LCDGC Meeting Minutes - 12/04/20
Called Meeting to Order at 8pm by President (Travis)
Additional Attendants - Gary Parke, Ed Scheuerman, Eric Hess, John Ditmore
1. Finance Report Presented by Treasurer (Scott)
a. Report for August – November (Full Report at the bottom)
b. Outstanding funds
i. Money from Glow Leagues ($240)
ii. Fundraiser Money for Akron Tee-pads ($2580)
iii. Refund from tag purchase ($300)
iv. LCDGC Ace Pot Fund ($700)
v. Moving to bank account so we can track and have visibility on trends.
c. Outstanding expenses
i. T-shirt Order Refund (TJ)
ii. Maintenance Refunds (Bill)
iii. PDGA League Refund (Travis)
d. Approve Finance Report
i. 1st – Wes
ii. 2nd - Travis
e. PDGA Club Affiliate was paid and code sent out to current members. This will be distributed to new member as they sign up
2. Election Results
a. Aaron Howard & Ian Maffett are joining us for the first time has board members
b. Jon Mcdowell and Kurt DeMerra will be dropping off the board but still be involved in LCDGC events. Kurt will still be running tournament at Muddy run and Jon will still be helping with Maintenance crews and continue to help grow that. Thanks for your service and continuing to help grow the sport.
c. Voting Participation 50% Thanks to everyone who voted.
3. Final League Report
a. Ship Rock (10 weeks) – 540 rounds (new record for ship)
b. Akron (10 weeks) – 280 rounds
c. Buch (6 weeks) – 15/week while ship was running, 32/week after ship ended
4. Course Upgrades
a. LBC – Course is in but due to Covid they are still keeping it closed to the public because they are college campus.
b. Overlook – 4 pads poured in the warehouse, Jerry continues to follow up and mark tee pad areas, but no new pads have been laid yet.
c. Akron – Emailed the borough, the email has been passed on to the park’s office but we haven’t heard anything from them. We will be following up with the park office in the new year. The project will be split up into chunks since we have 43 pads to do.
d. The Rec Center – Location Hempfield Recreation Center, A 9-hole beginner’s course. They have the funds which was provided through the extra give campaign. Possible location for Let’s Learn Events. Rec Center also is looking at an 18-hole course but this is in the very early stages and not confirmed to be built but we have people engaged in the requesting process with the borough.
5. 2021 Tournament Schedule
a. Club Tournaments
i. January 1st - New Year Day Nightmare (Akron)
ii. May 1st – Shiprock Shootout
iii. June 27th – Akron Longest Day (2 Rounds of 27 holes)
iv. August 15th – Team Matchplay
v. September 11th & 12th – Muddy Run (B-Tier)
vi. September 18th & 19th – 40th Conrad Weiser
vii. October 2nd – PIAS Open (Course TBD)
b. Red Rose Roundup 2021 (Elevated Disc Golf, Shawn Conroy)
i. March 27th – C-Tier Roland Park
April 17th – C-Tier Herr Park
May 22nd – C-Tier Muddy Run
June 19th – C-Tier Ship Rock
August 21st – Superthriller Doubles XC-Tier Buchmiller
August 22nd – C-Tier Buchmiller Superthriller
c. Let’s Learn (Meghan Wuorio & Eric Hess)
i. Let’s Learn series is a new series on the scene in Lancaster. Meghan Wuorio & Eric Hess have a passion for getting juniors and women into the sport of disc golf. Here at the end of 2020 Eric ran his first event with the help of Meghan and Shawn at Herr called Banging Chains and it was huge success. Meghan & Eric along with others are teaching new disc golfers by pairing a teacher with a group of beginners while they play a shorten course layout. This gives them the comfortable environment to learn and have fun. They are also adding some C-Tier events which will be largely limited to Women and Juniors when registration opens. We are excited for these events and seeing how they help grow the sport in Lancaster.
ii. February 7th – Location TBD
iii. April 18th – Location TBD
iv. May 16th – Buchmiller (2 rounds)
v. July 17th – Klines Run
vi. July 18th – Klines Run (Women Only)
vii. August 15th – Location TBD
viii. November 13th – Banging Chains
ix. December 19th – Silver Bells
6. Rebrand Rollout
a. Jon is going to get a list of our accounts with Kurt, Aaron and Ian are going to work on getting the accounts switched over. They are going to schedule meeting in January to discuss the process.
7. 2021 Membership (Price/Giveaway)
a. Keep Price at $25
b. Discussing some new giveaways (Whale Sac, Hats)
c. Discount code for 2021 was sent out to 2020 members
d. Looking at during shirts and other clothing as fundraiser instead of giveaway. These would be ordered online and shipped directly to the purchaser
8. 2021 League Schedule
a. Handicap at Buch on Tuesday’s (24 weeks)
i. April 13 to Sep. 15
b. PDGA Singles at Akron on Thursday’s (Two 8 week leagues)
i. May 6 to June 24
ii. July 1 to Aug 19
c. PDGA Singles at Shiprock on Tuesday’s (10 week league)
i. June 1 to Aug 3
d. There will be Glows and Warmup Doubles Depending on weather.
Current Board Members
Travis Dombach - President, Attended
Shawn Conroy - Vice President, Attended
Scott Moyer - Treasurer, Attended
Wes Moyer - Secretary, Attended
Jon McDowell - Committee Chairman, Attended
Kurt DeMarra - Communications Director
Bill Geibel - Member at Large, Attended
Jerry Dyson - Member at Large, Attended
Derrick Diffenderfer - Member at Large, Attended
T.J. Linton - Member at Large
Incoming Members
Arron Howard - Communications Director, Attended
Ian Maffett - Member at Large, Attended