19-Apr-2006 minutes

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Minutes of GNCC General meeting – April 19, 2006

Meeting location- French Educational Centre, Suite 420-256 Wallace Street. The meeting followed a picture presentation by Debby Keith and Jim Kirby on a recent cycle tour to the island of Kauai.

Present- Dave Beer, Jim Kirby, Keith Brown, Debby Keith, Bernie Dunning, Nancy McInnes, Barbara Henoch, John van Beek, Michael Bean, Gay Cunningham.

1. Nanaimo Area Land Trust is asking if the GNCC would like to have a table at the Earth Day event at the Country Club mall Saturday April 22 from 11am to 4 pm. A table will be provided, a tent should be set up in case of rain. Jim and Debby will bring the tent and handouts/material about 9am for set-up. Barbara, Nancy, Dave, Keith, Jim and Debby volunteered to provide support thru the day.
2. Michael introduced what may be a final draft of a hand-out brochure giving information about the GNCC, it's goals, encouraging people to join the GNCC and get involved. All agreed the brochure looks very good, with several minor ammendments- the words "mailing address" is to be added in front of the address given on the brochure to eliminate the possible impression that the address means an office space, the font will be consistant, and the GNCC logo is to be eliminated from the front fold of the brochure. It was agreed to have 1000 copies of a black and red version made at a cost of $350.00. Michael to ensure this to be done. It was also agreed to pay Johanne Galipeau $100.00 for her help in designing the brochure. Michael agreed to finalize this detail also.
3. Dave tabled the financial report. As of April 19/06 we had $777.54 in the bank account and financial commitments of $47.82 not yet deducted. We received $108.00 in memberships at the meeting also. Thanks to Dave for handling the treasurer duties, and for presenting a thorough accounting of the GNCC finances.
4. Dave agreed to clarify the issue of who currently has signing authority.
5. Keith Brown reports that there are 26 paid-up members as of tonight. There were also several members who renewed this evening also.
6. Routes and Technical issues- Keith is to pursue the question of the city providing their bike route map on a website..linked to the GNCC website? Barbara would like any ideas members may have regarding R&T issues brought to her attention so she can pursue them thru Richard Harding. Dave suggested that the E&N trail could use more consistent cleaning because of broken glass.
7. Nancy brought up the issue (agreed to previously at a GNCC general meeting some months ago) of having a member contact list available to members who agreed to this. It would allow a person to contact other members directly if someone wanted to arrange a bike ride, for example. Keith is to contact members who have email and put a note to this effect on the website also, giving members an opportunity, and deadline, to indicate if they do not want to be on this list. Immediately following this deadline, Keith is to email this list to all consenting members (with email). For those members who do not have email, Barbara volunteered to send out that list by snail-mail.

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