Location: Big Guys N49 49.649 W097 06.356
Start/Finish: 8:05 pm – 9:30 pm

Committee Present: Steven (ertyu), Brian (grnbrg), Tobey (3Ts&aG), Roger (The-Stuntman), Peter (Peter and Gloria), Scott (Lizardo), Jen (ava_ad0re), Dani (dani_carriere), Daniel (Master Instigator)

Committee Absent: None

Members Present: Spongebob_family, TurdleEggs, Capt_Redbeard, Cherry_Pie, Spaceman_Baz, Skyhawks, Kabuthunk, The_5_Seekers.

Committee Member Reports

Brian (Vice-President):

• Club crests to give/sell to members
  • $35 setup fee
  • $1 per crest
  • Sell for $3 or $4
  • Milestones
  • How much do we want to pay?
  • Which milestones?
    • 100 (white)
    • 250 (bronze)
    • 500 (silver)
    • 1000 (gold)
    • 2000 – when necessary
  • And what will they look like?
  • Do we give existing members crests for milestones already passed?
  • The logo
    • Square/rectangular logo – approved by everyone
    • Text or no text – majority voted for text
    • Text voted to read “Manitoba Geocaching Assoc.” as opposed to just “MBGA”
    • Majority voted in favour of coloured logo
    • Chevrons – majority voted for curved as opposed to rectangular
• Bingo
  • We don’t qualify for Manitoba Sport
  • Community Services Council seems more doable
  • We’ll wait until we’re reasonably sure we’ll be accepted, i.e. sometime around April, as reapplying is difficult
• GPS Central would to purchase a banner ad for $20 per month on the website
  • There is the option to get merchandise instead of cash, but for the first while we’ll stick with cash
  • Need to work out the billing arrangements, i.e. all at once, quarterly, etc

Peter (Treasurer):

• Paid loan off
• $67.26 in Chequing
• $99.75 with PayPal

Scott (PR and Communications):

• Article with an Interlake newspaper to be published, after Inwood event
• Need official receipts
• Reimbursing for travel – mileage reimbursement (40 cents per mile), if an overnight stay is involved, the people sponsoring the event pick up the tab
• Park adoption – waiting to hear back still

Steven (Website):

• New website is up and running
• Imported all of our old users
• Have over 200 members
• Deleting members who haven’t logged in for a while – the list will eventually be cleaned if required

Tobey (Events):

• Has enough prizes
• No responses yet for Christmas
  • Need to have a restaurant that can accommodate approx. 100 people
  • Or possibly could use the church again, and have it catered or potluck

Roger (Training and Workshops):

• Article appearing in the Interlake Spectator
• The seminar in Inwood went well
• Put together a package for training sessions, i.e. Do’s and Don’ts, How to’s, etc
• Will keep a log of mileage
• Needs a receipt book
• Met with people from Manitoba Walks & Trails
  • They want to incorporate geocaching
  • Gave a list of “geo spots” and maps of the TransCanada Hwy
  • They are thinking of doing a contest – i.e. find at least 1 cache in each of 17 sections and win a GPS unit
  • We can still put caches of our own along the trail

Daniel (Past President):

• Forum – has been having some intermittent errors, tweaked
• Forum members are not necessarily MBGA members, so he has had to cross-reference with the membership list.
• Should people who don’t have an MBGA account see the MBGA section? No.
• Still willing to approve for special access
• Will delete people who haven’t logged in for a year or more

Danielle (President):

• Do we refill the Youth Liason position? No
  • Jen will look after the Kid friendly cache list
  • Kids activities – fall under Event Co-ord
  • Teal did a great job and we’re sad to see her go
• Provincial Parks Document
  • Getting closer to a final draft
  • Read through, make any notes and email feedback to Danielle asap
• Adsense
  • $66.00
  • Each click ~ 21 cents
• Contact with the President of the Minnesota Geocaching Association brought up a few issues
  • Private property – approval should be stated in the cache description
  • Cache placement quality
  • Do we want to, as a committee, police caches that are on private property, etc? No.
  • CITO
  • Cache of the month? Lists of recommended caches? Favourite lists? Steven can do a page of bookmarked caches for MBGA.com
• Hasn’t heard back yet from the Leisure Guide

New Business:

• Manitoba Geocoin? Brian has an idea for one – a sun compass, with a hole in the middle, which you can use with a toothpick, etc to make it actually work.
  • Trackable
  • What other design on the front side? Red River cart suggested
• Charging for training?
  • Less than 10 people: $40 to $50, plus mileage, plus incidentals. Above that, $2 per person more
  • Average time is about 2 hours of training

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