BFC Board of Directors Meeting
April 25, 2007
Members in attendance: Paul Prentiss, Bob Bush, Tom Finley, Mark Riley, Mike Malec, Dave Clark, Adam Armold, Al Permut, Bill Leuchten, Brian Ross, Tyler Bowman
Members absent: Graham Carlson, Terry Escamilla, Tony Fernandez
Guests: Chad Pettrone
Call to Order: 6:07 pm by President, Paul Prentiss located at ERA Tradewinds Realty office conference room, 4999 Pearl Circle, Boulder, CO.
1. Financial Update for BFC to be provided by Mark Riley
The objective of BFC Treasurer Mark Riley’s budget review is for the Board to determine how best to utilize certain funds identified in the BFC 2006-07 budget that have not yet been spent for the purpose for which they were budgeted and to review the budget forecast for the remainder of the year. Funds budgeted that have not yet been utilized relate to the following topics: BFC merchandise, Chapter awards, legal fees, BFC Memorial Park clean up, Boulder Creek Spring clean up, member participation improvement, education projects, CTU donations, habitat improvement projects, and the South Boulder Creek project.
2. Membership Survey results and recommendations
The Membership Survey Review committee (Tom Finley, Adam Armold, and Mark Riley) presented their analysis and recommendations report to the Board. The report divides their recommendations into two phases, those suggested for immediate implementation and those suggested for future implementation. A somewhat lengthy discussion of a portion of the first phase recommendations resulted in exhausting the remainder of the meeting time. It was determined that Paul Prentiss shall add segments of the remaining recommendations to the agenda of future Board meetings until all of the recommendations have been discussed and a plan of action for implementing selected recommendations can be initiated.
3. Spring Rendezvous update by Adam Armold & Mark Riley
Adam Armold and Mark Riley reported on their attendance at the recently completed CTU 2007 Spring Rendezvous held in Redstone, Colorado. One focus of the meeting was the topic of communication improvement throughout the organization with specific relation to communication between National TU, CTU, and the state chapters. Paul Prentiss announced that there is now a CTU link that has been added on the BFC web site to be used by members for accessing and sharing current CTU and other state chapter information. Mark reported on an interesting presentation discussing the Conservation Index tool that National TU and CTU utilizes for evaluating, prioritizing, and directing grant funds and resources for conservation projects. It was identified that there would be interesting potential future opportunities for inviting various National TU or CTU speakers to present programs at BFC chapter meetings. Adam and Mark learned some interesting membership relation ideas from other chapters in attendance that could have future applications to BFC membership improvement and development efforts. Some of these ideas have been incorporated into the Membership Survey Review committee report.
4. Other….
May Programs
May 15th Presentation on the Rogers Park Project
Status of the Chapter Effectiveness Index?
During the CTU banquet ceremonies in Redstone, the Boulder Flycasters received recognition as, ”Exemplary Chapter of Trout Unlimited”.
Meeting Adjournment: 8:16 pm.
Minutes submitted by: Tom Finley, BFC Board Secretary.