DBPOA Minutes

Board Members present: Russ Hessler, Tammy Smith, Sue Pohlkamp, Sue Zimmerman, Fred Hebert, Gary Jurgella, Art Steines. Non-Board members present: Mary Sulzer, Ruth Faivre

• Discussion on whether to cancel the scheduled Annual Meeting/Picnic that was planned for September 12th for reasons related to COVID-19. It was mentioned that we really cannot meet the guidelines regarding the serving of food, as the provided food would be buffet style; and, depending on the number of members attending, we would have a hard time keeping to the six-foot social distancing rule when playing the casino games. After much discussion, a motion was made by Fred to cancel this event for this year, seconded by Art. Five Board members were in favor and one was opposed to this decision. The motion was passed by majority vote. • We will need to complete and mail out the August DBOA newsletter as soon as we can to inform the members of this cancellation:  Mary is working on one more ad and will need a few more items before she can wrap up the August newsletter.  Sue P. will provide the President’s Message to Mary.  Tammy will get today’s meeting minutes out to the Board for approval and then to Mary so they can also be included in the August newsletter.  We will plan for an end of August newsletter and then an October newsletter yet for 2020.

The Scavenger Hunt is still on for Saturday, August 22nd. We are planning for up to 12 boats to participate. Boats are to pull up to the docks at Bar-B’s Sunset Bay Grill for the 1:00 pm start time and the packets will be brought to each boat. Regarding the Verso (Consolidated Water Power Company) closing, nothing changes with the licensing for water levels with the DuBay dam. Sue P. will provide a write-up on this to Mary for the August newsletter.

• Ruth Faivre was introduced to the Board. She is a DBPOA member and is helping us administer our current www.dubaypoa.com website and Facebook page. She has done some research on our website and provided valuable feedback to make some changes to move to an updated application for our web hosting. She spent some time creating a new website for us on wix.com.

She will send the Board a link for us to see what the new website would look like and we will review and discuss it at our next scheduled Board meeting. The new wix.com site has an updated interface for administering it, is user friendly and is more appealing than our current HTML-managed hosted website.

There is a monthly cost for wix.com that would replace our current yearly web hosting cost. The monthly cost would need to be paid via a credit card. Russ will work with US Bank to see if we are eligible to get a Business Credit Card if we decide to move to this new website. • Sue Z. mentioned that we are looking for a new leader to take over the DBPOA Hwy. 34 Cleanup twice a year event. Sue P. will write something up so Mary can include this in the August newsletter. Additionally, Russ will email various members who have indicated that they are interested in getting involved to see if any of those members are interested in taking it over. Art brought up the topic of how we get more members interested in joining the Association. We have relied on word of mouth or we have had new members join when there is an event impacting the lake, but we are not seeing as many new members compared to those who actually enjoy and use the lake.

It was suggested to form a Recruitment Committee to focus on getting new members. Fred said he would lead this committee and Ruth said she would be interested in helping. • Sue P. will add the Recruitment Committee, Board Member Slate and the wix.com website to the Agenda for our next meeting. • Our next Board meeting will be Wednesday, September 30th, 2020 at 500 p.m. We will revisit this the week prior, but most likely this will be a tele-conference meeting.

Board meeting adjourned at 6:05 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Tammy Smith