from:	Tom Leone <tgleone@gmail.com>
to:	"Bouthera, Leila" <Lbouthera@hotmail.com>,
"Burmann, Matt" <mburmann1@hotmail.com>,
"James - Graham, Lily" <dolliescharmcenter@yahoo.com>,
"Keillor, Melinda" <melinda.keillor@gmail.com>,
Kristin Leone <kmrusche@gmail.com>,
"Megill, Jennifer" <jennifermegill@hotmail.com>,
"Moser, Andrea" <andreamoser@comcast.net>,
"Rasulis, Mich" <mich@umich.edu>,
Ypsilanti Otters <ypsiotters@gmail.com>
date:	Sep 17, 2018, 8:12 PM
subject:	Meeting minutes from Otters board meeting

Here are meeting minutes from our Otters board meeting tonight, September 17 2018.  Please "reply all" with any corrections.

Attendees: Jennifer, Mich, Andrea, Melinda, Leila, Tom, Matt, Kristin, Lily

Kristin informed the board that the current bank account balance is $7,600 lower than it was one year ago, indicating that we are running a budget deficit.

Melinda informed the board that current enrollment is about 95 swimmers plus 17 on wait list and about 7 adults paid by check & manually signed up for water aerobics (compared to 101 swimers last fall).  Enrolling the wait list swimmers depends on hiring more coaches.

Melinda recently interviewed two coach candidates from EMU.

The credit union is being difficult about removing Levant from our account.  Melinda just obtained a note from him; if that doesn't work she'll ask him to go to the credit union and remove himself.

Tiffany wants to stop doing routine web site updates (she will continue working on special projects).  Melinda is pursuing a replacement.

Tom asked whether we can use the Willow Run address to get confirmation postcards from Google and Yelp (to get registered and improve our search results).  Melinda will check with Steve Burgess.

Jennifer reported that we have 7 new USA swimmers, but there is a glitch getting them registered.  She will investigate Team Manager and Meet Manager software issues on YOSC computer.

Matt has a meeting tomorrow with Taryn Reid - he will try to improve communications with YCS principals.

Andrea is collecting volunteer deposits; she needs an updated roster.

The board discussed fundraising options including Yankee Candle and swim-a-thon.  Everyone agreed that there are trade-offs with time and hassle involved versus funds raised; no final decisions were made.

Next board meeting will be 6:15pm on October 22 at the Willow Run pool.

