December Meeting Minutes

 Meeting Minutes, 12/13/23. Michaelangelos Pizza

Attendance: Max, Mike Fazzini, Adam Walter, Daniel Brubaker, Mike Karlovec, Jarrett Wallace, Whitney Graham, Buddy, Vince Tricarico

1-Finances: $14k in bank, $5k for GVDG Kids, ~$1k for DEPC, $8k general fund. Club champion patches and green jacket for Bentley are only outstanding bills. 

2-Elections: Max proposed expanding officers from 4 to 5 for 2024. Motion seconded. All present vote for it. 

2024 GVDG Officers: Whitney Graham, Mike Karlovec, Mike Fazzini, Jarrett Wallace, & Max Crotts. Treasurer: Adam Walter. 

3-Ayden: February 3rd will be a combined Founders Day and Down East Highschool Invitation at Ayden Park. PDGA C-tier. 

4-New Years tournament. TD: Jarrett Wallace. 2 rounds, exact format not yet decided. 

5-Other upcoming events: ECU Ultimate Fundraiser, Mando Madness, Ace Race style tournament on the Meadow new red pads. 

6-DEPC: planned format: All pros, MA1 & FA1 3 day 3 rounds. All other ams 2 day 3 rounds with tee times Sunday. The 3 day group would play meadow twice, ecu once. All others would play Meadow, ECU, and Farmville one time each. Format not yet locked in. Vince and Max are working on sponsorship packages. 

7-GVDG Kids: Scholarship tournament will take place in the spring. Scholarship will be sent out to pitt county guidance councilors in 2024. 

8-Putting league: We are contacting multiple locations to find a location that can host. 

July Meeting Minutes

 July 2023 Meeting Minutes. Locations: Max’s House

Attendance: Max, PJ Evans, Mike Karlovec, Mike Fazzini, AWAL , Jason Myers, Vince Tricarico, Daniel Brubaker Jarrett Wallace

1-Finances: In the bank: $25,300. In PayPal: $18.109.

General-

GVDG Kids-

DEPC- $12k sponsorship, $16,065 registration

Adam Walter will provide an updated breakdown of each account.

2-DEPC Match Play: Shirts and trophies are on order.

New Format idea for 2024: Still a team-based series with draft. Instead of weekly events, 3-4 events scheduled with just 1 event a month. 1 month can be stroke play (possibly PDGA C-tier), 1 month match play, 1 month doubles.

3-DEPC: Mike K is finalizing the player cards and working with a local printer. He will post proofs on FB of each card soon. Each set contains 16 cards plus 1 of 4 autographed cards that will be randomly included in each set. The cost is $20 and they are available when registering for DEPC.

Player pack items: We are set on a jersey shirt as part of the player packs. Also looking at options like course signs, full beach towel, golf towel, challenge coin, minis.

Max is adding an option to purchase previous years items that are still available in the store: DEPC umbrellas and the Ridge Roller fridge/sling bag.

We discussed potential ECU Purple layout ideas and maintenance that needs to be performed at the Meadow, Farmville, and Ayden. Workdays will be announced soon.

4-Course work: Mike Fazzini is going to work on finishing the base for Meadow hole 3. Max is putting out the remaining new tee signs for the Meadow. Once the softball little league world series is done in Greenville, we will contact Parks for assistance with finishing tee pads. Farmville parks has the funds to upgrade several pads, we need a group willing to help with the install then we can schedule workdays out there. Vince has contacted Ayden Parks about removing the downed tree out there.

5-Other events:

Contentnea Creek Classic, originally scheduled for July 30th, is being rescheduled to later in the year.

On Sept 9th there will be a fundraiser event to benefit the Pitt County Schools lunch program.

DEPC Warm Up C-tiers by Basket Bashers: September 16, September 17, October 8th. Basket Bashers DEPC Flex Starts October 16-18. Full course details coming soon.

Basket Bashers Amateur Tour Finale October 7th Logan Staton

6-GVDG Kids: We had 6 kids apply for the GVDG Kids Scholarship, the top 2 have been selected and Vince is in the process of contacting them.

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April Club Meeting Minutes

 Attendance: Max, Andrew Duppstadt, Mike Fazzini, Adam Walter, Daniel Brubaker, Jarrett Wallace, Vince Tricarico

1-Finances: $16,251.94 in the bank. 2 outstanding invoices to pay. The total is split across several different funds: DEPC, GVDG Kids, and general fund. We'll work to have a full breakdown by next months meeting. 

