[SBU Board] Feedback Re Website

[Eric Sieg]

For background info:

When I asked Yvonne about the MUG game, she expressed interest with a 
preference for her month being January. I held off a bit on the MUG 
stuff due to wanting to circle back with people, understand actual 
sanction costs, etc. Once I figured that out better, the MUG schedule 
had Yvonne's game in April (which she is fine with) but she was also 
hoping to run one in January too if possible. I didn't feel like I had 
authorization for that (only authorized for 16) and wanted to wait to 
develop a plan for the remaining sanctions with feedback from the board. 
I also only have permission from the board currently to use 16 of our 24 
unit game sanctions and those are all allotted between 12 MUGs, 3 
Trifecta, 1 RR party, 1 Captain's Teams. Careful observers will note 
that this is actually 17 :) I don't know yet if the Round Robin counts 
against our limit of 24.

The 24 unit game sanctions seem like an asset we should use, so I'd be 
in favor of finding ways to use those last ~7 to benefit the clubs. 
Potentially just handing them out for clubs to use for their christmas 
party, exploring some other ideas like multi site unit championships, or 
maybe something else entirely. However, that seems like something to 
discuss with the board, come up with a plan, then share those sanctions 
out once we as a board know what we want to do rather than just 
sanctioning an extra game in January for Yvonne.

Full disclosure: I did provide Yvonne with one of the 2017 sanctions for 
her Christmas Party in December when she asked. I made that decision 
because 1) She was by far the most eager about the MUG idea, was quick 
to respond, and very enthusiastic, 2) All of our other 2017 unit games 
were further north and didn't provide much benefit to the southend 
folks, 3) They were about to expire unused. In retrospect, I wish we had 
made the same offer to all the clubs but I didn't think about it in 
time. It also was a learning experience for me with how the sanctioning 
process works and it took a bit to figure out the right place to do that.

No opinion on the picture idea. Maybe a tribute to Sharon and David 
Wright might also make a good subject for a SUN article at some point in 
the future :)

Eric

Tim White wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Received a call from Yvonne this afternoon, addressing several topics including her disappointment with not getting a unit game at her Des Moines club during January.
>
> She encouraged having David Wright's (i.e. The Sun editor's) picture added to the website, in addition to those of the board members -- I'm fine if JC / the board would like to do this.  However, if we do it we should also consider whether there is anyone else whose pic should also be added -- e.g. Sharon Erwin who goes beyond the call by (a) pre-duping the boards for our tournaments, (b) acquiring attendance data reports, by location of residency, for each of our tournaments and (c) tracking the data on unit trophy races.
>
> I alerted Yvonne that the 2018 summer sectional will be a two-day event at Kent in July.  She sounded quite pleased.
>
> Tim
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