Elections

It's that time of year again to nominate the GVDG officers for 2014 - 2015. If you want to run or nominate someone to run get your nominations in at either Monday or Thursday doubles next week. Voting will take place from the membership monthly at Robert Avery's on May 3rd throught Thursday doubles the following week. You can vote in person at any of the 3 events or at anytime during the week via email sent to gvdgsecretary@gmail.com Emil's need to include your name as we may not recognize your email address. Remember only current club members may vote so pay your dues soon to be eligible to vote.

I know a lot of people have been looking for some new plastic in the club store lately. Unfortunately it was not prudent to order additional discs due to the large amount that was previously left in the store. All of last year we only made one disc order, and that was used primarily to replenish base line DX plastic that was low. Thankfully with the start of a new doubles season we are finally in a comfortable place to order new plastic and we are looking for as much input as possible. Please post here or contact a club officer about any plastic from Prodigy, Discraft, and Innova that you would like to see ordered. We will be looking into additional vendors after this order.

Thank you.
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April 2014 Minutes

April 2014 Club meeting @ AJ McMurphy's.

1-Finances- Account balance $676.97, no activity recently.
2-Monthlies- Membership Appreciation-Max is getting in contact with Robert Avery, may use Bob's house if fall back is needed. St. Jude-Agreed that Jersey Mike's is best lunch option, Jim designated jobs to those in attendance.
3-Sponsorship-Kings Cup $100 sponsorship, seconded and approved by all.
4-Club Elections- Will be posting information on Website and Facebook about positions and duties and time frame.
5-Work days-April 18th before St Jude to work on tourney prep, Jim West leading. April 27 at 1PM(after Baggers) working on trash pickup behind 17, Max and Jim leading.
6-DEPC-Flier coming in May, working on designs for an official permanent logo to go with annual theme logo.
7-Membership drive- Max and Jim will coordinate to get signs posted about membership benefits and details.
8-Tshirt design - Original club shirt with 10th anniversary under front logo. Seconded and voted by from all present.
9-June meeting location-Big Bubba's Burgers
10-Soccer league- GVDG was contacted by Recs and Parks about a possible summer soccer league playing on Sundays from 10A-3P. Parks has stated they will not permit league due to conflict with disc golf leagues already established.

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GVDG workday on Sunday April 27th as part of Earth Day awareness. We will be cleaning out trash from the pong behind hole 17. Please bring any long grippers/poles/nets you may have, some tools will be provided. Meet at 1PM.
Thank you.

March meeting minutes

March Club meeting - The Coffee Shack

Attendance - Max, DC, Chris Gill, Sean

Finances - The club currently has right around $500 in the bank. Max will be taking a check to Wilmington for Azalea Pro and Am sponsorship that was voted last month.

Club meeting locations - April: AJ McMurphy's, May - Possibly Stew's waiting for confirmation.

After monthlies we are going to start doing a quick club meeting review and open floor for those unable to attend the club meetings, first one will be after the St Jude monthly in April. 

Chris Gill has offered to reach out to Lowe's and see if we can get some deals on materials for upcoming course projects.

Ground Crew open-Sean has recommended we have the event in November after the DEPC to encourage work on the course throughout summer and depc prep. 

Course projects:

-Sean has identified a strong growing vine we intend to plant on the mando on hole 10 to spruce it up a bit, Max will be getting bricks from his office to make a base to ward off the mower. 

-Replacing the boards on the bridge to 9, adding additional brick to the walkway.

-Tree planting project to define the barrier between holes 12 and 13, and between 14 and 15 Blue pad.

-Permanent OB line defining holes 3-6.

-Replace damaged sign posts and benches.

If you see a project you can assist with, or have suggestions on additional projects please contact Max, DC, or Goo.

Website maintenance, please contact DC with any suggested website updates. He is planning to get the site spruced back up.

Adam Baker has published a proposed modification to the club bylaws, please review them for consideration at next months meeting.

Feb '14 Meeting Minutes

Due to snow the GVDG club meeting scheduled for 2/12 was rescheduled for Monday 2/17 at Max's house. Thanks to all who showed.

Attendance: Max, Daniel Coward, Jon Upchurch, Chris Gill, Sean Gough, Kurt Hodnett, Allen Foster, PJ Evans, Ryan Cybrowski

1-Finances(Kurt): All outstanding debts paid off. Currently have $280 in the bank.
2-Sponsorship(Adam Baker, Daniel): Adam proposed we sponsor the Azalea Am and Azalea Pro tournaments by New Hanover Disc Golf Club for $50/each. We have sponsored them in years past and they have sponsored the DEPC. Motion seconded and passed.
Also it was reminded that we have agreed to sponsor the shelter for $50 at the St Jude monthly in April.
3-Monthlies: Ice Bowl results: 40lbs of food and $300 raised for the Pitt County Social Services Food Bank. $280 was raised at the event Saturday and Foster donated $20 at the meeting to make it an even $300. Big thanks to all involved. Grounds Keeper Open- A free entry event for all who have performed course work over the previous year, Sean Gough is working to identify the date of the event. Looking at August/September.
March Mando Madness is March 1st. Signup end 9:45AM. Entry is $15 Pro, $10 Adv, $8 Am and Non-compete. Optional $2 ace pool. Each hole has a unique mando that must be completed before you hole out. If you have any ideas for hole mandos please contact TD Max Crotts.
4-Course maintenance: Now that it is a little warmer on weekends we hope to get back to maintaning the course and improving on pieces of it, we have not scheduled any organized work days, however if you have the ability to work on some of the issues listed below please contact a club officer. All help is greatly appreciated. Plant ivy on mando posts to color up the course, Sean is looking into appropriate plants. Hole 9: Replace boards on bridge. Holes 13 and 14 repair teesign posts. Clear vines in trees between 12 and 13. Work to update teesigns on changed holes (8, 10, 12, 14, 17). Chris Gill can help with teesign layout.
5-Club Membership: Reminder to start push for 2014/15 club membership running July through June. New members signing up in April will have carry over to next year. Lifetime memberships are available for $200, people choosing this option will receive a metal bagtag and customized higher end jacket or polo shirt(there choice).
6-Office voting (Adam): To avoid conflict of new officers having to run a large event we need to move officer voting from last week of April to start at membership appreciation monthly and end 1 week later. Motion seconded and passed.
7-Announcements: Allen Foster has accepted a job and will be moving to Raleigh ASAP. GVDG wishes him the best of luck and we hope to continue to see him on the course. Max Crotts announced that if anyone new shows interest in running as club President this May he will not run for reelection. He will have a followup post to this with his duties, responsibilities, and what is expected of the GVDG President.
8-Meeting location: Next month 3/12 at Coffee Shack by PCC. April meeting 4/9 at AJ McMurphies.

GVDG Club meeting is going to be rescheduled to Monday 2/17 at my house @ 7PM. Directions will be posted later. Everyone please be safe in the current weather conditions. Please help spread the word to anyone that may be going to the meeting. Thank you.

My address is: 1701 Canterbury Rd. It is off Charles by the football stadium. 
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