2-Match Play: We are moving the close of registration until April 30th. 

3-Doubles: The season will be 20 weeks long. Jarrett is finalizing a flyer with the weekly locations and formats. There will be a few weeks of unique formats: alt shot, best score. A few weeks will be at Oakwood School. 

4-Mando Madness: Mike is available to cook lunch on Sunday, we'll have a hotdog lunch free for everyone playing. 

5-Scholarship: Registration is open now on discgolfscene.com for the GVDG Kids Scholarship Shootout on May 6th. The tournament will be 2 rounds at the new Oakwood school course. 

6-Beginner friendly camp: Farmville Parks and Rec is organzing a one day camp on June 3rd from 9A-Noon. Ages 7 and up. 

7-Horizons @ Oakwood: Vince has been asked to assist with an event at Oakwood potentially June 10th. More info coming soon. 

8-Course work: We have created a google doc to track course improvement projects we are working on. If you are interested in a particular project or want to suggest one send an officer a message. Link in comments. 

9-DEPC: Tiered registration will open July 1st on discgolfscene.com. Ladies, 1000+ rated men, and DEPC Match Play participants will have first access. Vince is looking into what it would take to have a musical act during DEPC weekend. Jay is updating the logo for 2023. 

January Club Meeting Minutes

 January 11th @ Michaelangelos Pizza

Attendance: Max, Whitney, Daniel B, Mike K, Mike F, Jarrett W, Vince T

1-Finances: $16.4K in bank and PayPal. Outstanding -2 invoices for Action Advertising and Veterance for Vets tournament. 

2-Upcoming Events:

    -Veterans for Vets - January 21st @ Farmville - Registration is currently full. Mike Karlovec is selling raffle tickets for a chance to win a basket and other prices, $5 for 1 ticket, $20 for 6. You do not have to be present to win, contact Mike to purchase tickets. 

    -Ayden Founders Day Classic - February 4th @ Ayden Park - 2 round PDGA B-tier tournament. Spots still available. 

    -Mando Madness @ the Meadow - April 16th. - 2 round PDGA C-tier tournament. Every hole has a unique mandatory that must be completed to finish the hole. 

    -GVDG Kids Scholarship Shootout - May 6th - 2 round PDGA C-tier tournament. First event at the new Oakwood School course. Registration opens March 15th. 

    -Other upcoming events: Spring Fling (Michael Blackmon), Speed Golf (Max Crotts and Whitney Graham), Mixed Doubles (Whitney Graham)

3-Course Work: 

    -Ayden: Waiting for new locks so we can move all baskets to correct positions and holes. Need to move teepad for hole 9. 

    -Meadow: Finish hole 3 basket raise, Hole 10 green improvements, order tee signs for red pads and get the reds playable. 

    -Farmville: Still need to organize workdays for improving tee pads. 

4-DEPC: We have agreed on title sponsorhsip for the 2023 DEPC with Basket Bashers. The new year hangover tournaments raised $330 for DEPC. Looking for ideas for this years players packs, ideas discussed at meeting include: shirts, challenge coins, signs. This years event will have 4 courses in play with a maximum field size of 480. Max, Adam Walter, Whitney Graham, and Andrew Duppstadt are course TDs this year. 

    -DEPC Match Play: Registration will open in March, Live draft in mid April, plan to start playing May 1. Team sizes and # of teams will be decided by how many register. 

5-Social Media: Whitney is revamping the club social media accounts and looking at possibly doing a monthly recap podcast or video. 

GVDG November Meeting Minutes

 November 9th club meeting @ Michaelangelos Pizza on Memorial. 

Attendance: Max Crotts, Whitney Graham, Daniel Brubaker, Mike Fazzini, Mike Karlovec, Adam Walter, Jarrett Wallace, Vince Tricarico

1-Finances: $16.915 in the bank. Owe $6939 to Action Advertising. $3k in general fund, $5k in scholarship, $2k in GVDG Kids. 

2-Course Work: 

Ayden-need to schedule work day to move 2 tee pads and 1 pin for new permanent layout. Michael Blackmon almost done designing new tee signs. Fundraiser in works for new tee signs, see meadow teesign below for details. 

Farmville: If we can get a group together for a workday on tee pads Parks will order wood for them. 

Meadow: Permanent riser on hole 3, green improvements on hole 10 B pin, replace the Purple tees with 12x6 pads to match Gold. We are ordering ground whiskers to mark 10M circle. Max is contacting parks for assistance with teepads and other improvements. Need to find a solution to parking during tournaments. Need to install the new Red course. 

