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What is Google+, Google+ integrates social services such as Google Profiles and Google Buzz, and introduces new services identified as Circles, Hangouts and Sparks. Google+ is available as a web site, and will be available as a desktop application, and is already available as a mobile application. Google+ will be direct competitor to Facebook.

BOISE GUN CLUB DIRECTOR’S MEETING MINUTES

Tuesday, October 4, 2011, 6:00 PM

Boise Gun Club

Attendance:

Directors: Wayne Faude, Norman Foster, John Booth, Steven Eichenberger, Lahoma Dupuis,  John Keppinger, James Trujillo, Leonard Wieking, Dale Hurd

Club members Kent Harris and Charlie Woodruff were also present.

1) The meeting was called to Order at 1803 hrs by President John Keppinger.

2) September 6, 2011 Minutes Approved

• Booth moved and Hurd seconded that minutes be approved.  Unanimously approved.

3) Treasurer’s Report-Wayne Faude

• US Bank Balance:  $34,862.51
• Perpetual’s Balance:  $2087.96
• Steve Young Perpetuals: $2016.00
• Debit Cards:  Wayne Faude, Abe Wilson and John Keppinger will be assigned Debit cards.  Dale Ham and Don Nicely will be removed from Debit card account on 10/5/2011.
• Account Access:  Wayne Faude, John Keppinger and Lahoma Dupuis will meet at US Band on 10/5/2011 to sign signature cards for checking accounts.

•  Booth moved and Hurd seconded that the Treasurer’s report be accepted as presented.  Unanimously approved.

4) Secretary Report-Kent

•  Target Inventory:   67,837 targets were thrown to include the 10% breakage total in September.
• Mailing Lists:  Lahoma will try emailing out flyers about 1-2 mo before shoots and 1-2 weeks before a shoot to see if the number of shooters increases.  This will be at no extra cost to the membership and we will have Brian do it from the website as a “no reply” email.

• Booth moved/Dupuis seconded that 9/11 shoot be rescheduled to the first weekend in August and make it a two day shoot and move the August shoot to a one day shoot in September the date to be determined later.  Unanimously approved.

• Faude moved/Foster seconded to have the secretary’s report approved.  Unanimously approved.

5) Directors Responsibilities

•  John Booth was assigned as the purchasing agent for the club.
• Dale Hurd will check the website and be the email contact for the club.

6) Club House Security

• Due to the increasing amount of the public coming in and shooting illegal ammunition at the club while it was closed a sign was presented by Kent Harris to be put on the wall by the kitchen that states that this is shotgun only club.  Discussion presented that the gate be closed and that a sign be put on the gate to give directions to Blacks Creek and the gun club hours.  Someone will contact Blacks Creek to see if they will share the expense.

• Hurd moved/Eichenberger seconded to have the signs and to close the gate each night.  Unanimously approved.

7) Shoot Report

• ACEC shoot very successful.  Details not fully available.
• Steve Young Shoot coming up in November.  Kent Harris working on programs.
• Thanksgiving Turkeyshoot will be held on Wednesday, November 23, 3pm to midnight.  Beer prices will be raised to $2.00 for beer and $3.00 for premium beer.
• Due to many complaints of the flip flop it was decided that if there are more than six squads in a shoot the flip flop will be abandoned and go to 50 targets then move.  Also that doubles either be first or last on the shoot schedule.

• Eichenberger moved/Dupuis seconded that flip flop be used with less than 6 squads.  Unanimously approved.

• Target prices for the state shoot were discussed.
• Eichenberger moved/Booth seconded that we keep the target prices the same as last year.  Unanimously approved.

8) Coin Operated Traps

• After much discussion it was decided to scrap the coin operated project at this time.  Taking jobs away from trap help, the fact that two coin operated machines would take money away from voice calls at this time.

• Eichenberger moved/Dupuis seconded that the coin operated traps be scrapped at this time.  Vote was 6 Ayes/1 Abstain.

9) Voice Calls

• There was discussion about the quality of the voice calls.  There are many calls that are pulling slowly or not pulling at all.

• Foster moved/Faude seconded that 3 sets of cordless voice calls be purchased at this time.  Vote was 6 Ayes/ 1 Abstain

10) Building Insulation

• Discussion ensued about the lack of insulation in the roof.
• Eichenberger moved/Faude seconded that 3-4 bids be presented for insulation and a vote at next meeting on which vendor to choose.  Unanimously approved.

Duty rosters were passed around for volunteers for working the club.

Foster moved/Eichenberger seconded that meeting be adjourned. Unanimously approved.   Meeting adjourned at 1930.

Next meeting scheduled for November 1, 2011, at 1800 at the Boise Gun Club.

Respectfully Submitted by Lahoma Dupuis, Secretary Boise Gun Club

The results for the fifth week of the Fall Trap and Skeet leagues have been posted. See the League tab, or click the following link =http://boisegunclub.com/leagues/

The results for the second week of the Fall Trap and Skeet leagues have been posted. See the League tab, or click the following link =http://boisegunclub.com/leagues/

Here is the program for the Thanksgiving and Christmas meat shoots.

2011MeetShootProgram

The results for the second week of the Fall Trap and Skeet leagues have been posted. See the League tab, or click the following link =http://boisegunclub.com/leagues/

The results for the first week of the Fall Trap and Skeet leagues have been posted. See the League tab, or click the following link = http://boisegunclub.com/leagues/

The Boise Gun Club website has now gone mobile.  If you have a cell phone that can get the internet you now can get the www.boisegunclub.com on it.  You can get the mobile website two ways:

1. Type http://www.boisegunclub.com in the address bar on your mobile phone and the site will now reconginze that you have a mobile browser and automaticly switch.
2. The other way is to use the new technology that is out and scan the 2D – Barcode (AKA: QR barcodes). If your mobile phone has a bar code reader just simple launch that application and scan the barcode with your phones camera and you will taken right to the Boise Gun Club mobile site.

