QCPC Board Meeting Minutes
Aug 7, 2017 - 1 pm, Kino Conference Room
Present: Board Members Jean
Bustard, John Hughes, Sandy Veydt, Ruth Maki; and Court Committee Chair Jeanne Iannacchino.
Absent: Board Members Karen
Morse, Susan Jones, Linda von Felden
1.
Call to order: 1:00 by
President Jean Bustard.
2.
Previous meeting minutes were unanimously approved.
3.
Treasurer’s Report (Karen Morse, given by Jean Bustard)- Our only
expense for July was $157.58 for pickleballs.
We have $13,053.08 in our bank account.
4.
Committee Reports
a.
Membership (Jean Bustard for Susan Jones)- A few new members have
joined this summer. We have a total of 311 members. As of July 1, new members pay $10 for the
remainder of the year.
b.
Communications/Website (Ruth Maki)- The website has been updated
for August. A newsletter will go out on Tuesday including items from this Board
meeting.
c.
Court Management (Jeannie Iannacchino)- There is a new Facilities
Manager for Quail Creek. Jeanne will
make contact with him. The POA will
paint the lights that are peeling and will put electrical in our shed. Rob cleans courts and empties trash; Jeanne
will speak with him about keeping the courts clean.
d.
Socials (Sandy Veydt)- Nothing right now.
e.
Player Development and Organized Play Committee- As a board, we agreed to form a new committee
called “Player Development and Organized Play Committee”. Its purpose is to organize player development
classes and Club Sanctioned play on our courts.
A better description of this new committee will be drafted for inclusion
in our Policies & Procedures Manual and the website. Karen Morse will be the committee chair.
We want this committee to be made up of 3 or 4 people, not a
single person. Jean will help with this
to get a group of instructors who can teach players. Karen will recruit volunteers to serve on this
committee.
Karen will resign as Treasurer and Cheryl Francis will be appointed to complete her term. Cheryl will become a QCPC Board Member when
she takes over as Treasurer.
Jean proposed that the Club provide balls for use in player
development drills. We have been using Pure
2 balls, but these will not be legal in tournaments as of January, 2018. Pure 2 balls are good for the Club because
they last a long time, but they become less bouncy with age. It would be nice to have balls available for
Player Development, as well as for baskets kept in our storage chest. Because Pure 2s may not be available in the
future, we will buy 300 Pure 2 balls to use for Player Development as well as
for Club Play.
Lisa Palcic and her doubles partner (excellent pickleball teachers
with Pickleball Edge) may be here in November before USAPA Nationals in Casa
Grande. We would like them to come in
and teach. Members would participate
with them in Clinics. Lisa is a
certified rater and would be willing to rate people at a small cost to the
player. We are waiting for confirmation
from them.
Quail Creek Saddlebrook Ranch Invitational Tournament- They are
still working on details of format.
There will be 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 for Men’s, Women’s and Mixed. 3-4 teams from Quail Creek and from
Saddlebrook Ranch would participate. We
would go there on Oct. 25. A preliminary
announcement about this will be included in the newsletter with more details to
follow.
We have many tournaments coming. Tournament schedule is as follows:
Quail-Creek Saddlebrook Invitational, October 25 (at Saddlebrook
Ranch)
Blind Date Tournament- November 11-12
Firefighters Tournament, Feb. 2-3 with Feb. 4 as rain date.
Senior Games, March 6-8
Quail Creek Classic, March 24-25
For these tournaments, the Club approves use of and provides the courts. Otherwise, the organizers are responsible for
the tournaments.
Balls for Blind Date Tournament- we will provide balls for this
tournament since this is a fund-raiser for local charities.
5.
Date and time of next board meeting – October 2, 2017 @ 1:00 pm
6.
Other Business- A concern
has been expressed about use of a non-Club owned ball machine in Club
sanctioned drills. Jean noted that our
normal waiver should cover injuries that involve the ball machine during club
sanctioned classes.
Shall we buy a ball caddy for use by instructors and in
drills. We have saved money on balls
this year so we have some money to spend.
We also would like a new bulletin board to go above the drinking
fountain. The Board agreed with these
expenditures.
7.
Formal Board Meeting was adjourned at 2:22 PM.
