Minutes October 21, 2010 6:30 Civic Center

Meeting Thursday October 21, 2010

In attendance were: Rhonda , Todd , Tony, Anna , Leslie and Naomi

1) The meeting was called to order at 6:40.

2) The first topic of discussion was the Christmas Baskets.Tony will send a notice out to all parents for parental donations and will post it on the team website.The tickets will go on sale in the beginning of November.We will need a lottery licence to sell the tickets.Tony suggested the club contribute $150 worth of gift certificates(from local restaurants etc.)be put in the gift basket.Parents will be informed that donations should be in by Nov 6th so that tickets can be sold the following week.

3)Rhonda will give a financial statement at the next meeting.

4)The partnership program will run the same as it has in past years. Tony will remind parents to think of possible people/companies to ask.Todd made a grant request to the town.Florenceville said they would give $80 toward any swimmer from their area.

5)Meets were discussed.Mid nov(14th) meet will be in Saint John for novice weekend.Mid dec meet will be in Fredericton. B meet will be in Fredericton nove 20-21stThe provincial team selection will be in Moncton(this is an A and B meet)Both of these will be before Christmas.

6) Sobeys grocery packing confirmed by Anna for December 3-4 2010 and March 18-19 2010

7)Suits will be either from Off The Wall Graphics or Kamden Graphics.

8)Coaching/Training:Tony suggested we pass a motion to for Nancy an Pascall to get their coaching training at the end of november in Mirimichi.Everyone was in agreement.

9)Tony suggested we sit down with Randy and discuss how we go about recruiting and training coach.Randy will discuss bringing some Coacg from UNB to help with the techincial training.

10) Anna connected with Paul Bradley from the CJ104 radio station as well as Jolene Wallace at Citadel in Pres Isle and discussed putting our team's pictures on their website.Anna will speak to Jeff from the Bugle to see if we would need permission to use the write up that the Bugle uses.Rhonda suggested some of the swim team go into the radio station to give live updates on swim meets and their progress.

11)Tony said that we need to let parents know that we need to get a parent signed up to be in charge of the officials for the swim meets and we need to get people qualified to be timers.It all just needs to be coordinated.

12)We discussed if and how we should charge for the extra use of pool time.We decided that we would charge $2 for he extra time(in the extra lane) on wed nights. Tony will be giving us an update on the 3 meetings he will be attending next week.

13)We all discussed adding the swimmer's approximate klms swam per week to their bio for the newspaper.

14) Next meeting will be held Tuesday Nov 16th at 6:30.

The meeting was adjourned at 7:38.

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