9/18 HUC Meeting Board Updates: - approved website - broad agreement to bring more people with financial connections - EBay interested in coming on to help audit (CPA) - website update: Looks good. signed contract with designer out of LA (same guy who does the Lei out and LA ulti website) - new URL: QR code for discs to lead to the website - business credit card to replace loading up individuals Andrew: - talked to comptroller: we are all paid up on back fines! - reinstatement form coming soon from them - that form lets us get official reinstated with the state of Texas - then start the process with the IRS to get the 501c3 back Op/Ops: - Fall League kicking off soon - Draft party at Rudyards - Biggest Fall League in a long time - Mixed at HSP: 11 guys and 11 ladies on each team - Mens at another location - Coordinator for each league. - Very last week will all be at HSP (finals) - Looking into Winter League fields (can't reserve from city of Houston more than 4 weeks out) - Goalty League: fields are reserved (nice fields in EADO). 4 goalty teams starting in Nov. Registration open in October. - May reserve more fields if more people sign up. Planning Thursdays right after Fall League ends Kelsey: - Disc Golf tourney TD: Stephen Kelly - Woodlands course that he likes - Will need to do more marketting. Only 1 person signed up so far - Reserved the course so it should be ours now. - Are we opening this up to the disc golf community? Yes. Maybe they'll come join HUC? There already is a discgolf group. Need to think about how we want to get them invovled - Kelsey getting bag tags to come with each registration - Open this up to Dallas and Austin as well. - Indoor tourney: location is reserved. Out torwards Katy, but nice fields. 12pm-6pm: Cam volunteered to be the TD for it. - Kelsey is the college sectionals TD - Rice fields are reserved - For next meetings: put in a bid for Master's Regionals (we had been approved before covid hit) - Do we need a liaison to the Woodlands and to Clear Lake, etc. Shiru: - Rudyards: fundraising Happy Hour event on a Tuesday - Not very specific about the split of money we'll get - want to get some raffles going - Winter league draft party with a very drafty type of event. Bring up people who are drafted. Make it fun Emilie: - Starting LinkedIn stalking - Will chat with Shiru about winter league location/partnership for the fradt party + Meagan: - Add lots of volunteers to the DEI - COVID protocol:unvaccinated requires a weekly test. 50% of them dropped out of the league - PCR tests availability could be an issue BUT only 12 people out of 172 affected by this - Will need hand sanitizer and wipes at every field - 3 dates throughout the league when we'll have to submit a negative test in addition - Discussion about what happens if/when there is a positive case - Covid Protocol will go out to everyone in the league Youth: Chad and Squeaks making head way. Chad putting together a budget, Squeaks is doing a logo - Metro hosted a Black Friday tourney a couple years ago - Adding a youth division this year - Op will help with setting this up - How can we add a clinic type hour at our leagues Ames: - How do we engage the student population in Houston? - How do we help the colleges? - Right now, $250 for each team. Need more to actually make an impact on the teams - Can we ask the community for money for this? Crowdfund to help. - Split up the slack into college and club so we can add the captains MEETIGNS ADJOURNED!