Branches & Programs

PARK Branches & Programs
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2004
SEVEN SPRINGS RESORT, CHAMPION PA

President Chris Lessig called the meeting to order at 8:30 am. The following members were present: President Chris Lessig, President Elect John Spencer, Recording Secretary Judy Houck, Members At Large – Neal McNutt and Kurt Uhler.

2004 Park Operations School – Gary Pinkerton has secured the Slippery Rock Borough Park for the school on August 12th. The facility can accommodate the classroom setting, has trees available for inspection and vendor space. Gary will be coordinating the lunches with Slippery Rock. Lunch at the Cabela’s site will be “on your own”. We will be raffling off gift cards to Cabela’s as door prizes. To obtain raffle tickets participants will have to visit the vendors. Judy will supply the raffle tickets and will work with Chris on developing a vendor application. John Spencer will handle the vendor expo and demonstrations at the Cabela’s site. Neal will try to obtain some give-aways from Cabela’s for the participants. The schedule for the workshop was discussed and it was decided that the general speaker would be first, followed by the site visits, time with the vendors, lunch, the pesticide session and the closing.

2004 Park Operations School – Wednesday, August 11th – Cabela’s/Hamburg
Thursday, August 12th – Slippery Rock

Plan of Work – John Vicors from Chester County has expressed interest in assisting with the Institute for Recreation and Parks. Chris is still looking for other people who would be interested in helping.

Old Business

Raffle – Drawing was held at the meeting. 1st Place Winner – Fred Walter; 2nd Place Winner – Bob Smith.

Elections – This matter was discussed at the Board of Directors meeting. It was decided that if a slate of officers are running un-opposed, it would be listed in the “Update” with a deadline for new submissions and then the vote could take place at the next Executive Committee meeting.

New Business

2005 Conference – John Spencer will be our representative on the Program Committee.

Announcements –
Next Meeting – Will be scheduled for late April or early May.

With there being no further business to attend to, the meeting was adjourned at 9:30 am.

Respectfully submitted,

Judy Houck
Recording Secretary

NEXT MEETING – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21ST –
10 AM – FORT HUNTER PARK