Sims Scholarship Committee:

Minutes from the Sims Board of Directors Luncheon Meeting at the Gymnastics Association of Texas (GAT) Convention:

Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin TX:

Sunday, September 2, 2007, 12:00noon-1:00pm:

As usual, I, Greg Schram (GS), was not able to attend the beginning of the meeting due to being off-site speaking.

Meeting was called to order by Jerit Pogue around 12:15pm after members got lunches.

Members Present:

Jerit Pogue (JP) President

Tim Erwin (TE) Treasurer

Kevin Muenz (KM) State Chairman / Member at large

Sean Sims (SS) Family Representative

Michael Peña (MP) Vice President

Bill Foster (BF) Member at large

Greg Schram (GS) Secretary

Members Not Present:

Bret Stout (BT) Webmaster (welcome to come, but not required)

Mark Sherman (MS) Judging Liaison

General discussions & Handout / Agenda:

(Specifically pertaining to the Level 6-E State Meet that the Sims Board is Hosting):

The handout has three parts:

1: State Meet Budget

2: State Meet Job Responsibilities

3: State Meet Schedule

The total income from the meet is tentatively listed as $36,300 with $24,900 as the total expense giving the scholarship fund a $11,400 potential net profit.

The jobs were delegated as follows:

1: Gym Set Up / Tear Down – Sean Sims

2: Data Entry – Jerit Pogue

3: Programs – Michael Peña

4: Hospitality (Catered) – Sean Sims

5: Judges – Mark Sherman / Sean Sims

6: T-Shirts – Bill Foster

7: Admissions – Sean Sims / School (volunteers)

8: Raffle – Jerit Pogue / Greg Schram

9: Athlete / Coaches Gifts – Tim Erwin

10: Judges Gifts – Mark Sherman

11: Awards – Kevin Muenz / Jerit Pogue

12: Decorations – Sean Sims / Kevin Muenz

For more info see handout.

TE – will donate his big board ProSchool. Possibly “Jane” will come and run the laptop for this.

We discussed taking care of Jane’s room, meals, and paying her $1 an athlete. (We also mentioned submitting her name to GAT as a potential “Service to Youth” award recipient. For this we would simply need to give Jodie Trncak from the GAT board Jane’s whole name, her bio, and her mailing address).

We discussed the meet’s format – traditional versus modified capital cup. The Level 6s and 7s will probably be modified capital cup with the others as traditional. This is still tentative.

GS, KM, & TE – needed to leave the meeting to prepare for speaking seminars.

MP – continued taking the minutes for GS (see below).

New Business:

BF - Question: Should the Scholarship be given to students going to school out of state?

General discussion about the philosophy of the scholarship.

The meeting ended probably a little after 1:00pm.

Respectfully Submitted,
-Greg Schram
Secretary - Sims Scholarship Committee / Board
(214) 415-7614
greg@schram.org
633 North King Road
Royse City, TX 75189