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melchar ([personal profile] melchar) wrote in [community profile] basfa2019-07-16 03:18 pm

July 15 BASFA minutes

Minutes of Meeting #1509
Monday, July 15, 2019

Trey Haddad, President
Ken Patterson, Vice President
Dave Gallaher, Treasurer
Galen Tripp & Laser Pistol Packin’ Mama, Sergeants at Arms
Barbara Johnson-Haddad, Secretary
held at the Black Bear Diner, Milpitas

Called to order at 8 pm
22 people attended

We established a party jar

The minutes of meeting 1508 were accepted as 'already posted online'

the Treasurer reported that last week we took in $0 in the regular jar & $0.25 in the party jar

the VP had nothing fannish to report

the President had nothing fannish to report but did congratulate the Tonopah bid for winning the 2021 bid [July 2-5, 2021 - & that next year Westercon is in Seattle]

Dave G moved & it passed to hold auctions early - thus [tall] Kevin was birthday auctioned off [$10 to the secretary]

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Steven announced that his acapella singing group, Red Shift, will sing the national anthem at the Thursday Giants game this week

John O announced that Ohlone College is showing the 'Phantom of the Opera' for the next 2 weekends & that the production is very enjoyable, recommended & worth full price

Dave G announced that he has Christmas cacti to give away

REVIEWS:
[tall] Kevin reviewed his travels as nice, but hectic - that being Fan GoH was quite fun, but breaking down on the way there was an unexpected adventure & that getting to take part in a re-enactment of driving in the spike at the Transcontinental Railroad was fun & done with excellent pomposity

John O reviewed Season 3 of 'Stranger Things' on Netflix & 'Good Omens' on Amazon as both are wonderful & worth seeking out & reviewed the LA Apollo 11 extravaganza as done really well, Chris O also enjoyed it & recommends it

Ken reviewed the recent production of 'Catch 22' as well-done & recommended

Bill reviewed the weekend as full of incidents & he had a great time, while Carole reviewed their Nissan Leaf as it comes with a learning experience

Dave G reviewed the Sharks exhibition as fun to watch

Fred reviewed the Andy Warhol exhibit as worth seeing

Lisa reviewed 'Good Omens' as excellent

we adjourned at 8:45

Rumor of the week was 'There is a lucrative market for Standlees'