CGKA Meeting Agenda-- Sunday, 7:00 -- Full Sail Brewery

pacifichigh · Since 11 May 2005 1004 Posts ATX Texan

I have to go out of town for work, so unfortunatly I will not be at the meeting this weekend, thanks to everyone for putting their time and energy into helping make the CGKA a more effective voice for us all! Cory is going to be out of town as well, so everyone help Jim make this easy and stress free!!!

1. Sand Bar/Event Site Update-- What the CGKA has been doing & what is coming down the pipe

2. BOD Nominations--Potential BOD members must have a year round presence, be responsible, and accountable to their commitments.

3. Summer Race Series Details-- Cory worked to make this happen, should be fun!

4. Blowout 2007-- Still in the early stages here, but something we are starting to explore.

5. Sand Bar Clean Up--May 19

tinyE · Since 21 Jan 2006 2004 Posts not really an XTreme Poster

Can someone recap the mtg?

magicmaker · Since 29 Oct 2006 895 Posts da Hood Opinionated

1) sandbar cleanup may 19th. The water will be lowered 5 days in advance for the wood debris to dry. We have permission to use chainsaws and 4wd vehicles. We need to designate one area to pile debris that will be burned. There was talk about leaving the two major wood piles already out there to prevent erosion of the sandbar, and simply trying to make them safer wood piles, by removing all the protruding branches and burms that could be hazardous. This would also provide a means for building a natural slider.

1a) What we need from the community is for everybody who can show up, to show up and bring chain saws, 4wd vehicles, winching equipment (chains & come-alongs) and as many people as you can bring down to the sandbar to help cleanup. Cleanup begins 1pm on Saturday May 19th.

2) Event site usage and pumping on the grass was discussed and it was determined the CGKA's stance would be to pursue the issue of being able to pump up on the grass. This would be limited to the downwind 10% (40 - 60ft) of the event site. If this happens there is going to be other issues to go along with it. Who will self police? how will we ensure that there are no lines attached to any kites on the grass? There will be signs posted clearly stating the rules, but more effort will be required to make it work, if we are given this privilege.

3) the kitemare incident of the person getting ragdolled on the waroo was discussed. We felt that people should take a stance and never launch a kite for someone when it is directly downwind and result in a hot launch. As well as the fact that people need to be more aware of all the debris downwind of their launching spot. Had either of these small precautions been taken the person would probably not have gotten rag dolled or at least not over a bunch of logs and debris that could have done serious damage. Experienced kiters should make an effort to help people who are not in the know of safe procedures.

4) Garret, Tonia & Greg spoke about their kiteboarding for cancer fund raising event on August 25th as a way for kiteboarding to raise money and benefit the community. It is also way for kiteboarding to give back to the community and has the CGKA's full support. For more info PM Garret or tekko as i dont like posting email addresses on a forum that can be scoured by bots.

5) Summer race series. Cory wants to put on a race series happening every friday, except first friday, for two months (6 total days of racing).

6) BOD directors nominations and requirements were talked about, it was decided that nominations and elections should be delayed until our online voting application is up and running (in about 2 weeks). We have a rough list of criteria for people to be on the BOD but we are still working this out. We also came to an agreement there should be 4 core members (president, treasurer, secretary, communications director) and then an additional 7 - 9 BOD seats. This is still in the works and needs to be finalized. and it will be discussed in more depth at the next meeting. Lastly, Phil motioned and jim seconded the motion that i (adam) be appointed to comunications position and a unanimous vote finalizes the motion. We also agreed to reconvene in 1 months time.

7) tentative agenda for next meeting
BOD elections
self policing
if anyone has anything else they would like to see talked about at the next meeting please PM me.

A couple other notes, here is a link to the port website where port commission and waterfront rec commission meeting times and locations are posted: http://www.portofhoodriver.com/Commission%20Info/Meeting%20Info.htm

Thanks everybody for coming.

pkh · Since 27 Feb 2005 6548 Posts Couve / Hood Site Lackey

It was decided that exclusive access to the event site would be given to the attendees of the meeting... Wink

Actually this was a great meeting, most productive yet I think. I was especially impressed by Garret, Tonia, and Greg's proposal for the Kiteboarding for Cancer event. I think that's going to be a great event for the cause and a lot of fun.

I took some minutes down until the laptop battery died, gave what I had to Adam and he's going to post them.