January 2012 - Board Meeting Minutes
Palm Beach County Beekeepers Association
January 2012 - Board Meeting Minutes
Palm Beach County Beekeepers Association
January 2012 – Board Meeting Minutes
James Chapman, Al Salopek, Sara White, Alexandra V. Kaufman
1-6-12 at 5:30 PM
Last month’s minutes approved.
Treasurers report: (amount available at monthly meeting)
Board Members spoke of getting Len some kind of a plaque or commemorative inscription to be given as gift to honour him for doing a great job being the President of the Association in 2011.
Old Business:
The constitution was amended and voted by Board members and additional association’s members raised the spending limits from $100.00 to $300.00.
Laptop computer and 3 hours of Quickbooks training was provided to Treasurer ,Sara White. (Cost of the first 3 hours $180.00).
Insurance: Acquiring liability insurance for the association to protect us all from personal liability. Currently we could be held liable if an injury were to occur when we take live bees to a function. We have received one quote from Texas Insurance and Financial Service, Inc. for approx $1,200. We are pursuing other quotes. Looking into Dept. Of Agriculture ,Farm Bureau, an insurance group.
The Rare Fruit Council approached the Beekeepers to get their participation in the showing of Vanishing of the Bees with visitation by the film’s director. The associations cost would be $150.00 which the board approved to bring before the members at the general meeting. This event has been scheduled for February 10th at 7:00 PM. To be shown in the auditorium of the education training center at Mounts Botanical Gardens.
Guest Speakers for January through April have been selected. However, Board Members are still soliciting additional speakers from May through December.
Gary Ranker and Malcolm Sanford of the FSBA need updates on the advertisement we will have in the January issue of the Florida Beekeeper and they need updated information on our April conference. Also would like to request that the FSBA promote our conference on their web site.
James led a discussion of whether we could improve our response to bee rescues by making them more regionally specific. Perhaps partner with the Treasure Coast Beekeepers and have links on our website that would direct the public to the TCB if a rescue is in Stuart or the St. Lucie region.
It was brought up that the membership list needs to be verified for accuracy by the members. Printing out the list produces very fine type face because there are so many columns. We are looking for a way to provide the list so when members arrive they can initial that their information is correct.
Sara is working on the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for registering for the Yahoo groups and will be finished with it by January.
Honey Bear labels designed by an artist have been printed and received. These are ready to be pasted on the honey bears and will be ready to be displayed at the South Florida Fair.
Brochures for the April conference and new business cards for the association have been printed and received.
Nucleus hive donated by Bud Grant is in Jim Chapman’s apiary. This will be moved to Pine Jog Environmental Education Center, in the future.
Nucleus hives for the April conference are at Brian Lunblad’s and will be ready by April.
Outreach requests:
South Florida Fair, open from January 13 – 29, 2012, attended by volunteers. These, are members of the PBCBA.
February 10th, 2012, showing the movie “Vanishing of the Bees”.
Tuesday March 13th 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm Marsh Pointe Elementary Ecopalooza. PBCBA booth to be set-up for educational purposes. Sara White and Christine Schwartz have volunteered to run this outreach request.
Saturday 14th April, NatureScaping at McArthur Beach State Park. Leni Bane will be volunteering for this event.
Saturday 14th April, Palm Beach Beekeepers Conference held at Pine Jog Environmental Education Center.
New Business:
None. Accomplishing issues and events that are pending.
Meeting adjourned at 7:00 PM
Minutes respectfully submitted by: Alexandra Kaufman