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<DIV>I agree. Good thoughts, JC and Ray.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=raysmiller@gmail.com
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 11, 2018 12:21 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [SBU Board] Feedback Re Website</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>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.
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:05 AM, JC Chupack <SPAN
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<DIV>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.<BR><BR></DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 4:47 PM, Eric Sieg <SPAN
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">For
background info:<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Folks,<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>I
alerted Yvonne that the 2018 summer sectional will be a two-day event at
Kent in July. She sounded quite
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