Jacksonville Area Golf Association

                                                           JAGA Board of Director’s Meeting

                                                                 January 20, 2009

Officers in attendance:  Jim Edwards, Bob Streightiff, Joe Power, Gary Owensby, Jerry Kay, Barney Poston, Lee Crowe.  Additional attendees were Al Levene and George Halvorsen

Call to order:  9:05 a.m.

Past President Lee Crowe officially passed the gavel to incoming president, Jim Edwards.

Bob Streightiff started the discussion with the subject of radios used by JAGA for tournament use.  Bob has done some research on the subject and reported the TC200 is being used by most major golf organizations, at a cost of $300 each. We have $3500 left in the budget.  Eight out of ten of the old units are still working.

Al Levene said we could use 14 but 10 will suffice at a normal tournament.

Joe Power suggested the radios be put on hold and take a good look at what is available.

President Jim said some had suggested moving the Pro President because of possible conflicts.  There are so many tournaments, it seems we will always be in conflict somewhere.  Lee Crowe suggested we set out tournament dates and leave them there.

Point was made that Mark Blakewood was in charge of the pro tournament and perhaps we should check with him.  President Jim said we need to be flexible. 

Discussion about whether we should encourage guests at meetings was engaged.  Timuquana has asked that we not have guests at their venue; however,  agreement was made that we should leave policy as is for other meetings.

Bob Streightiff asked if we wanted minimum number of meetings attended to be able to play in Pro President?  Lee Crowe suggested we send letter or e-mail to directors stating a warning of attendance necessary to play in tournament.

Joe Power made a motion that each club has at least two directors.  They must have one director attend nine out of the eleven meetings prior to the Pro President in order to be eligible to field a team.  Barney Poston seconded the motion.  Motion was carried unopposed.

Bob Streightiff opened discussion concerning what “freebees” should JAGA distribute at tournaments.

Since all clubs have pencils, they were not reordered. It was suggested we go with just tees and markers.  It was decided to stay with those items; but, distribute them in small quantities at a time.

President Edwards noted that Raymond James does not want Tom Tierney to sign JAGA checks, considering it a conflict of interest.    Lee Crowe offered that Ed Whitten would make a good treasurer, if he would take the job.

Joe Power began discussion of the Junior Tournament.  George Halvorsen has begun the process of finding a new venue.  He asked George to summarize their meeting last week with officers of the N. Florida Junior Golf Association.

George Halvorsen said that they are interested in partnering with JAGA in running the Jr. Tournament.

Cathy Grant, their director, expressed a desire to meet with JAGA and help organize the tournament.  Thus, a meeting took place last week.  He said Marla Anderson appears to be the engine that runs the organization.  She is a former JAGA scholarship recipient and women’s tournament winner.  Therefore, she is familiar with JAGA.  He went on to say they do only jr. golf.  And, they want to make the JAGA Jr. the premier jr. tournament in the area.  He read a list of results of the meeting and summarized by listing the following recommendations:

a.        We accept their offer to use their website

b     We accept their help in promoting the tournament

c.        We accept their offer to use their player list to bolster our tournament.

The bottom line being to increase our tournament’s player participation from 58 to 78.

Joe Power said that we have much of the same expertise as they do in scoring techniques with Barney Poston.  (Blue Golf is what they use).  Perhaps Barney and they can compare notes to see if anything of interest can be found.  Point was made that several clubs are interested in hosting the tournament.

Board agreed that this is a step in the right direction.

George offered that of the parents that he surveyed felt the Hurricane Tour is the best organized, with JAGA being a close second.

Joe Power asked for motion to accept the first three steps offered and Bob Streightiff seconded.  Motion carried.

Meeting was adjourned at 9:55 a.m.

Submitted by Secretary,

Gary Owensby