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Team Meeting - March 21, 2012, 7 PM - Wednesday
We had a healthy group of 15-20 at last night's team meetng at Wegman's. Very briefly, we covered:
- Budget/Treasury - looking good as we start the promotion portion of the year. Carrying over $8,000-$9,000 with a projection to at least that well this year, if not better - based on promotions. Dottie covered the bonus structure and, while we had an outlay for clothing, it is much lower than some years past.
- Membership - team membership is growing. Our total paid members can be deceiving since we have a # of Life Members. However, we have 3 new adult members and are receiving contact each week from prospective members through Facebook and our website. Please renew before additional charges after March 31.
- Junior Team- I communicated Doug's update and the push now is to get members signed up and renewed for the year. Also, our Junior Development clinic is on April 1 and sign up is building. Will Federico is going to assist and we are expecting bike shop support as well that day. More details to follow on this from Doug. Jim Grill gave an update and the structure of the program has been well received and we are exciting at the potential of some our are elite juniors, as well as how all the juniors have responded to our program.
- Clothing - our order from L. Garneau is expected in by the weekend, or shortly after. Robert K. will set up a pick-up next week and communicate directly. Champion items will be in by end of April
- Sponsorship - Beth Rice, Dierdre Pitney , and me have updated our sponsorship brochure and plan to condense it to a tri-fold. We have some paying sponsors back and are still in discussions with others. Most are expected back and Rich Szallai has also offered to help us make some additional contacts. Our big push now is for some sponsors to help us with events coming up and race prizes.
- Team Promotions - after the Junior Clinic on April 1, we are promoting 4 Time Trials, a joint stage race with Skylands, and our new Flemington Criterium. Should be quite a year. See my initial note for Readington volunteers. Our events through the Somerset Circuit TT are permitted. Big news is that we received townshop approval to runt the Flemington Criterium on September 2. Much more to follow on that from Doug and others.
- Race Results - Robert and Betty shared some results from Florida, Puerto Rico, and the Mullica Training Series. Please share your results with Bob Perlee as he does post to our website all year long. Big fields thus far and fast races due to the great winter and early spring weather.
- Training Rides - Juniors have had a structure program and Rob Ryan has been leading cross-team rides all winter. The Cat 4 ladies are beginning coordination of some rides/training. More to follow on that. There are lots of weeknight options around NJ including the Sussex races/Rahway River on Tuesday and Greentree on Thursday nights. Other options in PA. as well.
Thanks for attending.
Chuck