Board Meeting Minutes
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2025, 10:30 A.M.
CASINO BUILDING, ROOM 112
Approved 5/1/25
In Attendance: Murray Pounds, Bill Carmichael, Sarah Gregory, Susan Geeslin, Theresa Ellis.
Call to Order - Meeting was called to order at 10:32 by President Murray Pounds
Approval of Minutes - A motion to approve the minutes from the January 9, 2025 made by Bill and seconded by Sarah. Motion approved unanimously.
FINANCIAL REPORT, TREASURER BILL CARMICHAEL
Financial Activity – Bill reported on fund balances for the club. $25,000 Live Oak Account, $7,500 Checking Account. $8,500 will go to Southern Pickleball for the upcoming tournament.
Membership – Bill reported that currently 175 members.
PICKLEBALL PADDLE BATTLE IV TOURNAMENT—April 12 & 13 at Mallery Courts There are 210 players for the tournament. (See Bill’s attached budget & spreadsheet for tournament.)
There are 13 sponsors (possibly one more), $300/$200/$100--$2,700 in Sponsor Fees
Discussed possibly having baskets of items instead of goodie bags, will decide in next couple of weeks between goodie bags or baskets. Discussed our checklist of items for the weekend.
T-shirt color—red?, decided whatever color works, Bill will decide when ordering.
We have lots of good raffles. Folks will be excited about the raffle items. We’ll put Susan’s orange tent with the raffles tables for easy point of reference for folks.
COURT DRYING EQUIPMENT Cost – Murray Pounds reported total cost for shed (including concrete pad) and VAPTR machine is just about $4,000. Machine has been used twice very successfully.
Storage – Will add some shelves to inside shed for more inside storage.
Access—About 12 people attended the first night of training for the VAPTR. Need to make sure anyone with access to shed and VAPTR knows how to properly do everything.
COMMITTEE REPORTS Competition Committee – not met
Social Committee – Bowling was a good night about 15 people attended. Bike Riding on Jekyll Island and Beach Party are next.
Social Media/Publicity Committee – Murray reported that everything is working out quite well with Stephanie for updating the website. He is going to put out another newsletter in April but after the tournament (Susan will do her Person on the Court interview).
OTHER MATTERS Elementary School Initiative – Murray reported the two week program at SSI ES with Kim Richardson, PE Teacher, was a huge success. Taught grades 2-5, everyday for two weeks. We told Kim that if she wanted to do it again later in the spring that we could do that.
Murray reached out to Oglethorpe ES with Tom Lemmon, PE Teacher. Tom mentioned doing it the week of April 14 but Murray thought that would be challenging for us with the tournament that week. Hopefully they’ll come up with another week.
Parks & Recreation Master Plan – Murray reported that the Master Plan unfortunately has been squashed by the County Commissioners. They said the employee can do one but that will be difficult due to their daily duties. We want to encourage folks to respond to the County’s QR code regarding Park & Rec. We’ll put it on Facebook and ask folks to fill it out.
New County Commissioner—Bob Duncan is our new Island County Commissioner. He seems to understand the need for more courts on the island. Possible commissioners that would be allies are Bob Duncan (District 2), Walter Rafolski (At-Large Post 2), and Sammy Tostensen (District 1).
Shade Awning—Hopefully this will be done soon now that the parking situation is finishing up at Mallery Park.
Conflict of Interest forms—Susan remembered to bring hers. Everyone at meeting signed it. Need to get Mary, Suzi, and Peter to sign.
ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 11:26 by Murray.