February 2004
Meeting Minutes

FALCON FANATICS

Minutes of February 10^th Meeting

At 7:10pm, Joe Cooper called the meeting to order.  The minutes were read and Ray Brown gave the treasurers report.

Joe explained the proposed membership dues again.  Mel Blackstone made a motion to take off the wording “families and singles” and have it read:

          $20.00 per person

          $5.00 per T-shirt

          $28.00 per golf shirt

Motion was made, seconded, and passed.  April 30^th is the deadline for dues to be paid.

Joe indicated his number one priority was to send out the golf shirts with the new logo for last year’s orders.

Joe announced that we no longer need a “Club Coordinator”.  A “Tailgate chairperson” was still needed and Ted Owens volunteered.  A “Newsletter Editor” is still needed.

We discussed sending birthday cards to players.  Motion was made that we also include former players, who had been guests at one of our meetings, Falcon staff, and cheerleaders.  Motion was made, seconded, and passed.  Chuck Ruffino volunteered to handle this project.

Various ways to build our club and attract new members were discussed.  Joe asked each of us to come up with one idea and bring it to the next meeting.

Parking was discussed.  As of the February meeting there was no contract, and the number of spaces was not known.  This will be known in a couple of months and Joe is trying to get us all back together in the “gulch.”   Angela Mitchell does news programs and if we can all get together she will get us on the news every week.

New Business:

Cathy Allen said she would work on getting the “Big Raffle” that we have every year together again.

At 7:45pm Joe introduced our guest speaker, Gerald Riggs.  Gerald Riggs was a dynamic running back for the Atlanta Falcons from 1982-1988.  He gave a wonderful speech, answered questions and signed autographs.  We all wished him luck in his new sports drink venture.

Joe made a last announcement.  One of our members, Joe Hinton, age 19 from Appleton WI, died in an auto accident December 20^th.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:40pm.

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