Centennial BASS Club of Northern Colorado

Business Meeting Minutes from October 6, 2009

Meeting was called to order at 6:47 p.m. by President Michael Hubbard.

Secretary Minutes from September 1^st were read and approved.

Treasurer report of Jr. Bass Club $ 343.46, CBC $596.79, and FMO

$ 3374.07 was read and approved.

Full Moon Open- A vote on the date for the 2010 FMO was tabled as we didn’t think we had a quorum. Next meeting we will decide between June 26^th, 2010 or July 24^th, 2010. Also, Sam’s Club gave a special breakfast for organizers of the local community events that they sponsor through grants. Bernie and Jo Stein attended with Bill Wilson. Sam’s showed their support for next year’s event (June 5^th, 2010) with a great big check for $500.00

Colorado Bass Federation- The third quarter BOD meeting (scheduled for Durango) was cancelled. The fourth quarter meeting is sponsored by our own CBC and will be held at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Loveland on Saturday, November 7, 2009. Food will be rounded up by Bill Wilson.

Junior BassMasters Club- Frank Villa reported that two of our Juniors qualified to move up the ladder by placing at the State Championship at Horsetooth. Chris Whittle and Cam Mills made the State Team. Congratulations to them.

Website- Nothing to report.

Habitat Report- Lonetree Dock Project is finally completed. The dock will be pulled and stored for the winter at the Lon Hagler DOW site.

Tournament Director- Pueblo pairings were briefly discussed by Robert Ross. In other tournament news, Ben Lind and Brandon White won the TBF State Championship, while Mike Hubbard and Steve Barbee are the alternate team coming in 7^th place. Steve and Mike also came in second at the 5280 Championship at Navajo last weekend. Mike also came in second in the co-angler division at the Central Open Tournament at Sam Reyburn in Texas. He and Frank filled us in on some of the Opens information.

New Business

Weekend Tournaments- participation is down and Frank had some suggestions on how we may keep interest of the non-boaters throughout the season. Much discussion followed about the possibilities, and perhaps changes that could be tried next season. Some of these ideas included:

a) Team tournaments

b) Reinstate the Day Money for weekend tourneys (best weight for that day)

c) Add points to the boaters score for having non-boater success

d) Fishing for separate pots (non-boaters have pot, boaters have a pot)

e) Making it easier for non-boaters to pre-register for these tournaments. Brian Spencer suggested this, and said it would have been a great help for the Norton Tournament because he couldn’t find out until just before hand that he could even find a travel partner. We will discuss these options at next meeting.

FMO Protest Rule change- Mike brought up a situation which had taken place at this year’s FMO which the steering committee had been studying about a late protest was made. We discussed whether we should change the time allotted for protests from the current 30 minutes after check-in. We would like to see this resolved next year by announcing the rules better at the boaters meeting with a better P.A. system, and assigning a special contact person to receive any written protest. It was mentioned that the designated person would be in special shirt/hat and at a designated table to assist anyone through the process. This will all be discussed at next FMO meeting.

Frank reported about $230 had been raised through contributions and a jackpot tourney held at Horsetooth for our reporter friend Jason Shedd from Windsor newspaper who was diagnosed recently with cancer.

Bill Wilson reminded everyone that we should be thinking about 2010 lake choices and voting on them at the next meeting.

Meeting was adjourned at 9:17 p.m.

Raffle followed.

Submitted by Bill Wilson for Perry Flot.