1. Approval of minutes of 12 November 2023 meeting. (action required)

  2. Election of Club Officers  (action required)

        The current officers whose terms are expiring are Jen Livingston (Secretary), Dave Battista (Vice President) amd Jim Wolfe (President). .All three are willing to continue in their offices; however, additional nominations will be accepted from the floor.

  3. Report on Past Year's Achievements 

• 6 regular orienteering events, one ski-o event, one training day and two mini-rogaine events were held.
• The map of Hartwood Acres was extensively updated and two permanent courses were designed and  installed there.  500 additional acres were mapped for the 2025 Babcock Bog & Boulder Challenge
• 17 orienteering workshops or demonstrations were held; three of these were open to the public.
• Minor updates were made to the maps of the areas used for events during the year.

  5.  Board Actions over the past year 

• The board approved subsidizing the purchase of club jerseys for any club member that wanted one. Ryan Knecht and Naomi Jarvis designed the jerseys and 35 were purchased from Bryzos Sport.
• The board approved purchasing swag items for participants in the 2024 Raccoongaine (a buff or neck gaiter) and the 2024 Babcock Bog & Boulder Challenge (string bag). The board also approved purchase of a t-shirt as the swag item for the 2025 Raccoongaine (its 15th year).
  
• The board approved the purchase of 40 compasses. We needed to replace a number of compasses that had acquired bubbles and Jen Livingston needed additional compasses to conduct workshops.

   6.  Financial and Membership Reports  (attached)

• In addition to the usual expenses related to events ( permits, map printing, director expenses, etc.) and the items mentioned above, we did spend money on control box batteries, printer ink, our domain renewal, and hosting services.
• For Discussion: What should we spend money on?
  Donations to parks? Donation to Orienteering USA? T-shirts?   Hats?
• OUSA has changed how fees are assessed for rechartering member clubs for 2024, dropping the component related to club membership and increasing the component related to starts. The net effect of this has been negligible. For example, the recharter fee for 2024 was $664 while the recharter fee for 2023 was $676 under the the old system of assessment.

   7. Goals for 2025 

•  Hold as many local events as we can, preferably 7 or 8, in addition to the mini-rogaines and the training day. 
•  Hold workshops and promotional events for orienteering;
•  Increase club membership and  volunteerism at events