The meeting was started promptly at 2:19pm by President Larry Heagy. We had our meeting at Larry’s Barn, 120 N Parkview St. Maryville, IL 62062. The new venue allowed everyone to bring their own drinks and Larry provided some vittles for us to eat.
16 members were in attendance.
Larry started off the meeting with a recap of the 2022 Season and stated the agenda for the meeting today. The items are to Expand Membership, Discuss Banquet, Discuss and Approve the Tournament Schedule and to nominate the Officers and Board Members for the 2023 season.
Ed read the meeting minutes from the last winter meeting on February 20, 2022. Approval of the minutes was by Carl and seconded by Rudy, all members voted for approval.
A discussion of the Club finances and the annual Club Banquet were made. Since the club did not want to continue to utilize the Gateway Center another much more economic venue was chosen. The banquet will be held on Jan 28th at the Caseyville Community Center, Ravenellis catering will cater the event.
The members in attendance were presented the proposed 2023 Tournament Schedule. An open discussing was made around the schedule. After the discussion several motions were made to change the venue and days for fishing. The motions were:
Vote to change the Pomme De Terre Tournament to a 2 day event again and end the sceond day at noon as was done in the past. The vote was 5 members to have a 1 Day event and 8 Members to have a 2 day event. Therefore the Pomme De Terre Tournamet was changed to Sept 16-17 ending the second day at noon.
A motion was made to change the Crab Orchard Tournament to Wappapello. The vote was 13 people to make the change and 2 members to not make the change. As a result of this Wappapello will be held on May 6, 20223.
A Motion was made by Bud and seconded by Will to have Wappapello a 2 day tournament the vote was a 6-6 tie and was turned over to the President as the deciding vote and the motion was not passed. Wappapello will remain a 1 day tournament.
A motion was made to change Wappapello, May 20, 2023 to a KY Lake – 2 day tournament. rocky made the motion and Bud Seconded it. The vote was 12 for the change and 2 opposed. Therefore we will fish KY Lake on May 20-21 ending at noon on May 21.
After the schedule changes were made in the above motions, Mike Anderson made a motion to approve the schedule as modified, seconded by Rudy. The motion passed by a vote of 10 for approval and 2 against approval. Ed will post a final schedule for 2023 on both the website and facebook pages. The new schedule is here: 2023 APPROVED tournament schedule
The Lets Go Fishing show was discussed. Member Bryant Stickels offered the club a 20×20 space at the show on the unused booth space from Razr Rods. We greatly appreciate this gesture and should any member need a new rod please discuss with Bryant or Joe who would be glad to get your business.
Russ mentioned if we could create some advertising around the club stance that we are accepting new members. Ed will create this documentation.
Larry recognized Ed’s efforts to keep the club running in his and Mike Vallinos absence during the tournament season. We all are looking forward to a sucessful 2023 tournament season.
Ed made anew EZ-Registration location on the club website to register for Club Dues and Tournaments. the page is: https://www.steelcitybassmasters.com/ez-registration/
Meeting adjourned at 3:08pm and several members stayed around and played Arlington Grens golf course on Larrys Golf simulator.
50/50 was drawn, Ed was the winnerfor which he promptly bought everyone a beer..
Nominations for Offices were:
Larry Heagy – President, Mike Vallino – Vice President, Ed Montgomery, Secretary Treasurer. All officers were nominated and a motion was mode to close nominations.
The Club Board member nominations were as follows for the 7 board positions.
Rudy Cardenas – Accepted nomination
Carl Gansner – Accepted Nomination
John Morris – Declined Nomination
Mike Anderson – Accepted Nomination
Will Schram – Accepted Nomination
Paul Davis – Accepted Nomination
Denny Beiter – Accepted Nomination
Russ Rensing – Accepted Nomination
Brian Carlson – Accepted Nomination
Marj Wilcoxon – Accepted Nomination
Frank Wilcoxon – Accepted Nomination
Bud Lyons – Accepted Nomination
Chris Rensing – Accepted Nomination
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