3-GVDG Club Championship: Saturday December 10th. Registration is open now @ https://www.discgolfscene.com/tournaments/Greenville_Disc_Golf_Club_Championship_2022

4-Officer Elections: All officer positions up for nomination starting now. 1 treasurer position and 4 officers. Voting will take place Dec 1st through Club Championship Dec 10th. All current club members are eligible to vote. 

5-2023 Membership: We will order 2023 GVDG member patches. Membership dues will be $15, $10 with valid Student ID. All memberships just $10 through January 1st Hangover Classic PDGA tournaments. 

6-DEPC: We have been approved as an A-tier event again. October 20-22. The Professional side will definitely be a 3 day event, looking for feedback on 2 or 3 days for amateur side. Potential to expand to 4 courses. We are working now on sponsorship package with plans to start sponsorship search earlier, if you know any businesses that would be interested in being a tournament partner please reach out to Max or Vince. 

7-Meadow Tee Signs: The tee signs at the Meadow have been updated with the current layouts including the soon to be built Red course. The old tee signs will be posted for sell. The money from the sell of these signs will be used to replace the signs at Ayden. Each sign is $20, we will reach out to hole sponsors first then they will be first come first serve when posted online. 

8-3rd Annual Hangover Classic: Jarrett Wallace is running his annual new years event. This year there will be 2 1-round PDGA C-tier tournaments. Gold pads tee at 9AM. White pads to Alt baskets will tee at 1:30PM. Registration will be on discgolfscene.com. 

June Meeting Minutes

 June 8 @ Seared Chophouse. 

Attendance: Max Crotts, Michael Blackmon, PJ Evans, Mike Karlovec, Jarrett Wallace, Mike Fazzini

1-Finances: $18,130 in the bank with a few oustanding bills. 

2-Doubles: The first session ends June 20, there will be a 2 week break then back for a 2nd 8 week session. Michael Blackmon suggested offering a season pass at a discounted rate. We will try offering a $70 season pass ($10 saved), must purchase at or before the first week, July 11. No refunds if you miss a week. 

3-Club matchplay: Mike Fazzini told us his experience with Florida club match play. He and Blackmon our going to work on a proposal for next meeting. 

4-Friday Flex: Max is bringing the Friday Flex back starting June 17. PDGA 6-week league. 3 weeks Meadow, 2 weeks Covey, 1 week Farmville. After the 6 weeks we'll take a 1 week break for Blackmon's event then come back with another session. 

5-Ayden Grifton High School DGC Fundraiser: Michael Blackmon is going to run a flex start 1-round C-tier on Friday July 29 at Ayden. This is a fundraiser event for baskets for the school and their new disc golf club. 

6-PDGA World's viewing party. Blackmon suggested the club hosting a final round viewing party for this years world championships. We need to identify a location. 

7-Contentnea Creek Classic: July 31 @ Farmville. 1 day 2 round C-tier. Fly Guy is setup to do Am payout. Entry fees; Pro-$50. Am $20, no player pack $5 to fees and $15 to payout. Players will have optional joice of selecting a players pack during registration for an additional $15. 

8-Storage unit: Checking on pricing for a very small storage unit for club tools and equipment as the club continues to grow. Preferably a location near Meadow or easily accesible. 

Next club meeting is Wednesday July 13 7PM, location TBA. 

GVDG May Meeting Minutes

 GVDG Club Meeting 5/11/22

Jarvis Street Bottle Shop

Attendees: Vince Tricarico, Jarrett Wallace, Adam Walter, Daniel Brubaker, Mike Karlovec

Topics:

