointments: Beth Eliason was appointed to be the new newsletter editor. Dave Kissner was appointed to continue as Webmaster.

Newsletter schedule: A yearly schedule for newsletters was set up as follows:
          Mid March
          Mid May
          Mid July
          Mid September
          Early November

Meeting dates: 2003 CVR meetings will be held as follows:
          June 2nd, 6:30 pm at the home of Darragh Ellerson
          August 4th, 6:30 pm at the home of Michael Chernick
          September 22nd, 6:30 pm at the home of Tim Noonan
          November 17th, 6:30 pm at the home of Betty Rose

Annual dues: A discussion was held regarding dues. Currently the annual rate for both an individual and a family is $10.00 but RRCA is charging per person with no family rate. A motion was made and seconded to charge $10.00 for an individual and $15.00 for a family. During the discussion on this motion, problems with RRCA were raised. It was also determined that currently CVR has sufficient money to support operations without raising the dues. Therefore, the Motion was withdrawn and there will be no change in dues at the current time.

Spending Club funds: Two suggestions were made for spending the Club funds. The first was a charitable activity for the collection of old running shoes to ship to third world countries. The second was the purchase of a timing clock. This item (clock purchase) will be placed on the agenda for the next meeting. Tim Noonan will check on prices of clocks.

Race Schedule:
  • Mutt Strutt, 3 miles, April 27th, 10:00 am. Jamie Shanley and Donna Smyers (Michael Chernick will replace Donna on race day)
  • Capital City Stampede, 10K, June 14th, 9:00 am, Sam Davis
  • CVR Kids Track Meet, June 21st, 9:30 am, Tim Noonan and Norm Robinson
  • Paul Mailman 10 Miler, June 28th, 8:45 am, Dave Kissner
  • Bear Swamp Run, 5.7 miles, July 10th, 6:00 pm, Tim Noonan
  • Berlin Pond Run Around, 8K, August 14th, 6:00 pm, Michael Chernick
  • Northfield Savings Bank Labor Day Race, August 30th, 9:30 am-1 Miler, 10:30 am-5K, Tim Noonan, CVR Coordinator
  • Leaf Peepers Half Marathon and 5K, October 5th, 11 am, Darragh Ellerson, Sandy Colvin
  • First Night Montpelier, 5K, December 31st, 3pm, Rowly Brucken

Website: Dave Kissner reported that the he has been paying $25/month for a website ($12.50 is CVR portion) but there is a new non-profit plan with a discounted $16.00 rate. The monthly fee must be electronically withdrawn from a bank account. A Motion was made, seconded and approved to authorize CVR's payment for this website access at the nonprofit discount rate.

Race applications: Donna Smyers requested that all race directors have the race applications ready to be mailed by May 1st.

The meeting adjourned at 6:00 pm..

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