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Jocassee Trout Club Meeting Minutes
Date:
May 26, 2005
Location: Fatz Café (Greenville, SC)
Time:
7pm – 9pm
Attendees: Sorry if I misspelled your name also not
sure about the name for the two people with a question after them.
Ken Sloan
Bryan Lee
Lee Sakovich
Larry Essek
Jim Rudy
Jim Mayer
Warren Page
Myra Bullions
Scott Bullions
Barry Segars
Don Gibson
John Beard
Sam and Eva?
Sam Jones
Jimmy Williams
Matt McCreery
Shay Wistrom
1. Introductions
2. Agenda and April 16th Meeting Minutes distributed by Ken Sloan. Ken also provided a summary discussion
about what has taken place to date.
3. Jimmy Williams reviewed the by-laws with the club.
4.The by-laws were adopted and officially formed the Jocassee Tout Club.
5. Annual Membership dues were set at $25/year.
6. Website domain name was chosen to be jocasseetroutclub.org. Sam Jones has the action to reserve
the domain name.
There is a 15 dollar cost to reserve the domain name.
Annual fee for server is 80 dollars.
Preliminary
Web Site to be established by next Meeting (Sam Jones/Eric McCreery – Web Site is now up and running).
7. Election of Officers (per by-laws) was held via individual nominations and votes by show of hands.
President – Jim Mayer
Vice President – Matt McCreery
Treasurer – Scott Bullions
Secretary –
Jimmy Williams
8. Election of Six Board of Directors (per by-laws) was held via individual nominations and votes
by show of hands.
Zan Maddox
Jim Rudy
Warren Page
Sam Jones
Bryan Lee
John Beard
9. Scott Bullions will investigate the requirements for opening a checking account. He also recommended
a back-up for his position to access funds. Jimmy Williams will be Scott’s back-up. (Checking Account has been opened)
10. Open Discussion Topics
a. Need to advertise this club
to be successful and gain new members. Ideas to get the word out included car stickers, hats, jackets, fliers, shirts, website,
and of course word of mouth. Ken Sloan is going to look into the cost of these items. There is also a preliminary brochure
which you can see and print off from the jocasseetroutclub.org website. Everyone is encouraged to get this out anywhere and
everywhere they can to advertise (i.e. local papers, friends, family, sporting goods stores..etc). Please make sure that you
use a brochure with the new meeting date of Tuesday, June 28th. Zan Maddox was suggested as a potential resource to create
a permanent brochure for the club.
b. Jim Mayer has the clubs support in talking to DNR and Dan Rankin to see if they are
interested in participating and to get feedback on how we can help them.
c. Trout Tagging may be needed to gather data
about the fishery and provide feedback to DNR. We would need to produce an internal database and develop our own tags to be
most effective. Ken Sloan offered Jocassee Outdoor Center to be a hub for this activity if launched off.
d. Could possibly
have a benefit trout tournament to raise revenue for the club
e. Recommendation for the JTC (Jocassee Trout Club) to purchase
a few fish bags for tournaments to help with catch and release efforts.
11. Next Meeting was scheduled to be June 21st but was moved to June 28th as the location was not
available. The meeting will still be at Fatz and will start at 7pm and end no later than 9pm.
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