1. Finances - $18,260ish total. Outstanding Invoices - Discmania, Action Advertising, Innova. Selling leftover beginner sets from Oakwood event to PIAS.
2. Doubles - Going well. New CTP sponsor Seared Chophouse, waiting on Innova inventory and 2022 GVDG Club shirts, need minis. Talks about spring and fall glow season - like a pre and post season to normal doubles.
3. Upcoming Tournaments - ECO 5/21-22 - Purple Layout both days. We intend to have our tee signs w/par and distance on correct pads. Correct layout is on UDISC, Vince will contact J about elevators and layout. Volunteers needed to paint and flag the meadow on Friday 5/20. Shelter has been reserved for the weekend. - Mystery Tour 5/28 - look for event page this week on FB. - Max's proposed B Tier with cheap entry. Still looking at dates and format. Suggested name "Cheap & Easy Open." Once Ayden is updated, host C tier - Micheal Blackmon wants to TD (maybe a flex, maybe reg C tier, maybe start inaugural event?)
4. Oakwood Tournament - 32 played, 34 paid. Very positive feedback on layout. Pushing public donations to finish course, hoping for tee pads, signs and infoboard as well. Club voted, all in favor of sponsoring a hole. $500 = lifetime sponsorship all in attendance were in favor. Still compiling total numbers from the weekend.
5. GVDG Kids - Summer Camp in Farmville. Sign ups now open on FP&R website. Need volunteers for instructors. Get in touch with Vince.
6. Ayden Disc Golf Course - work may begin tomorrow (weather) to change 3 holes to finalize layout. We may organize an official work day to complete it all in one day. Two basket position changes. Micheal Blackmon will finalize tee signs, we will figure out signs, installation and info board in the future.
7. Meadow work - looking for volunteers for hole 3 permanent elevator. Need a design for hole 10s green change, discussed red pads being put in at meadow to create a very beginner friendly layout - more discussion needed.
8. DEPC - J is finalizing logo to include Gatekeeper Media logo, we need to get volunteers for the event, All player pack ideas needed next meeting in June, Vince is going to contact RecTeq and go in person to Camping World for sponsorship. Vince will also talk to ECU about course changes and progress.

If you have any questions, want to volunteer or have suggestions please comment below or contact an officer. Next meeting will be June 8th at 7pm, Seared Chophouse, please bring your appetite and lets have a good showing!

April Meeting Minutes

 April 12 @ Winterville Tiebreakers

Attendance: Max Crotts, Mike Karlovec, Jarrett Wallace, Vince Tricarico, PJ Evans, Adam Walter, Michael Blackmon

1: Finances - Club currently has $17,400 in the bank. $600 owed to food bank, a few outstanding invoices to Action Advertising. 

2: Doubles - 25 at first preseason event. Jarrett and Vince are working on possible artwork for winner disc. 

3:Match Play - Max is working with Rob @ Action Advertising to get shirts ASAP this year. 

4: Deliver the Chains - 3 PDGA C-tier tournaments May 7-8. Fundraiser for new course at Oakwood School. Registration is now live at discgolfscene.com. We need 12 additional portable baskets for the tournmaent weekend. 

5: Possible new tourney - Max is looking into potential new B-tier PDGA tournament for this summer. More details to follow. 

6: Spring Fling - Blackmon and Max got OB painted Friday for the event. Blackmon made event trophies. 

7: DEPC - Still working to identify potential sponsors. With registration opening in June we need to have planned layouts and schedule before reg opens. 

8: Course work: Meadow kiosk - Whitney looking into painting and planting around kiosk. Max is working with Rob Gerard on updated course map for kiosk, will be done once Purple layout is finalized. Second meadow kiosk in ball field parking lot with course map planned. Max is building a work tracker spreadsheet to keep track of status of current and planned projects. 

9: Meadow pin position names - We had a lot of confusion with the color of the new baskets. Club officers had never intended for baskets to be referred to by a color however many people saw them as white (short) and blue (long) pins. We are getting ready to update teesigns and look to have a clearer naming scheme for the course. With that we all agreed the pins should be named Pin A, Pin B, and so on moving forward. Max will change this on Udisc now and the new signs will reflect the change. 

10: GVDG Membership tier - It was suggested we add a low cost membership option for students, college and grade school eligible. $15 Student membership options was unanimiously voted in. They receive $1 off all club events and discount at the club store. To join GVDG contact a club officer or join at any club event. 

March Meeting Minutes

 March Meeting Minutes. Angus Grill West

Attendance: Max, Daniel Brubaker, Adam Walter, Jarrett Wallace, Vince Tricarico, Kory Hussey, Michael Blackmon

1-Finances: $14k in bank. $600 owed to Food Bank. A few outstanding invoices to Action Advertising. 

2-Meadow Baskets: New DD Veterans have arrived, scheduled install after Sunday Taggers, 3/13. Max is posting call for help. 

3-DEPC Match Play: Reg opens this week and runs through end of March. $50 entry. Size and number of teams will depend on number of players to sign up. Regular season will be longer than last year. Working with Vince and Action Advertising to have team shirts ASAP this year. 

4-DEPC: We are working with Gville sports commission and other groups on sponsorship options. Vince is working with ECU on possible updates to NRC course. Tiered registration will open in June.

