February Membership Meeting Postponed to Feb 24 7:30PM

Below is our agenda for tonight’s meeting.  I’m unsure if the dump from MS Word will mess up the formatting.

SSI Membership Meeting

February 24, 2021

<u>Agenda</u>

• Open Meeting
• Board Member Roll Call
  • John DeRosa
  • John Osborn
  • Steve Snyder
  • Jim Hopkins
  • John Lincoln
  • Don Grillo
• President – John DeRosa
  • Meeting opening welcome
  • Review/approval of meeting minutes (available on the SSI web site)
  • Covid-19
    • Hope everyone is well and will soon have their vaccine shot.
    • We still require masks to be worn at all times while at Sky Soaring unless practicing social distancing. Hopefully this will change soon.
  • Safety Initiatives Committee Report
    • Created a report on what safety initiatives that we have going on and sent to Costello insurance
    • Received positive feedback from Costello that this should help our insurance renewal.
  • Chicagoland Glider Council Seminar – February 27^th
  • Scholarships – CLGC and SSA available
  • Membership survey to be released during early March
  • Volunteerism
• Vice President – John Osborn
  • Finance sub-committee report
    • Engine rebuild fund $20K.
    • Promissory Note – $80K
  • New Member Coordination
• Finance – Steve Snyder
  • Engine Rebuild Fund
    • Goal: $33K-$35K
    • Current: $21,714
    • Donations and New Patron Memberships
  • Audit
    • Per the bylaws we need a yearly audit for the previous year (due between January 1st and the annual meeting in November)
    • Last one performed – 2017
    • Need a non-board member to assist with the audit
  • Tow pilots and instructors
    • Dues offset reduction to 50% earned in 2021 for dues payable in 2022
    • SSA and CLGC dues ($85) to be paid
  • Secretary – Jim Hopkins
    • January’s membership meeting minutes are up on the SSI web site.
  • Maintenance Chairman – John Lincoln
    • Glider annuals
    • Tow plane annual
    • Other ongoing repair work
    • Runway “widening” work
    • Winch mule gas line repair
    • New front gate lock
  • Flight Chairman
    • Blue Book
    • Policies and Procedures manual updates
    • Training syllabus
    • Safety
      • Safety reporting system
      • Safety officer
    • Winch Team Volunteer
    • GSO
  • Old Business
    • None
  • New Business
    • Instructor and Tow Pilot’s dues offsets reduction – open comments.
  • Close meeting

John DeRosa is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Sky Soaring Membership Monthly Meeting
Time: Feb 24, 2021 07:30 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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