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Meeting Minutes

Board Meeting Minutes – 07/03/2024

Zoom Meeting: 7:04pm CST
Board Meeting Members: Joe McLaren, Maria Carrasco, Josh Byrd
Board Members Absent: Isa Ruiz
Others in Attendance: N/A

Marketing Group

  • Social committee met – Sarah, Joe, Isa, Harvey
    Airtable is being beneficial for organizing social posts
  • July 4th post tomorrow
  • Working on setup series – encourage teammates to film each other to send to team

Helpful People & Roles

  • John Kim might be willing to help the BOD with duties
  • Need a 5th board member – search for more people willing to be involved
  • Isa to help on website
  • Joe to continue working on web store

USA Skate Meeting

  • USAS Memberships updates – Full athlete list sent

Website

  • All bios are fixed/up to date
  • Donations spreadsheet have been updated 7/1. Donations messages were sent to each athlete with their amounts.
  • Lari Ann’s race is added to events calendar
  • Josh to add KT Tape logo to partners section on the homepage
  • Discussion about moving website hosting to a server we own.
    • WPengine: $300/year
    • Michael McMahan to update website server php version and SSL certificate.

Nationals update

  • Locations not being approved. 
  • Josh to continue planning race.

Team Sponsorship Outreach

  • Any progress?
  • KT Tape is signed – looking to do a blog post about the team
    Cross-post on USA website in Important Announcements
  • Ongoing prospective partnerships: Jen’s car dealership, OlympiaGear, GoPro, Crocs

Fundraising

  • Explore setting a fundraising goal of $35k
  • Explore connections for Fandiem campaign – Nathan Groff, Arab, etc.

World Skate Games

  • Team Advertising/sponsorship banners
  • Team jerseys
    • Josh to get specs from Judi and design jersey – team vote on design
    • Joe/Other to heat press back of jerseys (name & personal sponsors)
      Deadline for sponsors: 7/26
    • Get quotes for Team Jerseys: report with quotes on 7/17
      Maria to get quote.
      Josh to get quote with Lucid Ink.

Team communications

  • Discord server set up. Need to add deadlines and then send to team.
  • Google Form for athlete submission of things needed.
  • Announce partnership with KT Tape to team on 7/8.

Move to bi-weekly meeting cadence leading up to WSG.

Next Board Meeting: 7/17 @ 7pm CST
Meeting Concluded: 9:58pm CST