5-Scholarship: Still working with golf course on a reschedule date. 

6-GVDG Kids: Farmville Summer Camp June 27-30. 

7-Doubles: Jarrett is finalizing a flier. Pre season in April 1. There will be 2 8-week series with overall winners of each. Looking into pricing on possible trophy discs.

8-Feedback: Daniel had the feedback from his end of year survey. 29 people responded, I'll try to get the results in the comments. 

9-Mando Madness: Players packs have been ordered, Max will post the layout this week. 

10-Spring Fling: Registration open now at dgscene.com/GVDGspringfling. One round new Purple layout and one round Gold. Still finalizing Am players packs. 

11-GVDG is looking for help with social media, if you know anyone interested please contact a club officer. 

12-Sponsorship: $100 for Kinston Open - all approved. $50 for Lancer - all approved. 

Feb '22 meeting minutes

 February meeting minutes. Location: Jarvis Street Bottle Shop.

Attendance: Max Crotts, Daniel Brubaker, Mike Karlovec, Whitney Graham, Vince Tricarico, Jarrett Wallace, PJ Evans

1) Finances - $22,825 in the bank. $8557 in basket fund, $4681 in general fund, $5347 in scholarship, $2165 in GVDG Kids, $1833 in DEPC. 

2) New Meadow Baskets. We had a unanimous vote to go with DD Veteran baskets. The regular pins will be blue, alt pins will be white, practice baskets will be mixed colors. 

3) Event Calendar: Jarrett is finalizing the doubles calendar, official doubles will start first week of May and run for 2 8-week sessions with a 2 week break around 4th of July. DEPC Match Play registration will start in March, the live draft and start of play will be early April. Mando Madness is March 19, registration will open mid February. 

4) DEPC - Vince and Max are working on sponsorship letters. If you know any potential sponsors please contact one of them. We are talking with Gatekeeper Media again for coverage. Registration should open in June again this year, we will do tiered registration again with ladies divisions opening up first, then 1000 rated pros, 975 rated pros, then general registration. Each reg tier will be a week. We have not set courses and layouts yet, the courses and schedule will be heavily dependent on sponsorship. 

5) 2022 GVDG membership - Max is going to see if we can use DGS as an option for club membership signup. 

2022 GVDG Membership Tiers 

Basic Membership - $25 - $1 off all GVDG non sanctioned events (putting league, doubles, etc - does not include club championship). Each member receives a $10 GVDG club store credit that can be combined to be used later on. We will have special 2022 GVDG shirts available in early 2022. 

Bronze Membership - $60 ($55 for new members) - Basic Membership PLUS 2021 Discmania 60” DEPC umbrella plus $15 GVDG Store Credit

Silver Membership - $100 ($90 for returning members) - Basic membership PLUS umbrella PLUS 2 2022 DEPC Fundraiser items (value $50-$60)

Gold Membership - $265 - Basic Membership PLUS umbrella PLUS 1 hole sponsorship at the 2022 Down East Players Cup.

November Club Meeting Minutes

 Location: Jarvis Street Bottle Shop

Attendance: Max Crotts, Daniel Brubaker, Charles Thompson, Mike Karlovec, Jarrett Wallace, Vince Tricarico

Finances: Total in Bank=$10,997. All DEPC related bills have been paid. Only outstanding bills are new club shirts. Full Breakdown - General Fund $3982; GVDG Scholarship $3000; GVDG Kids $2165; Basket Fund $1770; 2022 DEPC -$100 (sanctioning fee)

Baskets: We got quotes from Innova, DD, DiscGolfPark, Prodigy, and DGA. Discraft could not provide a quote as they will not have basket until an unknown time next year. At the meeting we decided to focus on Innova, DGP, and DGA quotes and make a final decision at the December meeting once we have a better picture of funds from the basket auction.

Basket Auction: We all agreed to ask people from reframing from emotional pleas in future basket auctions. Bids only. 

DEPC 2021 Wrap up: All bill are paid. Play Greenville calculated the economic impact of this years DEPC to be $584,000 for Pitt County. 

