Minutes Of April 2008
In attendance: Chris and Ninfa Villarreal, George and Charlene Tintera, Ken Muir, Augie Rivera, Anisa Hernandez, Bob James, Eddie and Mrs. Rios.
Location: Tintera residence.
The meeting was called to order at 2:05 p.m. by George Tintera, President.
The minutes of the meeting of March, 2008 were passed by motion of Ninfa, seconded by Bob, unanimously accepted.
Treasurer's report and financial update by Chris Villarreal. Chris explained the financial details of the tournaments to date and passed out financial sheets with balances as of March 30, 3008. The balance as of the date of the meeting was $21, 076.01. There was some discussion about the reason for $165 received from St. Patrick, and Anisa will talk to Sandy Riggs about that to make sure it is money owed to OCBCF. George mentioned need for a paper trail similar to a purchase order, i.e. a request form from the sponsoring organizations.
Old business:
a. Request from Sandy Riggs for partial trophy cost reimbursement, for Collegiate High School Royals tournament. It was moved by Augie that because Collegiate was a new club and had been very active this year at tournaments, and because of their high expenses, the OCBCF should try to assist the club by waiving OCBCF fees for Collegiate, which were %587.50. Seconded by Ninfa, approved without objection.
b. Eddie reported on secondary champtionships, which were cancelled due to low turnout. Bob moved to reimburse him $85 for labeling fees for trophies, pursuant to prior OCBCF agreement to reimburse him for up to $250 for trophies. Seconded and approved.
c. March Madness Tournament: Eddie said Russell Shelton made a couple of hundred dollars. General discussion about low participation and reasons therefore.
Upcoming tournaments:
Augie is working on putting together a flier with George for May 3 IWA. He will take entries until noon that Friday and will work on data entry at George's house. Discussion about obtaining plaques and trophies. Instead of sections, the trophies will purely be by grade. I made motion to reimburse Augie $500 trophies in exchange for lowering the entry fee to $10. Seconded and passed unanimously.
May 24 tournament St. Patricks? Anisa will talk to Sandy about this to see if it is feasible.
New Business: Bob said he had talked to Steve Lipshitz about purchasing Think Like a King software for OCBCF or CCISD web sites for players to use. Amount would be $7,000 - $10,000. General discussion about approaching CCISD. Ken mentioned that we should try to get CCISD in exchange to grant stipends for teachers for chess clubs or free tournament sites, since free software alone may not be enough to foment an increase in scholastic activity. Augie mentioned that we should get specifics from Brownsville first to see how they did it before CCISD is approached. Working group formed by Bob, Eddie, Ninfa and Augie.
Nomination committee for new officer search formed. Nomination committee consists of Sandy, Ninfa and Anisa.
Annual Meeting will be June 14 at Fuddruckers; 1:30 lunch and 2:00 meeting. [Ken made a reservation there after the meeting with "Mike" and will call back to confirm 1 week before the meeting].
The next meeting will be held May 3 immediately following the Grades tournament.
I hereby declare that this is a true and correct rendition of my notes of the meeting held on April 13, 2008.
Signed /Ken Muir/OCBCF member