If your phone does not have a barcode reader there are many companies that provide these types of readers.  Below are some popular companies that provide scanning applications:

• Android Market
• iPhone Store
• BeeTagg
• i-nigma
• QuickMark

The results of Week 10 trap and league scores have been posted.  See the League tab, or click the following link = http://boisegunclub.com/leagues/

BOISE GUN CLUB DIRECTOR’S MEETING MINUTES

Tuesday, September 06, 2011, 6:00 PM

Boise Gun Club

Attendance:

Directors: Stan Rushton, Wayne Faude, Norman Foster, John Booth, Steven Eichenberger, Lahoma Dupuis,  John Keppinger, James Trujillo, Dale Ham, Abe Wilson, Kent Harris.

Club members: Charlie Woodruff

 Absent: Dale Hurd, Leonard Weiking.

1 . The meeting was called to Order at 1800 hrs by VP John Keppinger.

• Director Stan Rushton respectfully submitted his resignation.  Mr. Rushton suggested Mr. James Trujillo as an alternate and since he was one vote behind Wayne Faude the Board approved his appointment.  Mr. Trujillo accepted.

 2. Election of 2012 Officers:

• Nomination were taken and voted on unanimously for the 2012 Officers.  All officers accepted their appointments and took on their respective duties immediately.
• John Keppinger-President
• Steve Eichenberger-1^st Vice President
• John Booth-2^nd Vice President
• Lahoma Dupuis-Secretary
• Wayne Faude-Treasurer.

 3. 2012 ISTA State Shoot

• Dupuis moved Eichenberger seconded that the ISTA State Shoot be held at the Boise Gun Club in 2012.  The vote passed with 5 votes and 2 directors abstaining.  Lahoma will draft an acceptance letter to be approved on Wednesday, September 7, by the BGC BOD president and will be emailed to Ron Sheets, ISTA President, with hardcopy to be sent at a later date.

 4. Treasurer’s Report-Wayne Faude

•  US Bank Balance:  $41,546.11

• Perpetual’s Balance:  Not reconciled at this time due to them being hit repeatedly the last few shoots.

• Debit Cards:  Dale Ham turned in his Debit Card.  Abe continues to hold his, as does Wayne Faude.  Future card holders will be determined at a later date.

• Account Access:  At this time Wayne has internet access to the bank account.  It was moved and seconded by Eichenberger and Booth respectively, to change the account access and check signature cards to John Keppinger, Lahoma Dupuis and Wayne Faude.  Wayne will coordinate with the bank to get this done.  It was unanimously approved.

• Treasurer’s Report was accepted with the perpetual report to be added after reconciliation.  It was moved and seconded by Eichenberger and Foster, respectively.  It was unanimously approved.

• Wayne will send Kent the perpetual money totals for the next shoot program once reconciled.

 5. Secretary Report-Kent Harris

• Target Inventory:   60,245 targets were thrown plus 10% breakage for a total of 66,270 total targets used in August.  There was discussion that decreasing breakage such as education of new shooters and trap help could decrease the breakage number.  Keeping the traps in good repair and possibly reloading one of the lower skeet traps could decrease the breakage also.  Education to the trap kids that turning in the shoot tickets late is acceptable could also lead to a lower breakage percentage.  Directors will collectively work on those education issues.

• Mailing Lists:  Currently there are three mailing lists to include Meat /Fun Shoot, Member List and Registered Shooters List.  These will be maintained by Lahoma once Kent gets her the information.

• Newsletter:  Kent will work with Lahoma to develop the newsletter.  There are 4 put out each year.  Lahoma plans to have all directors input into the newsletter.

• It was moved and seconded by Faude and Foster to accept the secretary’s report for both August 2 and August 21.

6. Directors Responsibilities

• Dale Ham did leave a vendor list and keys and credit card.

• Purchasing agent and responsibilities will be tabled until next meeting.

7. Club House Security

• Security system keys and codes:  Call Steve Eichenberger to obtain the code to the vaults.  John Keppinger or Wayne Faude will be in charge of getting keys to all directors.

• Vault Access:  All directors and Bobby will have access to the vault.  Booth and Dupuis moved and seconded this motion with unanimous approval by the membership.

8. Shoot Report

• August 7 ATA Registered Shoot:   Of the late summer shoots, this was most successful.

• August 21 Club Shoot:  Considered a successful shoot with most of the money going to the membership.

• Summer PITA multiplex shoots:  Again, another successful shoot.

• ACEC Shoot on September 22 was discussed.  Directors to volunteer for coverage and Wayne and Gerry to work on getting trap help.

• Nov/Feb Registered shoot programs being worked on by Kent at this time.

• Discussion of rescheduling the 9/11 shoot was brought up but tabled for next meeting.

9. Coin Operated Traps

• Abe is going to call for pricing.  John Keppinger has information and Briley Choke Tubes has a system.   This issue was tabled so all information can be gathered and suggestions for two or four machines to be discussed and voted at a special September 22 meeting if enough directors are present.

 10. Painting the Trap Houses

• Tabled until next meeting.

Duty rosters were passed around for volunteers for working the club.  It was moved and seconded to adjourn meeting by Foster and Booth and approved unanimously.   Meeting adjourned at 2000.  Next meeting scheduled for October 4 at 1800 at the Boise Gun Club.

Respectfully Submitted by Lahoma Dupuis, Secretary Boise Gun Club