2022 Schedule:

Jan 1 - New Year Flex Start C-Tier - Jarrett Wallace

Jan 2 - GVDG Championship - Vince Tricarico

Jan 22/23 - GVDG Scholarship C-Tier - Vince & Daniel Brubaker

Late February - GVDG IceBowl - Max Crotts

March-May - Mystery Tour and Membership Appreciation - Max Crotts

March-May - Mando Madness @ the Meadow C-tier - Max Crotts

June-July - Contentnea Creek Classic C-tier - Max Crotts

Oct 21-23 - Down East Players Cup 

Other 2022 Events - Sunday Baggers, Summer Doubles, Putting League, Friday Flex

Putting League: Nov15-Jan 3. Primary location is a warehouse on Dickenson Ave near Uptown. On Dec 6 and Jan 3 putting league will be at Backwoods Tavern. Flier with full details coming soon. 

Club Elections: Officer elections will be held from Jan 2 through the club meeting January 12. 4 board member spots and 1 treasurer position are open. Nominations for officers starts now and runs through January 1. Current board members: Max Crotts, Vince Tricarico, Daniel Brubaker, Jarrett Wallace. Current Treasurer: Adam Walter. 

Workday Coordinator: It was suggested that we add a position of workday coordinator to be the lead for course work projects. General consensus at the meeting was an official title isn't necessary, we know who the skilled club members are and we should encourage contacting them for guidance and support when planning and scheduling workdays.

GVDG Kids: Oakwood is planning another clinic and looking at running a fundraiser event to raise money for additional baskets for their campus course. Thank you Pat Mallette for donating your DEPC winnings to get new discs for GVDG Kids. Eastern Elementary recently got some disc golf equipment and GVDG Kids may be able to assist them with teaching a class. Beth Payne has an idea of combining a kids class/clinic with the Friday Flex or similar event next summer. 

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July Meeting Minutes

 July 14 @ Pitt Street Brewing

Attendance: Max, Daniel B, Vince, Jarrett, Adam Walter, Charles T, Mike K, Whitney

1-Finances: $56,300 currently in the bank, $46k of this is  entry and sponsorship from the DEPC and Contentnea Creek Classic. 

2-Workdays: Max is meeting with Parks this week to work on details of finishing all star teepads. July 31 9AM Jarrett is leading a workday at the Meadow hole 9. Daniel Brubaker will organize a series of Saturday weekly workdays followed by doubles, each event will have a set area and goal to accomplish. $5 cash doubles, $7 if you didn't participate in the workday. 

3-DEPC Sponsorship: We are finalizing title sponsorship and should have it announced in the next week. We are still looking for a title sponsor for the video coverage, if you know a company that would be interested please let Max or Vince know. We also have several hole sponsorship opportunities available. 

4-DEPC Players Packs: We are working on some updates for the players packs and should have an announcement soon. 

5-DEPC Video Coverage: We are working with Gatekeeper Media again. Working to secure funding to have both MPO and FPO coverage. 

6-DEPC Skins and Putting Tourney: Vince is working with Play Greenville to secure a location for putting tournament. Skins match will most likely be alt shot doubles, checking to see if disc manufacturers would be interested in a manufacturers skins battle. 

7-Contentnea Creek Classic: Players packs have been ordered. With recent changes OB will be determined closer to the tournament. 

8-Mystery Tour & Backwoods Putting: Mystery Tour will be rescheduled to a later date, date not yet set. Backwoods Putting tournament is July 25, there will be a band playing, food available for purchase, and a 50/50 raffle. 

9-National Disc Golf Day: PIAS has a full day of events and sales planned. 3 1-round flex start PDGA C-tiers will take place throughout the day: 8-11 @ Farmville, 11-2 @ ECU, 2-5 @ Meadow. 

10-GVDG Kids: Farmville disc camp is rescheduled for August 9-11. 

11-GVDG Store: We will place an order for additional discs soon. Daniel is working on additional shirt designs. We just received an order of GVDG DiscGolfPins now available. 

12-Farmville: Town of Farmville is celebrating 150 years next year and would like to include a disc golf tournament as part of the celebrations, no details yet. 

May Meeting Minutes

 May GVDG club meeting. Location was Max's house. 

Attendance: Max, Daniel B, Joshua Lee, Mike, Vince, Jarrett

1-Finances: Adam could not attend so we do not have an exact figure in the bank. We donated $1500 from the GVDG IceBowl to the Pitt County Social Services Food Bank. We also paid Innova $961.25 for our most recent order. 

2-Club inventory: We are ordering 50 additional 2020/21 membership shirts to cover those that have not yet received their shirts. We are ordering 75 pins from DiscGolfPins. Jarrett is talking with Mitchell Frederickson about getting additional items for the club store. We can place another order with Innova at the end of May. We do not qualify currently to order from Discraft as we did not have an account previously, uncertain when they will open up for new accounts. 

