Meeting Minutes


Blue Water Parrot Head Club
Meeting Minutes 8/10/10
Military Street Music Cafe

Mary Kay opened the meeting promptly at 7:00 p.m.

Welcome to the Gary and Anne Reichle's home.

Remember  Save the pull tabs from your favorite canned beverage they are used for children's kidney dialysis through Ronald McDonald house. Our charity will be the Humane Society.

Claudia provided copies of the Treasurer report to the membership.

Please check the club roster for phone number and email address.

Pheeding Phrenzy - Tom & Candi Lozowski along with Bill and Steve Padgett have volunteered to host the event. The party will be September 18th at four o'clock at Tom and Candi's house. An evite to the event has been sent please respond with your dish to pass item and whether or not you are entering the boat drink contest. Please bring your own drinks, chairs and a dish to pass. The membership voted (at the July meeting) to award $50 to the best boat drink if at least five are entered.

Jazz on the Lake - Ane gave a quick update and the great music and good time everyone had. A special thanks to her for providing the "hospitality" suite.

Road Clean up - Road clean was Sunday July 18th, 14 members participated in the clean up and Ray won the prize for the most items found from the list. He also apparently picked up a piece of the Hubble space telescope (hummm).

A blood drive is taking place this week at the Port Huron location of the American Red Cross, the date are August 10, 12 and 13 times are 1-7, 1-7 and 9-3 respectively.

Tiger's game trip was planned Saturday September 11, unfortunately not enough interest was generated to fund the trip so it is cancelled.

Some time ago the club established the "Dave Renshaw Spirit Award", in his memory to be presented to a club member who best by example typifies what the BWPHC is about. Mickie has reviewed the criteria and wants to stress it is intended for someone who contributes and it not just a party person. Please forward your nominations to any member of the board by the November meeting, the award will be presented at the Christmas party. Don't forget to include a summary of why you believe this person should received the award. Jim will send a copy of the award criteria with these minutes.

After an extensive discussion on the current state of the club membership and the by laws, our Secretary wrote a letter to PHIP explaining the situation and asked for guidance. This is the response from Bob Heffelfinger director of membership. "The Badleys are predicating this whole maneuver on Article IV of the BWPHC By-laws, Page 2 of 2 BWPHC minutes 081010.doc which in their minds gives them autonomy to do as they please. However, as an unbiased observer, my interpretation is that Article IAV assumes active Phounders, which is not the case here. Therefore, if Candi and Tom, the only two active Phounders, vote to amend or eliminate Article IV, so be it& The Badleys have no input in the matter. You should, however, be able to document their level of participation over the past several years. Make certain this "vote" is duly recorded in your minutes, then go ahead & rewrite the By-Laws as y'all see fit, then get 'em approved by the General Membership. If Badleys object, you may certainly refer them to my office."

Since Jim Acheson and Acheson Ventures has accomplished a lot for the community. We voted to make him an honorary member of the club. On August 5th Jim was in town so we presented him with the basket of Parrot Head goodies along with wine and a special beer (Acheson Pale Ale). Vinomondo Winery included the wine, beer and put the basket together.

Christmas Party, a sheet was passed around to ask for volunteers to work on and to chair the event; Bob Howard will lead the team. Candi and Tom provided some items for a special raffle to raise money for the Christmas party; the raffle netted $67 dollars. Thanks for providing the idea and the material for the first one. We will have additional raffles at the meetings until Christmas.

We voted to take the 50/50 raffle money for the remainder of the year and put it into the general fund. Due to unexpeted bills.

KWR we opened initial discussion on the Key West Rendezvous, not decisions at this time.

Bob and Jane Howard updated the club on the raffle of a school bus (decorated in Parrothead style) they bought a ticket and the club voted to purchase another one for $10 dollars. Who knows we could be driving our own proper vehicle to events.

Caribbean Blue is playing August 28th in Lexington during their Margaritaville event.

Please try and use the board member individual email addresses, next to the pictures on the "Loyal Crew" tab on the club site. We are hoping that using the individual email address will speed up the response.

Tonight's 50/50 raffle raised $40.00 dollars for the club general fund.

The members of the August birthday team closed the meeting



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