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Board Members Present: Hal Gensler Norm Janoff Bill Rowell steven finkelstein Board Members Absent: Diane Bailey David Bluestein Sandra Fontaine Megan Powers Guests: None The meeting was called to order at 6:08 pm at the Glendale Library. Minutes from the January 2008 meeting were not approved as submitted, due to an insufficient number of board members present to constitute a quorum. Old Business Volunteer Report: David was not present but had previously provided an eMail report that all of his Desert Classic Marathon volunteers were quite happy with their ARR Bucks and T-Shirts. Registration Report: Sandra was not present and there was no report. Special Activities Report: Diane was not present and there was no report. Finance Report: Hal will provide his report under New Business in the year-end report. Membership Report: Norm reported that the current membership totals as of 18 Feb were 1,376, which is only11 less than last month’s total. Clothing Report: Megan.was not present but had previously provided an eMail report. She will purchase the X-Cart software in March. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee so if this software won’t work for us, she’ll return it before the trial period expires. ACS Peoria Relay For Life: Bill advised the board that the Team ARR web page is up and running and requested that we add a link to this page on the ARR web site. Thanksgiving Day Brochure Quote: We are still waiting for David to provide a ROM quote from his source. Hal reported that our current source has greatly increased his price and that is why we’re looking for an alternative supplier. February 11th Convention Run: Steve reported that the Boston Scientific National Convention 5k was held at the Westin Keirland. We timed this event for RacePlaceEvents. There were 540 runners and we lost 5 chips (which they were billed for). RacePlaceEvents may need to use us for additional races as they do not yet have the ChampionChip timing capability. Heart -n- Sole Run: We will time this event this Saturday, 23 Feb. Registration numbers are much lower than last year due to less than optimal advertising and the online registration process. Litchfield Park Run: We will time these 5k and 10k races next Saturday, 01 March. This year we will use two timing systems to minimize results confusion between both races. Andre House T-shirt Donation: Steve reported that Derek Webber of Andre House has advised us that they would prefer to have dark-colored shirts (most of ours our light-colored) and that Derek is not really interested in being the liaison between the club and Andre house. So right now, it’s not clear what the outcome of this will ultimately be. As it turns out, Sole Sports donates their used shoes to Andre House and they might be able to act as our shirt liaison as well. Desert Classic Marathon: Hal reported that we had about a 50% increase in participation and that the t-shirt costs also almost doubled. Awards also almost doubled. However, the bottom line still produced an increased revenue over last year, by about $500. New Business Year-End Financials: Hal provided a written report for 2007. We had a year-end cash-in-the-bank total of $29,760 and $46,196 in CD’s. Including everything, our year-end assets total was $187,025. Our year-end liabilities totaled $19,230 which results in a total equity of $167,795. Comparing the annual income statements for the past 3 years, we showed a 2005 net income of $2,604; a 2006 net income of $25, 967; and in 2007 we had a net income of $32,037. A detailed breakout of 2007 ARR race income showed a net revenue of $39,770 from 17 races. That represents an increase from 2006, when our net revenue was about $32,000. A detailed breakout of 2007 income from races we timed and for which we rented equipment showed a net revenue of $13,844 from 18 races. 2007 registration statistics from 12 ARR races (including Summer Series) shows that 43% of runners pre-register via a paper process, 30% pre-register via active.com and 27% register on race day. 2007 race day no-shows totaled 16%. Luck of the Draw Drawing: Hal shared his concern that, last year, Sharon assumed the lion’s share of the burden in obtaining the drawing items that were donated and that this year she is no longer on the board. We agreed that Hal should approach Sharon to see if she would be interested in spearheading this task again this year. Also in an effort to reduce the effort somewhat, we will limit the total number of donated items to 15 (last year we had about 25). TriGear Presence at ARR Races: The presence of these folks at the Desert Classic Marathon may have detracted from our overall clothing sales and there was some additional discussion that TriGear has expressed a desire to be at all of our Summer Series events as well. We agreed that they will be allowed to participate in future ARR events, but we would request that they not sell anything at these events. On-line Membership Survey: Megan previously provided an eMail summary of the results to-date. 45 people responded to the survey (over 1,000 people were contacted) and the overall input was mostly positive. We will need to further analyze the detailed results and then discuss what changes, if any, could be made to help expand our membership. 29 March Anthem Race: We will chip time this race for 4 Peaks Racing. They expect about 800 runners. Jan 2009 Yuma Marathon: We have recently been approached to stage both a full and half marathon the weekend immediately after PF Chang Rock-n-Roll. We provided a ROM price and the organizers would like to continue to pursue our involvement. Brianne Showman PT, DPT: Ms. Showman would like the opportunity to address the ARR general membership and discuss injuries, injury prevention and the importance of physical therapy if injuries occur. While our club meetings typically don’t lend themselves to this type of “presentation”, we agreed that steve should contact her and see if she might be interested in speaking to the assembled crowd during a group run with Road Runner Sports. The meeting was adjourned at 7:45 pm.