3-Match Play - Max is ordering shirts for match play from Rob Gerard. Also ordering trophies. 

4-Summer events: We are looking into options for running either PDGA C-tiers or PDGA league on Friday nights through summer. Max is contacting Michael Blackmon to see if he still plans to organize some 1 day PDGA events this summer. UPDATE: Michael is planning on a 1 round flex start July 25th at Farmville and 2 round event at Meadow August 21, both events would be C-tiers. GVDG Mystery Tour and Membership Appreciation will be July 24. We are planning to run 2-3 flex start C-tiers on August 7th as part of National Disc Golf Day. 

5-Discord: Josh provided an update on the Discord server he's been maintaining for the club for the past month, currently we have 34 active members. We will continue to advertise the discord service. If we get a larger audience Josh explained some of the additional services that could be deployed to make the service more useful. These services have a monthly cost associated. 

6-Member outings: Brubaker is planning to start regular, possibly quarterly, outings of a non disc golf nature. Bowling, Wood Ducks baseball games, mini golf, and pub crawl are a few ideas with all disc golfers invited. 

7-DEPC: Brubaker is stepping up as a 3rd course TD so we are expanding the 2021 DEPC. It will now be a 360 person field. 3 pools of 120 golfers. 120 professionals, 120 Advanced, & 120 Intermediate/Recreational/Junior golfers. We are still on target to raise $10k added cash and will soon start advertising the fact. Waiting on final quotes but current plan for Am players packs is a Discmania Active basket, DiscDots, and another item. Prices are set at $150 for all professional divisions and $115 for all amateur divisions. 

April Meeting Minutes

 Meetings Minutes:

Location: Pitt Street Brewing Company

Attendance: Max C, Jarrett W, Danny B, Vince T, Adam W, Mike K, Charles T, Whitney G, Adam D, Josh L, Mitchell F

Finances - $15892. 89 total

- Scholarship: $3,000

- GVDG Kids: $1,000

- DEPC: $900 (not including Matchplay)

- Club: $9,182.22

- Operating Balance: roughly $3,000

Discord: Josh L. Proposal

- Will work as a more organized space for club activity which involves chat and topics there within. Could eventually be used for meeting purposes but not yet as of this time.

- Josh has already set up a server for the club and said he would volunteer to be systems admin if we so choose.

- 3 month trial period set to see if we, as club members, prefer it to standard FB chat. Josh will post a "how-to" get started for all members so that we can begin using it to its greatest advantages for us.

-Resolution passed 13-0 to begin working with Discord with Josh as systems Admin for a trial period of 3 months.

Farmville Work & Play Day:

-Vince has been communicating with Farmville P&R about upcoming work day. They will provide decking wood, hopefully pre cut, to redo 4-6 pads. The hope is to continue this on a semi regular basis so that the entirety of the course will be redone in such a fashion by DEPC (10/21-23)or even CCC (8/1)

-Multiple groups needed to work on pads and briars/vines on corners of 4 and 14.

-Doubles round to follow a brief lunch break. $10 to play, random draw, $2 of each entry fee going to Farmville P&R to help fund next round of tee pad improvements.

-Eventually tee pads on 13 will be moved to a drier location to allow for more optimal play in wetter conditions

-Farmville is entertaining the idea of trenching the back area 11-13 to lead to the creek for better drainage. This is a much more long term plan, but talks have begun.

ECO 5/2 at Meadow:

-105 players, 21 holes. Vince has communicated with Jason Clarke the intended layout and needs from him to complete the layout. Eastern Disc Golf has agreed to the $2/player fee for tournaments being held in Pitt County. This fee will go to reserving the park, buying supplies to flag/paint course and general maintenance for upcoming tournaments and course improvements.

-4/30 will be course readiness day with paint and flags. Exact timing to follow, if you are able please come out to help.

-5/1 will be a course work day to help prepare the course through green beautification and any other spot cleaning needed for the event

Tee Pads at Meadow:

-Vince will begin paver pad changes to 13 All Star on Friday. Frame and reset pads, roughly 9:30am (all hands are welcome). If it all goes well and we are happy with the finished product, this process will then be repeated on 12 All Star and 4 All Star as these would be significantly more difficult than the rest to get a concrete truck to their location.

- Parks has a machine that will cut precisely into the ground the required depth for new (15 total) 6'x12'x3.5" pads. They are hoping to begin cutting near the end of April as they finish up another project.

