Date: June 8, 2023
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: Mohnton Fire Company
Treasury Report – Shaun Luther – 131% of target. Constant Contact yearly bill was due, generator for the inflatable start/finish line (capital equipment designated), and Charlie Horse expenses.
Races:
- Charlie Horse Half Marathon – Shaun Luther – race is completed for 2023; operationally the event went well, and the weather was good. The maiden use of the inflatable start/finish line went well. Registration numbers were 66 entrants for the half marathon and 25 entrants for 5K. According to Shaun, these numbers are too low to keep the race sustainable. Feedback from those who ran was positive, but that doesn’t include people who didn’t run and their reasons for not choosing to participate. Various ideas for marketing and changes to race were discussed.
- Run for the Ages 10K Trail Run (Sunday, June 25, 2023) – Blair Hogg – 106 entries so far (last year was 175 entrants). Yesterday was the change in price and the end of the guarantee for socks as the swag item. This WNR will be the run for the Pacer course – Steve Vida needs someone to lead the run for this.
- Grings Mill 5K and 10K, Kids run (Sunday, August 6, 2023) – Jason Karpinski – planning going ok. He will have list for volunteers at the next meeting.
Committee Reports
Community Service
- Weekly runs – Steve Vida will need help with leading the distances since Matt is not here this summer
- Trail Maintenance – Shaun Luther put in a lot of work on the Horse Shoe Trail – a shrubbery cutback, which took about 4 hours. His effort received kudos from the trail association and the land owners who also benefitted.
- This month’s long run, Port Clinton run, with ‘afters’ at Copperz Brewing Company. See the club’s Facebook page for notifications about this.
- The ‘Intro to trail running’ event was successful. Fleet feet covered the gear, Berks Trails did a discussion, and Pacers did some training and about a 2-mile run.
Old business
- Annual Passport – From Michelle: Keep in mind that 3 meetings are required and there are 5 left available to attend.
- Remember the RSVP for meetings (for food headcount) needs to be made by the Monday prior to the meeting.
New business
- Board meeting – next round of changes to the by-laws. The board members looked at section 6 about officers.
- The club President runs the board meetings according to the current by laws, the change is attempting to lessen some of this responsibility.
- Descriptions of volunteer positions: several positions also indicating that they are officers of the club. Proposing that the volunteer roles be removed.
- Elections – needs a new section that provides actual details of how the elections are conducted. Propose that election announcements get started in September which will lead to the election in November, and that any dues paying member may vote in the election. Motion made to post the proposed updates in the next newsletter, with intent to vote at the July meeting. Seconded, and passed the motion.
- Also discussed the update of the website—Michelle is looking for any club member(s) who have experience in website development. The objective is to explore whether a member would volunteer to do this (update the web site) or make recommendations about a service that can assist with this. Someone who speaks the website lingo is needed.
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