Minutes Of April 2006
Minutes of April 30, 2006 OCBCF Regular Meeting
Location: Dr(s) Tintera house. Present (officers): George Tintera, President; Ken Muir, Secretary; Dan De Leon, 1st VP; Augie Rivera, 2d VP; Chris Villareal, Treasurer. Also present: Eddie Rios, Cris De Leon, Ninfa Villarreal, Elma Salazar, Bob & Lucy James, Bill Wheeler, Patrick Flanigan, Charlene Tintera, Julie Rivera.
George Tintera brought the meeting to order at 2:05.
Old business:
Augie is taking action to correct the franchise situation with the Texas secretary of state and will obtain certain information from George.
Old Tournaments:
Ken discussed the Girls Region tournament. It had slightly under 60 players and seemed to go very well. The Girls Region games are on the web site and feedback is requested about it. Ken mentioned it would be nice to have PGN capability on the site itself so as to make the actual moves on the site, and Bob suggested he could maybe help with that.
Secondary Coastal Bend Championships had around 30 players and went well according to Eddie. Coastal Bend Primary/Elementary Championships also went well with around 60 players.
New tournaments:
Augie discussed the IWA Grades tournament (May 6). George will be doing data entry and is Chief TD. Augie is looking for any interested T Ds to assist.
New Business:
Chris Villarreal passed out copies of the April Treasurers Report. Balance as of 3/31/06 was $20,809.85. He had received the payment from Region VII Girls.
George appointed a nominating committee for officers for next year consisting of Joseph Eberhard and Elma Salazar, and the officers had no objection.
George brought up for discussion the propriety of including non-scholastic tournament fliers on the OCBCF site. A motion was made and unanimously approved that a separate web page on the site be devoted to open tournaments of interest to non-scholastic players.
Regarding proposals to be received at the May meeting for OCBCF tournaments for the upcoming school year, discussion was had. Some concern was expressed that public schools had difficulty planning for the upcoming school year. George mentioned that the intention of receiving proprosals was to develop a "road map" for the next year in order to avoid conflicts and foster overall participation, and that organizations who had not submitted proposals would not be barred from later submitting proposals. After proprosals are received at the May meeting, the officers of OCBCF will meet in executive session either that day or on another day to sort out the proposals, and then at the June meeting there will be an opportunity for further discussion and action.
Augie brought up the idea of changing the OCBCF name as it is no longer tied with the Optimist group but reasons were mentioned why it might not be a good idea to do so at present.
It was resolved that the Polgar Center, OCBCF and Kingsville Chess Club would jointly submit a proposal by May 31 for the Girls State Scholastic to be held in Corpus. It was also resolved that a bid for the 2008 State Scholastic would not be pursued at this time.
TD workshops were discussed as a possibility for the July time period.
Bill Wheeler mentioned that he would like to see use of the OCBCF money to bring the level of ability up for the chess players in the area.
Ken mentioned the idea of having an informal chess club and invited anyone interested to discuss with him.
The next OCBCF meeting was set for March 21, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. and the June End of Year meeting was set for June 24, 2006, restaurant to be determined.
I hereby declare that the foregoing is a true and correct rendition of the minutes of the OCBCF meeting which occurred on this the 30th of April, 2006. ___________/s/_____________________ Kenneth M. Muir Secretary