CALL TO ORDER

The meeting was called to order by Vice President George Deel at 6:10 PM. George was acting President due to Chris Launer becoming a granddad and not being at the meeting. The meeting was held in the Belger Board Room. A motion was made by Chuck Haber to accept the February minutes, Lynn Lackey seconded the motion and the motion carried to accept the February minutes as written.

ATTENDANCE

Those present were: Glen Spielbusch, George Deel, Chuck Haber, Lynn Lackey, Larry Sparks and guest Larry Weigam and Bob Hess.

STANDING REPORTS

Publications Director: Lynn Lackey reported the newsletter is at the printers getting ready for distribution. Lynn also will have new directories with all members who have paid their 2005 dues.

Membership Director: There are still old members who have not renewed their memberships. Lance was absent at the board meeting, as he and Rosalie are cruising aboard an ocean liner in the Bahamas.

Activities Director: Glen reported March 12 is the Shriners Swap meet at the Woodlands. There is a tour scheduled for April 16 at the military base in Leavenworth. A sign up sheet will be available at the stated monthly meeting as their needs to be a good head count of those going on this tour. On Saturday April 2 Bob Hess will be putting on a seminar on painting. No actual painting will be done but he will go over all the various types of paint used for certain things on the model A and what works best. Bring any paint questions to the seminar along with your own chair. BYOC! Lots of tours being planned for upcoming months. watch for more information coming in the near future.

Treasurer’s Report: Chuck Haber presented the Treasurers report for February. The report shows income of $ 560.00 and expenses of $ 1763.46. A motion was made by Larry sparks that the report be accepted and was seconded by Glen Spielbusch. The motion carried and treasurers report was accepted.

Plain Old A’s: George Lopi (not sure I spelled his name correctly) is putting together a tour with a bus to go to Hershey Penn swap meet on October 4^th through 9^th. Tour arrangements are by Prudent Tours, Hillsboro, Kansas utilizing Kincaid Coach Lines. Call 1-800-658-1734 if you are interested. Fliers will be available at the monthly meeting. The tour will have some stopovers at some interesting sites along the way to Hershey.

Swap Meet: The swap meet is going as planned, Larry Weigum gave an overview of where the project stands and we are moving toward some final arrangements to firm up the event. Larry is asking for our families to danate some pies to sell at the Swap Meet. In the past this was a popular draw and is pure profit for the club. We have some really good bakers in our club so we need as many as we can to volunteer.

OLD BUSINESS

Christmas Party: Our deposit has been sent in to the Marriott (formally the Muelbach) for the 2005 Christmas party to be held at the same location as in 2004..

Parkville Pancake & Poker Run: A discussion was held regarding the Parkville event and tour. This was a good fund raiser last year and we feel it will once again bring our club a good return. Jim Spawn is working hard on this event to make it even bigger than last year. More will follow on this tour as the date becomes closer.

2008 MAFCA Regional Meet: The 2008 Regional will be hosted by our Heart Of America Model A Ford Club. Jim Spawn is working on a date for the event and said he would like to do some of the same things that was done in Springfield so it will reduce the manpower necessary to run the event. Bob Hess has volunteered to be a host chairman and George Deel volunteer to help out as well. More will follow on this at every board meeting.

Feedback on the Points system: One member stated she felt it was about time the members in the club stepped up and started paying their way to club events. A discussion was held on the points and it was tabled for a later meeting, but the point system will be used this year for the one dinner from the club. The second dinner will be a paid dinner to be paid by every member who has two or more at the party.

Other Items of old business not on the agenda: A discussion was held on the Sunshine committee. It is the understanding of the board that several volunteers came forward at the last monthly meeting and volunteered ot help Margie Bowes with the calling of members to report on health and other club necessities.

Chuck Haber brought up the web site and said it was continuing to receive lots of hits. He further said there were times he would receive special offers that can save the club money, but by the time we try to get the boards approval the deal might be gone. Larry Sparks made a motion that Chuck use due diligence and if a special offer came to the club that Chuck be allowed to make a decision based on the savings to the club money, take the appropriate action and report it to board at the next meeting. Lynn Lackey seconded the motion and the motion carried.

Other New Business: Lynn said we had 113 paid members and if the dues had not been paid prior to this meeting, the non-paying people would no longer receive the newsletters.

ADJOURNMENT

With no other business a motion was made and carried to adjourn the meeting. The meeting adjourned at 8:25 PM