Executive Meeting (November 2021)

Minutes

Attending: Bill F, Simon L, Carolyn H, Don L, Victoria S
Via Zoom: Cindy P, Nicole S, Rinah K, Kazlyn B
Location: Bill’s residence

• Bill began the meeting @ 7:10pm
• Carolyn, Cindy and Nicole have receipts for some expenses
• Location
  • 2 Site Visits
  • Saanich Community Church Hall
    • Great central location
    • Separate area for new beekeepers
    • Kitchen area
    • Easy access outside
    • Drawback – no place to store equipment on site
    • Sound and projection system; use our own for lower
    • Rent is significantly higher than previous location
    • Would be 3rd Thursday of month
    • School has big parking lot, but blocked off at night.
      • Still some parking, but not huge
      • Royal Oak Shopping center is nearby
      • We could put school section with sign say “gates will be closed at 9pm”
  • Brentwood Senior’s Centre
    • Long way out for Western Communities
    • Price wise and facility wise it gives us everything we need.
    • Onsite storage is available.
  • Can we send a survey to members to get their input on location? Try and get it out by this weekend. Include address so people can determine distance from their location.
• Fees for 2022
  • New Memberships as of now should be for 2022
  • Motion to return to $32/yr by Bill 2 nd by Don.
    • Passed unanimously
• Elections
  • President, Secretary, Membership Secretary, 2nd VP up for re-election (2nd VP being vacated.)
  • Victoria, Cindy and Simon are willing to stay on in some capacity.
  • Bill Cavers has expressed interest.
  • Skill set for being on the executive is not the same as skillset for being a beekeeper. Interest and enthusiasm are most important.
    • Need to put it out to the membership that we need more interest.
• January Agenda
  • Back to the basics
  • Invite Derek and Heinz?
  • Inventions and Contraptions
  • Show and Tell
  • New Beekeepers – Introduction to beekeeping
  • Bob Liptrop available?
  • People will be wanting to purchase memberships at meeting.
• Exec meeting in December
  • Monday Dec 6 (via Zoom)
• Display Hives
  • Bill has one
  • Each of depots should have one
  • Don has Saanich Fair one
  • Could they be used on a rental/borrow basis? Yes
• Iotron
  • Alanna cannot do it next year
  • Anonymous $1000 donation has been made to the club
    • Should cover the extra costs for 2 trips if necessary
  • $15 for footprint of a box last year
  • $952 was the transportation cost last year.
  • 26ft truck was used.
• Honey for Queesto
  • Last year people gave 2 500g jars
  • Carolyn won’t go until the gas situation stabilizes
  • Nicole to email Carolyn’s request to those that went to outyards
• Meeting adjourned at 8:26pm