September 2024

Wavemakers Meeting

September 10th 2024 @ Room 622, Forest Lake High School, Forest Lake, MN

Attendees:

Jon Brown-President, Jim Fallon-Vice President, Erica Taylor Radtke - Treasurer, Hayley Galsworthy -

Secretary, Dominick Mancini(Boys Rep) Ann True, Jakki Tauer, Shane Radtke, Ann True

Agenda - Decisions and Action Item

Girls Team Update

First home meet was last Thursday with another this week. Bengal Invite was Saturday.

New starter system works well however a strobe was needed to be connected for an athlete from the

visiting team and this required a connection piece that the new system did not have. Jim will order a

new adapter so that the strobe will work if its needed again.

Fundraiser for the girls finishes this Friday and is standing at $13715. The fundraising organization has

been smooth so far and Erica has been impressed with the communication in terms of how many emails

they send out to capture donations and that the data behind the donations is well laid out.

The goal was originally set at lower and it automatically increases as the donations come in.

Could be an idea for boys season.

Treasurer Report

Current balance for the WM, Girls and Synchro teams are available.

WM - 19327 - with 3447 set aside for technology costs

Fundraising

June is confirmed with Jon and Dairy Queen

Do we run with the Epilepsy drive ? Erica will look into the funds raised for this, its been decreasing

after the 1st one.

Do we pick a different date?

Butterbraids is set for November start and December delivery.

Other Business

Pool Records

Jon has everything he needs for the Synchro board to take to the printer to work up the design. Waiting

on a meeting with AJ to do this.

Digital Clock

With the technology portion of the WM funds we will look at the costing for a Colorado clock as this is

the ideal for coaches, if more costly.

Dom thinks that we can be more active in having school cover the costs for the equipment we need to

run a meet and competitive swim team. Rather than have WM cover it first.

Objectives and Goals

Still ongoing from last meeting.

Shane thought WM should work on a document that details what school and WM should be responsible

for. and define the school. Erica to work on what historically WM paid for v. school.

Laptop

Jim mention that the laptop used to run the meet manager system has crashed and wouldnt reset. Using

the laptop that went with the gopro video system which worked ok. Flagging that we could need a new

laptop for meets. Prefer a non school as then we don’t have to be beholden to the updates and glitches

to technology issues that can go with having the school tech.

Promo for Teams

Laura's idea of a promo video, girls team have the camera now and one of the managers is working on

clips for girls. Then it will go to the boys team.

Hall of Fame

Laura had an idea of a Hall of Fame. Good idea to nominate an alumni swimmer going forwards.

Outstanding business

Need to vote on bylaw changes from earlier in the year. Motion Erica, Jim 2nd. All passed.

Next Meeting - October 1st - 7pm. Venue - FLHS

Meeting end 19:44