Thursday, November 10, 2005

October 30, 2005 minutes

BRAINERD LAKES BASSMASTERS
October 30, 2005, MEETING MINUTES

The Brainerd Lakes Bassmasters met Sunday, October 30, 2005, at The Old Waterfall. The meeting was called to order at 1:15 PM, by President Dan Doughty.

Present were: Kim Borden, Craig Paulson, Greg Kangas, Chad Ingvalson Keith Tuma, Jim Eide and Dan Doughty.

There was no treasurer’s report as the treasurer didn’t show.

Dan Doughty represented our club at the October Minnesota State Federation meeting. He reported on that meeting. He specified that we are required to acquire Sheriff’s permits for each tournament.

We need people to attend future State Federation meetings:

Saturday December 3, 2005 – Kim Borden
Saturday January 21, 2006 – Jim Eide
Saturday March 4, 2006
Saturday April 15, 2006

Keith Tuma and Troy Bruns each need to choose either the March or April meeting to attend.

We collected State Federation membership of $50.00 per person interested in joining. The club will pay the $15.00 ESPN fees of each person that pays their $50.00 State Federation membership. You must pay your State Federation membership dues the year prior to the year you are qualified to fish the State Tournament of Champions. (example: you have to be a Federation member in the summer of 2006 and qualify to fish the TOC in 2007 in order to be allowed to fish it). You have until May 1st 2006 to pay your 2006 membership dues of $50.00.

Dan explained State Federation membership. The number of anglers from our club who can participate in the state tournament of champions (TOC) will be determined by the number of members we have in the State Federation. The more members we have on our state roster, then the more who can fish the TOC. Dan explained it would be nice if our club could send a full team to state—at least four anglers plus an alternate. To do this, we would need to shoot for fifteen State Federation members. We have until May 1st to add new members.

Officers were nominated as follows:
President: Dan Doughty
Treasurer: Scott Roesner
Secretary: Kim Borden
Tournament Director: Jim Eide

Craig made a motion to cast a white ballot vote because there was only one nomination for each position. Jim seconded it. Motion carried. These position officially begin January 1, 2006.

We need to submit an accurate accounting of our lakes and dates this year. So we will try to accomplish this at our next meeting.

Other business for the agenda of our next meeting will include: Blind tournament and limiting our bags to five fish for every tournament.

Our next meeting is scheduled for Sunday January 8, 2006 at 2pm at the Old Waterfall, Highway 371, Brainerd.

Meeting adjourned at 2:08pm.
Respectfully Submitted,
Kim Borden, Secretary