House Committee Minutes

5 July 2006

Minutes

Myron Brundage, Chairman

Fred Smyth

Bruno Bechtold

Skip Johnson

JJ Holland

Cecil Pierce, Commander

Meeting called to order at 1905

Minutes read and accepted

Managers report by House Chairman

Ad for new manager put in paper today.

Financial Report: Given at Post meeting 2 days ago, not needed again today.

Discussion of Saar’s account, signatures, receipt listings, and payments.

Old business:

Kitchen, JJ: Discussed status of menu, and kitchen. Suggestions include contracting out kitchen duties for percentage of the take, other includes volunteers to complete staff with some paid workers. Is in process of finishing the consultation with food providers to establish costs for various items to be on the menu. Much discussion done.

Drink Pricing: Still in progress. Discussion of high end bottle cost. Confusion over pricing discussed.

Check cashing policy discussed. Will continue as SOP instead of bylaw issue. Input requested. Limits discussed. Committee will take for further action. Members on bad check list should be banned from canteen until check covered. Tier levels of checks, local, county, state, etc.

Sandwich service – no more info

V-Dome use by camping units. Discussion on charging for use.

New Business:

Steam Tables available for our use free, hopefully. Will know for sure next week. Will be in custody of Post until that time.

Bingo materials to be inventoried and sold to American Legion, Knights of Columbus, etc. Best price gets it. If local doesn’t want it, can be sold outright without requiring gambling license.

Trade contract: Possibility of using cleaning contract in barter to allow member to stay in campground free for specified cleaning duties. Possibility of use of Form 1099 for IRS. Discussion held.

Good Of The Order:

JJ stated club approaching four months left of monies. Suggestion to get volunteer setup organized now to ensure Post remains solvent. Discussion held.

Discussion of electric bill, and Puget Power package held. To be investigated further. More information to be provided after consulting Puget Power.

Motion to adjourn the meeting by Smyth. Second by Johnson.