Members Present:
Brent Smith
Maerrie Murphy
Warren Ryan
Angela Souders
Eric Souders
Bonnie Morin
Angel Roman
Gene Tipton
Ron Coyner
Meeting was called to order by Brent Smith
Maerrie Murphy reports— City parks require us to have Insurance.
First order of business was the talk of insurance for the group of Amtgard of Maryland. The best insurance is with Fred Dunn Ins.Chicago, Ill.
We need to re word the waivers on the field and the personal waivers to mainly state you play at your own risk. Ex…
Amtgard of Maryland, Duchy of Crystal groves, City of
Hagerstown and Amtgard Inc of El Paso, Tx will not be responsible for any injuries….
Ect.. perhaps raising the cost of dues $1.00 a month to cover the cost of insurance.
Gene Tipton suggests we get a copy of our finished product with blanks for land names where other lands can fill in the blanks to fit their personal information so they can also havea better waiver.
What Burning Lands wishes from us in order to make Kingdom…
Remake of the kingdom packet in hard copies to include….
timeline of CG with accomplishments, events, ect
group numbers and event numbers
sign ins donations to which 501c3 and how much, to who and when, include demos
newspaper clippings, including what we do for Amtgardwhat groups we help out, big brothers, CRS, ect..
Accomplishments like mummers parade
Test play and mission statement
NO corpora until we get Kingdom
Insurance
CG Website
We can also change our website to one with our own domain name.
It costs 10.00 A month for unlimited people access.
Easter Seals Donation
Warren Ryan tells how Francis Ryan gave the check to Easter Seals in front of a Senator and many others.
Angela Souders talks about CitiBank
Citibank has a grant if you work there and spend 50 hours or more to a place that has 501c3 charity, they will donate $500 to that charity. The restrictions are they will donate only $500
per person. So if we have 5 people putting it in we can get $500 x 5. This is for 501c3 Only
Toys for Tots and Adopt a Family
Maerrie suggests a family that is in need for an adopt a family.Ron Coyner asks can we donate money from our bank to the family since it is so close to Christmas. He suggests $300.
We need to call an all thing to vote upon it and we can havea dollar torney to make up the money.
We can also have a toys for tots as well.
Coronation
The new cooks guild will be preparing a turkish feast. May cost $100 - $150
Will be sitting on blankets so it is a bring your own blanket and pillows. Also own feast gear.We may have a small cost to enter.
Invite CRS to give us a demo on the lifepac.
The location may be in Maerrie and Brents apartment community room Or in the CRS community room.
Sewing Circle
made by Warren Ryan
Francis Ryan has been doing the sewing circle and paying $10 amonth out of her own pocket. WE can charge $1 to get in and have people sign in instead. This will help with out
monthly numbers and also help pay for the room.
We will vote on this in March. 2005
Voting Ages
Bonnie Morin Brings up that if a 10 yr old is dues paid they can vote but will be voting on who their parents wants them to such giving the parent two votes. Can we bring the voting age up to where they can have their own mind? There is a
discussion on the age, whether it be old enough to take the field or the age of 14 which is the age to take the field.
We will vote on it next BOD when we can have the by laws with us.
It is talked about that it will have to be worded a certain way
so that dues paid for children is paying for insurance, not voting.
More discussion on this next month.
Fund Raisers
Damion suggests car washes in garb
Eric Souders suggests wrappping christmas presents at the Mall in garb
Brent Smith closes meeting.
