[SBU Board] Feedback Re Website

[Raymond Miller]

I agree with JC that the board website should only liest board members.
And I think the idea of an award for those who do exceptional volunteer
duty is a great idea.

Ray

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:05 AM, JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:

> For my part, I'd prefer that we keep a clean definition that the board
> page listing is for board members. Otherwise, we risk seeming biased in who
> we do and don't include, as well as subjecting people doing us kind favors
> to the scrutiny and random questions we all get. We have tons of volunteers
> that help make things great in the unit, who are not on the board. What
> about people who help with setup/teardown/hospitality?  And Jeff, who still
> manages the mailing lists for us?  the printing company cutting us a great
> rate on newsletter printing/mailing?  Etc.  It quickly becomes a long and
> unwieldy list.
>
> Part of the purpose of the photos and listing is to make the board visible
> to the unit, so that members know who to reach and contact with issues. I
> wouldn't want to subject Sharon, David, etc. to that scrutiny  when they
> are kindly doing the unit a service.
>
> I am thinking about adding some kind of awards/recognition area to the
> website, and recognition of members who serve the unit outside the board
> would fit well into that construct. I haven't figured out how best to fit
> that into the site yet, though. As a board, perhaps we should also consider
> offering some kind of service award to members who go above and beyond in
> service to the unit?  It could have some kind of pin/medal/certificate,
> handed out like the bridge award recognition.
>
> JC
>
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> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Eric Sieg <easieg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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