Members present: Commodore Spencer Raggio, Vice Commodore Herm Lintner.

Old business and committee reports were tabled until the September 12 meeting, in anticipation of full attendance by the board.

Raggio and Lintner discussed the potential slate of officers for 2001. The following people have expressed interest in the positions following their names: Herm Lintner (commodore), Chuck Thorne (vice commodore), Buck Bryan (treasurer), Deb Katz (social chair), Bill Morris (newsletter/PR chair), Spencer Raggio (board of governors). We need to fill the remaining slots: race committee chair, secretary, cruise committee chair, membership chair. Lintner also requested that Raggio fill the newly created role of Chairman of the Board of Governors with the intention of creating a functional and diverse board, with representation from the Lake George Club, Y-Knot, Harris Bay, Yankee, Chingachgook, the J/24 and J/22 fleets if possible.

Lintner and Raggio also discussed the problem of distributing the workload on the officers and committee chairs, and the importance of finding ways to make everyone's life easier in that respect. One option: stricter adherence to creating a true committee; rather than nominate people to the post of committee chair and then ask them to form their own committees, try to nominate committee members and then ask them to choose their own chair.

Lintner agreed to talk to the following people about the following committees and positions: Kevin Joyce, Sam Walters, John Brodie, Bob Rippel, Greg Liberatore, Bob Miller (race committee), Kevin Joyce, Greg Liberatore (membership). Raggio agreed to talk to: Susan Richardson, Maryellen Rudolph, Bill & Sally Engelhardt (secretary, membership).

Next on the agenda: the club's abysmal communications record this summer. Currently, with the newsletter our only reliable means of disseminating information, we're far too dependent on that one person/position. Suggestions to diversity our communications efforts: email and the web enabled us to stay in touch with the wired minority this year and will become increasingly more important — Raggio agreed to continue maintaining web site and emailing list; Lintner agreed to talk to the Brodies about buying and installing a weatherproof bulletin board on an outside wall at Yankee for posting information to the membership; a postcard series containing dates, times, committee boat assignments and post-race party locations can be created and produced well in advance of the sailing season, and given to a mailing house for timed release throughout the summer; schedule membership mailings to new and returning members, and reminder mailings to lapsed members.

Meeting was adjourned at 8:30 pm.