General Meeting Minutes for November 2018
Attending the September meeting were; Dave Burroughs, Michelle Matheron, Henning Carlson, Jamie Picou and Winston Campbell. Small attendance. I think Thanksgiving might have had an influence. It was great to see Henning at the meeting and walking upright, back surgery recovery is slow.
The meeting was called to order at 7:58 P.M. by President Jamie.
The meeting minutes from October were read by President Jamie. Dave made the motion to accept and the motion carried.
The treasurer report:
No change.
Membership:
Assumed no changes since last month's in the absence of Steve, our Membership Chair.
Old Business:
It is official. The club banquet will be February 2, 2019 again at Schmidt’s Sausage Haus in German Village. Gather at 5:00 P.M. until 9:00 P.M. We have the complete upper floor reserved for our use. The cost will be $20.00 per person with any difference (excluding cash bar) covered by your club. Reservations are needed by Jan. 20th. The reservation forms can be found on The Buckeye Beemer website (see the link below) and should be mailed to Henning Carlsen, 5405 Infinity Court, Grove City, Oh. 43123.
New Business:
We need 4 volunteers to make vendor contacts to attend the banquet. Vendors are:
.. Mathias BMW, Motohio,
.. Iron Pony,
.. Ride 1 Powersports.
We need to know who the volunteers are by the December meeting.
Even though the banquet has been moved to February there still will be no meeting for January, we will decide on whether we will meet in February at the December meeting.
Dave posed the question "since we are now having a very small General Meeting attendence (5 or 6 is normal) should we forget about getting our special back room reserved ahead for the entire year? The restaurant could then use it for much larger groups ($$$$$ for them). The decision was... “Our” usual room is the club's preferred meeting location if available, but we will be willing to sit out in the main dining area if King Ave. 5 has a large group wanting “our” room.
Prez Jamie is requesting that everyone coming to the December meeting bring some motorcycle related item (farkle?) new or used, 'nice stuff' like a near new Shoei helmet, but not a quart of used oil or something like that. Seriously though, if you have some item laying around unused, gift wrap it and we will have a fun sort of Christmas exchange at the meeting
I announced that effective at the end of December I will be stepping down as secretary of the Buckeye Beemers. It truly has been an honor serving in that roll for these three years but it is time for someone else to step in, volunteer to be nominated to take over that function. For that matter, all club offices are open for nominations if someone would like to take a post with the club, but I am the only one stepping down at this time.
At 8:25 I made a motion to adjourn, meeting adjourned.
Link to Banquet form .... https://bmwform1.blogspot.com/2012/12/2012-buckeye-beemers-banquet.html
Respectfully submitted,
Winston
