Gwinnett Senior Golden Games Meeting

Minutes for June 28, 2010

Today we had a wrap-up meeting for our Senior Games. We had a very nice attendance.

Bob thanked everyone for coming. He then said the invocation and led us in the Pledge Allegiance to our flag. The minutes from our Closing meeting were read and approved and Chris gave the treasurer’s report.

We were pleased with how he managed to get everything we needed for our event by budgeting his spending and still ending up with an estimate of $16,000 reserve for next year. Thanks Chris for doing a great job.

Bob went on to introduce us to a visitor from Hall County. Her name is Kelly and was interested in sitting in on our meeting. We also had a new member named Ruth, interested in learning more about our senior games. Welcome to both of you.

Our first discussion was about returning event managers. We will need to know if everyone will be returning for our 2011 senior games. We are hoping everyone will be able to fit it into their busy schedules. The new sports went over well and we would like to make them part of our program, giving medals to those that win 1^st, 2^nd, and 3^rd positions.

We also talked about our comment sheets and the many suggestions the participants made. We appreciate all your feed-back and hope we can incorporate them into our program. We discussed T-shirts. We may get new ones for next year. We will discuss it more in September. Next the meals; were we happy with a hot meal or would we rather go with salads or a cold meal for opening ceremony? Those that were at the meeting preferred the warm meal that we have been going with for years.

And the gifts, should we have a gift or not? It was suggested that we have a lottery, like they do at bowling. Those that bought a ticket would have a chance to win the money that was collected. Or a 50-50 ticket, where you would win ½ of the money collected. We really would prefer if we can find more sponsors. If you know of anyone that would like to donate to seniors to keep them active instead of them sitting home thinking about their aches and pains, please ask them to be a sponsor. Wal-mart may be ready to contribute this year, none of the stores gave us anything for 2010 but was a huge donor in 2009.

We also discussed the booklets. We may make them 6 pages instead of those that we made up in the past. The county use to help us pay for postage and the printing but now we are paying for it all. And another way to save money without cutting back is those that have won so many medals and don’t plan on keeping all of them, they could return some of them. That would cut down on buying more for our new winners. We have received so many compliments on our Senior Games Program that we really don’t want to cut anything out of the program nor do we want to raise the registration fee. If we do these few little things, it will help cut our spending.

Our next topic was Evening Events for Working Seniors. Gail mentioned that h2U tried it and didn’t have much luck getting more seniors out. We might want to discuss it more in Sept. Bob asked for more comments and suggestions but there wasn’t anymore. So he wished everyone a Good Summer and made a motion to adjourn the meeting. Chris seconded it.

REMEMBER, NO JULY AND AUGUST MEETINGS. SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER.

Sincerely,

Marie Hickman, Secretary