APRIL 2018 BEACON

NCYC Regular Meeting Minutes

8 February 2018

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ABYA Report P/C Pat Carroll Reported on last Monday’s ABYA meeting. Guest speaker was Luke Clyburn Captain of the Pride of Michigan and the Noble Foundation. Talked about research done on the Great Lakes from many years back. Next month’s speaker will be from The Clinton River Water Shed Council. Passed out surveys in regards to having lights in the North Channel for safer nighttime navigation. Survey available on their website. July 14th is Veterans Day at Idle Hour. ABYA has ½ off Detroit Boat show tickets. They will have a booth there and looking for NCYC pamphlets for ABYA to hand out at the boat show. If interested, NCYC members can work at the ABYA booth, contact ABYA Commodore Ed. ABYA Spring Rendezvous is All Received thank you cards from Larry and Adrienne Gierlowski and from the family of Norma Riehl. CURRENT BUSINESS Activities – Tom Martin Club made $6200 from activities for 2017. Club House – Tom Altobelli Located gas valve and ignition switch for gas stove in the kitchen and also getting a set of knobs. Planning on having an estimate to replace the 80 sq. feet of floor in kitchen by ice machine that constantly gets wet from removing ice from the machine. Plan on sloping the new floor into a drain. Also, Contacted Comcast for their annual audit for cost. They found treasurer email account had been disconnected. Need to alert Brian to get the password changed. Our cable boxes and controllers are old. Working on getting updated ones. Randy had question about getting natural gas from a gas company (i.e. Consumers Energy) instead of the parking lot LP tank. Darryl indicated this was investigated in the past and the cost was very high. Scott to reinvestigate this option to see if cost has come down. Harbor & Grounds Scott Greenfelder Tom’s attempting to contact Tom Stackpoole to see about taking care of the club grounds for 2018. Tom was approached by several members at the Ball with concerns about the steel poles in the harbor that are unprotected. Will look into this. Also request made to put 50-amp electrical service on the end of D dock (Robison side). Also a few 50 amp receptacles on A dock need repairing. Do we have a club electrician? Answer was members with electrical experience typically step up to conduct this work. Membership Debbie Siwek Deposited $90,525 from membership dues. Discussed a situation with a member who did not meet his work weekend obligation last year. Sent in dues for the 2018 season, but was informed he owed for not working weekend last year. Member suggested he just put the $700 dues toward what he owes for not working his weekend and resign in good standing. That way he can visit the club frequently as he has many friends that are still members. Debbie will get with member and work out payment to allow for resignation in good March 9 th – 11 th . Correspondence