What's your guess???

Here is my agenda for the meeting I was in charge of this evening...


1. Welcome
     a. see written page
     b. Be sure to enter the drawing for one of five $10 gift cards
2. Membership Updates
     a. Plans to increase memberships
          i. We will have a flyer going home with all students in d11 this spring advertising our pool
         ii. Doing some “give away” on the Internet to get the word out on the pool
     b. Change in “Adult Couples” to include “2-person”
     c. Reminder of “family” rates being $325
3. Manager Updates
     a. See written page
4. Budget Review
     a. New pump for main pool was voted on by board in May 2010
          i. Pump was replaced for $3600
     b. NO discussion! Bylaw #11, Section 2 gives authority to BoD to approve
5. Work Days
     a. ALL Saturdays in May
     b. Benefit to general members who volunteer to help “open” pool
6. Board Member Responsibilities – General Info.
     a. Reminder, from bylaws, of responsibilities
     b. Clarify that Manager will be one of the “active” 9 board members
     c. If you want your voice to truly be heard and acted upon, join the board!
7. Board Member Elections
     a. Follow normal process for volunteers, voting, and selection of:
           i. Up to 8 “active” members
          ii. Up to 3 “alternates”


These are my notes (OK not notes, more my speech since I have to write every thing out)

• WELCOME

Thank you for being here to support the pool. We are looking forward to a great season this year. As you might have noticed there are only four Board members here this evening. Without going into any details, you do need to know that last summer and early fall of 2010 there was a big shake-up with your board; thus, the reason we are down to four members and no current manager. However, we ARE moving forward and are excited about VGRA’s future!

As a board we feel good about what has been accomplished to bring us back into an accurate financial and legal standpoint. We all want you to know that we are committed to YOU, the members, in making VGRA the best family pool in northeast Colorado Springs.

We desire to increase our membership, improve the communication, continue to have fun events, and get back into good standing with the neighborhood. We want there to once again be a long waiting list and people lined up to join! We are excited to reveal a new website and Face Book group, and have an email system set up so that board members can be reached with your comments or concerns.

You can be confident that we are on YOUR side, and we hope that you will choose to support the decisions that we’ve already made as well as ones we anticipate making in the future.

WE have a very full agenda this evening. The first five items on the agenda should go rather quickly as they are simply a review of information we the board felt the general membership deserved updates on.

Item number six on the agenda will take a little longer, but the bulk of this meeting will be spent on item number 7, which is the nomination and selection of our new board of directors.

We are grateful for the people that came early to share their comments. In order to insure that we have sufficient time to elect new board members, and allow them time to meet this evening, we appreciate in advance your willingness to hold your comments until after the meeting, or submit them on the comment cards provided. We can not promise to answer all questions this evening, but we will commit to sending a response out to the general membership by the end of April.

• Manager

As I mentioned before, VGRA is currently with out a manager. We as a board made the decision at the end of last summer to not renew Geoff as our Manager. The board has sat down and gone over what the manager has done in the past, and what we would like to see out of the manager in the future. We posted on several different Internet sites for a new manger. We had hoped to have a new manager in place by this evening; however we still have a couple more interviews to do. We will let the membership know as soon as a manager is hired

• Finances

Our treasury has provided a P & L and a budget for you to review. According to the bylaws in Article 11 Section 2, we do not need to have a vote on the bylaws unless it exceeds the previous years operating budget by more than 3%. We are happy to say that our budget for this year is actually under last year’s budget.

• Board Member Responsibilities

Read from Bylaws Article 6


So here is my question for you... How long do you think it took me to get through the first 5 agenda items??? And the pool's arch enemy was there trying to raise H-E-double hockey sticks!!! (Not trying to be mean, I kept it in the whole meeting and only said nice things to the person)