2/6/03 Club Meeting minutes

The meeting was held at Randy Rowley's home.  Two officers, six active members, three inactive members, two guests, and three youth members attended (16 total participants).  The meeting featured a shrimp boil prepared by Randy.  The video "Aspen's and Antlers" was shown.  Derrich Pollock led us in a devotional.  Prayer requests were taken.  Derrich Pollock led us in a prayer.  A discussion was held on upcoming events.

A discussion was held on possibly adding another chapter (Dallas) to the Club.  A gentleman (Brian McMullen) saw our add at texasbowhunter.com and expressed interest in starting a chapter.  The membership discussed how to handle votes in the eventuality of an out of town chapter.  The members of that chapter would, in all probability, not be able to make our Club meetings and vis-a-versa.  Our current voting system (a vote at a Club meeting is an action of the Club) would have to be modified to be fair.  One possibility is to  conduct votes at Club meetings and then follow with a e-mail/mail vote for the rest of the membership that was not able to make the meeting.  The matter was tabled for now.

A discussion was held on the practice of giving trophies to the first, second, and third place winners at Sporting Clay Shoots.  The following facts were presented: Since the implementation of trophies in 2002 the attendance at shoots went up 44% (over 2001), the attendance for 2002 was our highest ever (46 participants), trophies cost $92.00 a year, and a brief e-mail poll showed that the implementation of trophies did not influence any respondents decision to attend.  Ron Denison made a proposal, via e-mail, to discontinue the trophies.  The proposal received a "second."  A vote was taken.  Seven members voted to discontinue the trophies.  One voted to continue the trophies.  The proposal passed.