Victoria Bowmen Association

Board of Directors' Meeting

October 25, 2005

John Stubbs School

Victoria, BC

Present:    

Tracy Klat, Al Wills, Helena Myllyniemi, Jim Birtwistle, Gayle Miskosky, Samantha Miskosky,

Regrets:

Greg Birtwistle, Mary Wills, Bruce Somers, Bruce Reed, Victoria Allen, Shirley Wong

Guests: Kevin Parkinson, Jacques Vanderbogen, Tim Smith

1.       Meeting called to order at 1912 hrs.

2.       President's opening remarks: Al Wills chaired in Greg Birtwistle’s absence.

3.       Correspondence:

4.       Business arising from the minutes:  None

5.       Correspondence:

- Warran Buck re 06 membership (referred to new business)

- Cowichan Bowmen appreciation for support of the BC Outdoor and Senior Games

- 3 emails concerning archery information all answered by the Secretary

- Juan de Fuca Recreation first indoor invoice $948.55 (paid by Treasurer)

6.       Reports:

6.1.    President:  No Report.

6.2.    Vice President: No report

6.3.    Past President: No Report

6.4.    Secretary: No Report

6.5.    Membership:    Membership renewals have been sent out. 2 renewals plus 2 new single and 2 new family memberships. Proposal for non resident archers Warran and Helen Buck approved

6.6.    Tournament:     Attached, new tournament schedule presented

6.7.    JOP:     No JOP due to teacher's strike, New Commonwealth Pool lessons starting Nov 14. Still a concern with the basketball net protection.

6.8.    Treasurer:    Balance Sheet / Profit & Loss Statement presented

6.9.    Junior Rep: No Report

6.11.  PR: No Report. deferred to new business

6.12.  3-D/Bowhunting:  

7.      New  Business

7.1     Fund Raising: Gayle presented a proposal to fund raise by selling packaged salmon. She suggested we pre-sell the first case, which would fund purchases of subsequent cases. M Gayle S Jim B Carried

7.2     A presentation was also made on other initiatives, which will be discussed by the full board at the next meeting.

7.3     Halloween Shoot: Samantha presented her plan for a Halloween shoot on Sunday $5 fee / novelty target and music

7.4    Discussion on difficulty for compound bow shooters to get their arrows out of the indoor butts, Jim will investigate the use of butts and will experiment with bringing an animal indoors.

7.5    Honorary memberships were conferred on Gayle Miskosky and Janis Roberts.

There was discussion on the selling of archery equipment by members of the club. The club cannot be held accountable for individuals not delivering goods as promised, however there was a feeling that these practices should be discouraged and new members should be advised not to put a deposit on any items rather only deal in COD transactions.  This will be added to the next newsletter

8.       Disbursements: 

    - Tracy fees for tournaments, Samantha funds for Halloween shoot, Sophie Commonwealth Pool lessons, Cliff Commonwealth Pool, arrow repair, lessons.           

10.     Next meeting:    Monday, November 21st, 2005, 1930 hrs    Victoria Bowmen Clubhouse

Meeting adjourned at 2040 hrs.

/aw

Tournament Report

October 25, 2005

Next years tournament dates are:

FITA Star

April 22/23

May 20/21 or 27/28  ***Depending on the Canada Cup Date***

June 24/25

July 22/23

Sept. 9/10

Oct. 14/15

Canadian 900 Round

May 14 Queen Victoria

June 25

July 23

Sept. 16 Club Champ.

Canadian 1200

Aug. 20 or 27        ***Depending on BC Outdoors***                

Cost to register

FITA Star        12 @ 40.00 = 480.00

900 Round     4   @ 25.00 = 100.00

1200 Round   1   @ 25.00 =   25.00

Total                                          605.00

GST                                            42.35

Total paid to FCA                   647.35                     

 Tracy Klat

Tournament Director

J.O.P. REPORT OCTOBER 25th 2005:

We have not been able to use the gym because of the Teachers Strike. Now that it is over we can get back indoors. I have phoned and divided the kids into three groups. They can only come in of the one groups. Group one, Saturday 9:00am to 11:00am is full with 24 kids. I can not take anymore in this group. Group two, Saturday 11:00am to 1:00 and group three, Thursday 7:00pm to 9:00pm have room.

I’ve been asking the club for an honorarium for doing JOP. I do not want to go on Social Assistance.

Commonwealth Place
November 7th is the last class. The next class starts November 14th.
I’m concerned about some of the butts at Commonwealth. We have had arrows rebound back at the kids. It is only a matter of time before someone gets hit with a rebounding arrow. One butt has a hole in the middle and once the kids find it they try to shoot though it. This takes the fletches off. The Basketball has a cover, butt it is short by 4 inches. I’ve told them that an arrow could lilt and break the glass.

 

Cliff Allan