- Mitchell has volunteered to contact local concrete companies to begin working on finding the best deal possible with ideas of offering them sponsorship in different capacities to help reduce cost.

Proposed Putting League/Event: Charles T.

-Backwoods Tavern would like to host an event through Charles. Considering it is the off season for putting league, we are looking at a monthly even to start, on Tuesdays in the evening to test interest and this location possibly being used in the future for the putting league as The Buc has new owners and our connections aren't as strong there any longer.

-Charles will be putting more information out in the future as he locks in a date and cost.

CCC 8/1: GVDG Event

-No new information, will be begin looking at players packs and items of that nature shortly.

Benches at Meadow: Danny B

-Reached out to one local boy scout troop, waiting for feedback from them to see if they would like to take on the project.

Meadow - 10s Alt Green: GVDG Officers

-New design discussed with members for feedback. Will require dirt and mulch along with lumber. Will submit design idea to Greenville R&P for approval and see what they can help with. We are hoping posts, dirt and mulch at the very least. Very rough picture in comments.

Farmville Disc Golf Summer Camp: Vince

-June 21-24th. GVDG Kids will be running/hosting. Will need instructors. More details to follow.

GVDG Store:

-Proposed to move the majority of merchandise payout, at this time, to a Play It Again Sports option. Players would have the option to move their merchandise credit to a PIAS gift card. They can move all or some, but once moved it cannot come back to GVDG. PIAS will kick back 10% of total merchandise dollars. Players will have the ability to pick up their gift cards as early as the Wednesday following doubles at 5pm.

-The club plans to over order tournament player packs to stock the store. The club will also look to purchase specialty items to stock the store ie: Water bottles, hats, towels, chalk type bags, etc.

-The club will also be doing what we deemed "precision ordering" from disc manufacturers as the manufacturing side of things is chaotic right now. The club needs to make sure it is ordering things that will sell, which is difficult to do.

-The club will be speaking with Discraft to be on their 25 discs subscription to help increase store stock.

-The club will look for custom stamp disc possibilities to put the club logo on discs as they become available.

-THIS IS FLUID! This is not the end of a GVDG Store as we have known it to be, but we have to be able to pivot if we'd like to keep our events alive and thriving!

Tournament Fees:

-As a club we are working up a document to explain our tournament fees to anyone wanting to host a tournament in Pitt County/Courses we maintain.

-This fee will be in the ballpark of $1/player per round. This is essentially how we have always run doubles and monthlies. We will now be looking to institute it to outside groups as well. This will cover the cost of course reservation for events as well.

-Once we have a document put together explaining costs and benefits it will be put on the table for more discussion (feel free to discuss now) and be voted on to put into play.

-This is essentially what we've always done, but now we are streamlining the process for outside groups and it will also ensure we have simple funds for beautification and maintenance.

DEPC Sponsorship: Adam

-Disc Dot is sponsoring a hole and we will be providing a disc dot player pack item to all AMs at the DEPC.

-This should go nicely as we are working with Discmania currently so that all AMs could also be getting a basket in their players pack as well. This basket is not finalized but we are working towards it as it immediately puts players pack value in the $175+ range.

-Still very open to players packs ideas as we move forward.

-Multiple ongoing discussions for title sponsor. Will hopefully have that locked in shortly. This would include things like Skins match, Putting Competition and potentially 3 C-Tiers the week of DEPC along with title sponsorship of DEPC.

More PDGA Events: Michael Blackmon via Vince

-Michael would like to see more PDGA events locally as more and more events fill faster and faster. He as volunteered to TD events with help in the beginning to ensure he runs them smoothly.

-He has looked at the NCPDGA calendar and proposed 6/26 at Farmville, 7/25 at Ayden, 8/21 at Meadow. Everyone seemed liked they liked the concept.

-Hopefully will meet with Michael to solidify ideas and dates!

Membership Appreciation: Max

-7/25 - more info to follow

-2022 Membership tiers will be available as new calendar year for membership is 1/1-12/31. Debuting membership tiers now as they coincide with sponsorship of DEPC and future events.

National Disc Golf Day 8/7: Vince

-Proposed Flex Start C Tier on 8/7 to be sponsored by PIAS and payout run through PIAS as the store truly embraces the day.

-This could coincide with the Fire Bowl to work as a fundraiser. The Fire Bowl was a concept put out by Danny B to be a companion event for Ice Bowl. More details to follow on this pairing.

Thanks for reading. Please post comments below. I hope I didn't miss anything! We had a truly productive meeting and we had twice the normal attendance!

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