The Lodge Fire on July 17th would change the board focus to survival, questioning mission and then rebuilding.
Jim Garbarino, Eric Nasemann, Erik Antonson travel from camp to attend the meeting.
Possible Sale of the Camp on the Agenda
Push is on to get quotes to build a new kitchen
Paul Wright built the addition to Manwell as well as the Showerhouse and maybe Gilman as well. He was connected to camp through Ithaca.
Chairman Bartowsik feels a commitment to continue Unirondack is present. All original concepts included an ADDED kitchen onto Gilman, not in Gilman as it ended up.
This plan ultimately takes shape but INSIDE existing Gilman building. Hank dreams that volunteer crews can do the work.
Rejected Paul Wright's first proposal for new Gilman addition. Motion passes to Convert Gilman to kitchen/dining/lounge/bathroom. Ernie Bury to craft working drawings
Volunteer work to renovate Gilman scratched - going Back to Paul Wright who is asked to come to meeting in the morning!
Board decides "Go all the way with Paul Wright" Ken Hennig suggests upstairs room be added to the concept
5 new members needed and this group would go on to build the new lodge
wrestling with financial issues of running a small camp
New building to be discussed next meeting
First computerized budget shown by Dan Hollands
Dan and Suzanne to meet with Architect to go over steps to get a new building started