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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2014-09-23 07:09 pm

BASFA minutes for Sept 15

BASFA Meeting 1259
September 15, 2014


Trey Haddad, President
Chris Garcia, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp, Sergeant at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at Coco's, 1206 Oakmead Parkway (Lawrence Expressway/101 Fwy), Sunnyvale

Began at 8pm
16 people attended

we established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1258 were accepted as 'abridged too far'

The Treasurer reported that last week we took in $0.50 in the regular jar & $10.75 in the party jar

There was no vice president report

The President had nothing fannish to report

The Sports committee reported that we all had a good time at the September 12 Giants game

The Party Committee reported that there will be a BASFA party at Convolution on Saturday

JC made a request that announcements and reviews be done with brevity


Announcements:
Fred announced that Convolution will be Sept 26-28 at the Hyatt Regency SFO

Carole announced that she will be in the Convolution Art show

[tall] Kevin announced that at 8am the hotel reservations open up for next year's Worldcon

JC announced that Nerdvana Podcast will be at Convolution & that he'll be on panels at Convolution

Bradford announced that he got a 4th good review on his book

Aatheus announced that it's national drive electric week

Geri announced that you should go to AT&T on Friday if you want an iphone on release day


Reviews:
Michael reviewed 'Here by Monsters' by Alan Snow as it started the boxtroll movement & was a fun read

Aatheus reviewed watching the China all-electric formula one race as worth watching on Fox Sports

Bill reviewed British transportation options & recommends the boat/train & taking out the deductible collision insurance

The Giants' outing was reviewed as wonderful

Geri reviewed South Bay Termite & they stayed back in their old place while the new is being tented & recommend Wiring by Woody, Ryan Wood = 408-393-6237 & say JC sent you


we did auctions

we adjourned at 9:37 pm

and the rumor of the week was: 'if brevity is next to impossible then your dictionary is very small'

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