Burlington, Iowa Regional Group Interest

I have a list of names that have expressed interest either from Facebook and from the flyers that I made and set up at Coral Reef in Burlington. I have also sent PM's to members that blacks-runner sent me from the area (but none of them contacted me back other then you). I have a list of 20-25 People that have expressed interest and I know 7 people so far that I know of are coming to the meeting. I spoke to a friend of yours sparticus this morning that said that him, his wife and another friend of his that wants to get into saltwater are coming. The owners of Coral Reef said they would be here and a couple others that I talked to said they would be here too. So far so good. I think if we keep at it with monthly meetings and such word of mouth will spread and we should have no problem getting our 20 members that we need.

 

Thank you blacks-runner. When you send me that list could you add in the info for the guidelines for being a region on the website or do we have to have the full 20 paid members for that too. I plan on keeping this going with having monthly meetings and such until we succeed with it being an official regional group. I figure the word of mouth will spread to where we will eventually become an official group.

 

Thank you Mattix501 for posting. Hope to see you at the meeting.

 

FishBrain, hope you can make it to the meeting on the 25th.


Sparticus, the plan is to talk about the guidelines for becoming a regional group, membership (along with ideas to try and get new members), meeting dates and locations. We will talk about what the guidelines are for becoming a true GIRS Regional Group. Will also have open discussion of what others what to talk about.


We will have monthly meetings no matter what even if we do not start out with the right amount of members for the guidelines. Eventually with word of mouth we will meet those guidlines and become a true GIRS Regional Group. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif

 

FishBrain,


Congrats on the upcoming arrival! I hope you can make it but if you can't and want something talked about at the meeting or have questions please PM me those topics and I will make sure they are brought up. I have four members counting you and myself so far that are paid members. I have a list of 21 names of who are possible members and 8 GIRS contacts (registered as users of the site). I plan on keeping this going until we eventually have the full 20 members to we can have our regional trustee voting (going by the by-laws). I think we will have the 10 by the end of the meeting to have it official and then it is just getting word of mouth out to get to the 20 members and more. This will be a Regional group sooner or later. /DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_default/emoticons/smile.gif





Any help spreading the word would be greatly appreciated. let them know about the meeting.

 

Thank you Tim1959 for registering.

I would also like to send out a thank you to Sparticus for sending me $25 to help out towards food and drinks. I will have plenty of snacks and drinks now. I am looking forward to meeting each of you.

 

husband. He figured he should join too especially for the members only events and going to the frag fest cost would cover the membership in itself. lol.

 

Joe, thank you for becoming a member. We are up to 6 paid members. 4 more to go to get the process truly going and 14 to become a region where our appointed trustee can vote for our region, which is the goal. I think after this meeting we will be there if not real close. I can't wait for the meeting myself, lol. It can not get here soon enough.