Members,
Monday night I asked Chris Lloyd, Mark, Chris Taylor, Pattey and Tico to meet me at MaGerks for a short but important meeting. Unfortunately Paul was out of the state and Jimmy was not available.
I had a few topics I wanted to finish conversation with including this years ADA run. In the past two months great discussion has occured on the event. To be very honest we had changed our mind whether to have it or not about a million times.
Tico, whom asked to be in charge of the event had been trying to recruit past sponsors and had given us very few responses due to the economy. I had contacted the local vendors which I had used the past two years and they even advised me that they would not be able to contribute very much this year.
This left the board with some awful decisions to make. We had thought about canceling it a month ago but decided to give it some more time.
With the lack of sponsorships we had decided that maybe it would be better for the club to cancel and not have the event not turn out very well this year. With the club being new and being totally revamped this year we have made some great strides and we do not want to start a event that we are not totally capable of making a great success.
The purpose of me calling this meeting was to make sure the everyone was on the same page. I had asked Chris and Pattey and the Alpha Omega club to participate so I felt it necessary to have them there. Paul and Jimmy had been contacted and their opinion was gotten.
I had gotten this response from Tico:
I would rather just cancel it all together. It's a shame too, we were just getting somewhere, got Natioanl advertising space on the ADA page, have a great relashionship with the people of the ADA center in Baltimore, but the lack of participation from members, the economic changes this year have brought us all as not been helpful to the cause. Everyone is pinching penneys, includeding me. I wonder what ever happend to those individuals that told me the new changes will be good for the cause and we could delegate the various jobs to other members and have a more effective outcome. What ever became of those guys
So when Mark and Chris arrived we discussed what they felt and got some feedback from Chris. When Tico arrived we advised him of the decision...
On the bright side the group of us made some great decisions about the party we are having for you the members and picked some great gifts.. Mark's wife Dawn and Tina contributed alot to the food selection and assured us GUYS we needed help with that.... So I hope all of you can make it...