12.1.2020 BoD Zoom Meeting

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12.1.2020 BoD Meeting 7:00 pm Zoom
Attendees: Shawn Dean, Adam Nitschke, Andrew Sharkey, Justin Cook, Austin Trizzino, Bill Musselwhite,



I. We agreed to record meetings for future reference.

II. Buying a new PAR Meter from Aquarium Specialty.

• Vote – All in favor of buying the additional PAR meter at the discounted price.

III. Priorities for the near term.

• Forum rules – Andrew & Justin going to wrap these up for presentation to BoD in the next two week.
• Logo – Andrew will get back into it after we finish up the rules.

VI. December Holiday Meeting

• Should we go 100% virtual? All agreed it was a good idea given current Covid situation.
• Discussion about how to best run the raffle for supporting members only via Zoom.

VII. Opening up BoD forum for public view.

• Allowing read-only access to BoD forum for everyone.
• Also posting BoD in-person and Zoom meetings.
• Vote – All in favor of making BoD forums and meetings open to public view.

VII. Motion to allow members to edit their build threads.

• Vote – All in favor of allowing members to edit their build threads.

VIII. Encouraging all BoD members to stick to the forum rather than outside apps.

• We’ve been having a lot of conversations on texts and slack.
• Nothing wrong with outside chat but keeping conversations in BoD forum to ease of use.

IX. January in-person meeting.

• Covid numbers are looking to get worse.
• No in person meeting for January.
• Will re-evaluate for February and future meetings.

X. 2021 Expo

• Spring is out, Fall is the only viable option as far as scheduling goes.
• Possibly in Early October????
• 2021 MACNA is September in Atlanta.
• Goal set to get a date on the books in January 2021.
• Potential to have a large ARC frag swap in April 2021.

XI. How to give more to local fish store sponsors.

• In store Youtube videos.
• Educating sponsors on how to maximize the value of their ARC sponsorship.
• ARC needs to update their sponsor list.