General membership 12-15-08

The meeting was called to order at 12:24 Joyce acted as chair.

The agenda was presented and modified to include a discussion on dales status and to include Myles request to appeal aboard decision

Claudia asks to add a guideline change decision. that is already on the agenda under section 7.

Wink made a motion to accept the agenda, Myles seconded passed.

The various board members came forward and each gave a short speech. Hector declared that he was no longer running.

ballot counting committee was selected.

Barb Winko, Annie Summers, Dona Hupp, Aaron the soldier and Karen Masbaum will be on the ballot counting committe

A motion was made by Jan that Annie be removed from the ballot committee based on her campaigning against Dave, Joanne seconded. The motion failed.

A presentation was given to advertise that people may wish to run for PC it is important.

Claudia presented guidelines changes suggested by the committee consisting of herself, Solaya, Bushie, Michele, and Barbra

In order to avoid multiplication of the same products there should be the same sort of rules for for artists as for food. This would prevent franchises.

Claudia wants to prevent a person who comes in to split into two parts and run twp stands.

First suggestion would be to eliminate partnerships.

The second idea would be to mandate that if a partnership broke down one partner would inherit the business and the other partner would have to start from scratch and jury in.

Claudia he has been in touch with the city and has a good idea of the process required to get guidelines approved.

We need to work on the waiver. A good lawyer can go around the waiver. She wants to reinforce the waiver to prevent law suits.

Some people wanted this motion delayed until we had more specific wording and time to think about it.

Wink suggested that this same group continue to work and present this in writing before the next general membership. Pam Pinholster seconded. Passed.

At this time Alicia levy presented a short seminar on conflict resolution.

Ryan made a motion to approve the minutes from 12 13 2007 (with the date corrected) and the minutes from 07-15-08 Pam seconded, the motion passed.

Ryan announced the cert of appreciation for board pc and the pier managers. He will pass these out later.

There was a question about the financial report, What are the festival supplies? These are the misc expenses that come up.

Joyce made a motion that we spend 200 on the Christmas party this was approved

OJ Dave spoke about the audit that we paid for this last year. Everything came up clear. This was done to comply with the lease and at the request of the city.

It was said that we don't need to re-vote the 15$ increase.

In the year we had a 15K increase is savings this year. Which is only a portion of the $160K that we took in and paid in expenses.

We have about 3 months reserve in savings.

It was suggested that we go up to $15 on Jan 1st and on June we drop back down to $10

Another suggestion was, based on the profit last year we could drop back to 10 at may.

We should make this happen every year automatically so we don't need to re-vote it.

Joyce made a motion that on Jan 1st we raise the nightly setup fee to $15 and in April or march the board will consider when to drop in back down to $10 seconded. Passed

Acting chairman Joyce introduced the discussion on Dales suspension by explaining the back ground . Dale followed with his perspective. there was a lengthy discussion.

Wink made a motion to uphold the boards decision was seconded and failed 13 to 23

A potion was made that dale is to be suspended for at least 6 months this failed with 16 in favor and 20 opposed.

Joyce made a motion that dale be suspended for 3 months month motion died due to lack of a second.

Leanne made a motion that Dale come back A.S.A.P and if he is drunk and or drinking one more time as determined by the pier he will be permanently expelled this failed 23 to 20

Ryan made a motion that the board decision stood. this is not a valid motion.

Jason made a notion that we table this and move on, wink seconded. The vote passed 18 to 2.

Myles objects that the board over turned the the general membership decision to not allow exact duplication. A product that copied his was approved. This board went against the general membership. there was a long discussion. Myles made a motion to overturn the decision the that board made to allow Hector to copy his product. the motion failed 10 to 17
 

Myles made a motion to allow Donna to sell shells. Wink seconded the motion. It failed 12 to 15

the new board members are read off.

they received the following votes

Jason Hall 47 board member

Ron Augustine 42 board member

Solaya Mirault 40 board member

Wesly Young 38 board member

Kristie Metcalf 35 board member

Mark Riggs 32 board member

Dave Sells 27 board member

Will Soto and Joey Smith 25 tie alternates.

Joe Bement 23

Jeep Caillouet and Melvin Surprise 10

Hector 7

At 2:46 joyce made a motion to adjourn Dave seconded, passed.