May 2006 VTAACC Minutes

Attendance
Cheryl Klein, Jennifer Jones, John Glass, Chris White, Linda Cooper, Craig Dennis

Wine Tasting

  • June 3rd, at Dolce Vita in NoDa. 6:30 or 7pm.
  • There will be a speaker – Seth is working on it
  • We need help with auction items. As of now, we only have 7 items, plus some football tickets. If you can help at all, please let Lauren Spahr know. She will be contacting donors from last year as well.
  • Tickets will be priced at $25 a head, or $50 a couple.
  • 3 red wines, 3 white wines and appetizers will be served

Scholarship

  • Maddox says interviews will happen soon
  • Deadline is June 3rd
  • Once the scholarship is awarded, we want to get the winner published in the Observer

Community Service

  • Only 8 people can volunteer now, since date has been set; goal is 25 people
  • Jon Purdy said he could recruit more
  • Email needs to go out next week regarding event

Golf Tournament summary

  • 20 teams, 86 players (record number!!)
  • Got great comments
  • Made profit of around $1,000
  • Did Fox & Hound check show up??

Recruiting

  • Pops in the Park dates have been set, June 25th looks like the best date for our wine and cheese event there
  • Starts at 8/15 – people get there around 7
  • Bring VT blankets, orange & maroon balloons, wine, appetizers
  • Need help getting the word out!!
  • Seth is working on the email list (converting it from PDF to excel)

Financial Update

  • Paypal situation, using the not-for-profit option, we will save money. It will be $20 per month, plus normal transaction fee of 2.9%, plus 30 cents per transaction
  • Once we are sure this process will work, we will cancel the old system
  • Online store – need a specialty item for the CLT chapter. Ideas discussed:
    • Tshirt
    • Embroidered pant
    • Cheryl will check on price of khaki’s at Belk, where she can get a 20% discount. Linda will find out prices of the vendor in Outer Banks who could possibly embroider the pants
    • Leather checkbook covers, embossed (perhaps we can buy the tool to emboss our logo, and put it on many items??)
    • Leather cell phone covers, embossed
    • Rival t-shirt
  • Buying a season pass for the bus, instead of just one night for one game? Perhaps this is not the season for it, because of the poor schedule. Next year we will re-evaluate

Next meeting – June 7th, 6.30pm