Minutes
ACBL
Educational Foundation
Board of
Trustees
Long Beach, CA
July 19, 2003
President
Dudley Brown called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, July 19, 2003.
Present: Dudley Brown, President, Barbara
Nist, vice-president; Eugene Kales, Secretary; Geoffrey Cross, Treasurer;
Richard Anderson; Dewitt Hudson; Don Mamula; Bruce Reeve; Chris Shaw.
Also
Present: Jay Baum, ACBL CEO, Jack Zdancewicz,
ACBL CFO, Charlotte Blaiss, and Kelley McGuire.
The
minutes of the March 8, 2003 Philadelphia, PA meeting were approved.
Geoffrey Cross, Treasurer of
the Educational Foundation presented the treasurer’s report. (Exhibit a)
Carried unanimously.
Moved and seconded that the annual grant for the School Bridge Lesson Series (SBLS) program will be reviewed at each Fall meeting for approval. In addition to this annual grant, the Board of Trustees will be given a detail report at each meeting on the SBLS program.
Carried unanimously.
Moved and seconded that the President and Treasurer of the ACBL Educational Foundation be authorized to approve a grant request for the second half of 2003 to cover the anticipated SBLS based on information received from Management.
Carried unanimously.
a. EMBA Relaxed Rules Bridge Program is awarded $1,000
(from 2003) and an additional $2,500 (from 2004) will be provided if they have
matching funds.
Carried unanimously.
b. James Cohen’s Teaching Bridge in the Schools is awarded
$3,500 with the stipulation that the ACBL Educational Foundation receives
distribution rights.
Carried unanimously.
c. NJBL School Bridge Program is awarded $29,600.
Motion failed. Aye: 0 Nay: Dudley Brown, Barbara Nist, Geoffrey Cross, Eugene Kales, Richard Anderson, Dewitt Hudson, Don Mamula, Bruce Reeve and Chris Shaw.
d. ACBL Unit 505 Newcomer Bridge Club is awarded $520.00.
Carried. Aye: Dudley Brown, Barbara Nist, Richard Anderson, ,
Bruce Reeve
Nay:
Geoffrey Cross, Dewitt Hudson, Don Mamula, Chris Shaw.
e. President Brown and Treasurer Cross reviewed the ACBL’s World Computer Bridge Championship grant application between meetings of the Trustees. They awarded $4,000 to the ACBL’s World Computer-Bridge Championship Event for free software to be distributed to at least 100 ACBL Juniors and 50 juniors from other bridge organizations.
a. Review of Foundation Mission Statement: The Mission
Statement has been forward to the sub-committee that is reviewing the
Educational Foundation Bylaws. A report
will be received at the Board of Trustees Fall 2003 meeting in New Orleans.
Carried unanimously.
b. PBS Station – PBS matching fund grant was established by the
Foundation in 1992 with an annual grant of $25,000, subject to review and
approval at each spring meeting.
Moved and seconded that PBS
matching fund program that was established in 1992 is rescinded.
Carried unanimously.
Moved and seconded that
District 1 will be given up to $1,000 for their annual PBS grant for the year
2003. In the future all PBS applicants
will have to submit a grant application for further funding.
Carried unanimously.
Moved and seconded that
Article II of the ACBL Educational Foundation bylaws be amended as follows:
ARTICLE II – OBJECTIVES
1.
To
increase number of bridge players.
2.
To engage in educational activities for the purpose of instructing the
public as to the fundamentals, study, and play of contract bridge.
3.
To increase enjoyability of playing bridge.
This is deferred to the fall
2003 meeting.
A Bylaw review committee of Don Mamula, Chairman, Geoffrey Cross, and
Eugene Kales are appointed to review the bylaws and come back to the Trustees
with recommendations.
Carried unanimously.
a. Bridge at Schools proposal – Moved and seconded that the
proposal submitted by Bridge at School is accepted.
Motion failed. Nay: Brown,
Nist, Cross, Kales, Anderson, Hudson, Mamula, Reeve, Shaw.
Note: President Brown will send a letter to BaS thanking them for their proposal but that the Foundation has declined.
Junior Scholarship Fund –
Discussion was held on the way the funds were being used from the junior bridge
scholarship program, such as for promoting junior participation in the Pro
Tour.
Moved that Barbara Nist,
Geoffrey Cross and Bruce Reeve will meet with the scholarship committee to
discuss some of the issues the Foundation has.
They are to report back to the president when they are satisfied with
the clarification of the contract.
Carried. Abstain: Bruce Reeve
b. Our Bridge prints – moved and seconded to defer to the Fall 2003 meeting.
Carried unanimously.
Moved and seconded that the
Educational Foundation forms its own audit committee and that its charter be
brought to the Trustees at the Fall meeting in 2003.
Carried unanimously.
Moved and seconded that
Bruce Reeve, Don Mamula and Chris Shaw are appointed as the audit committee.
Carried unanimously.
Moved and seconded that the
Foundation Treasurer is authorized to send to the ACBL CFO the consensus view
of the charges for 2004.
Carried unanimously.
The meeting adjourned at
12:00 noon.