February 16, 2012
CAPITOL VOLKSSPORT BOARD MEETING MINUTES
Six board members, plus Peter and Perki Sweet and Lloyd Berry, met at the Berry home
At 5 pm on Tuesday February 14th. Several items were discussed:

1.  We need a nominating committee to elect new officers. They should be appointed by April at the latest. New officers take over in July.

2.  There will be a train trip to Portland on Thursday 19thApril more information at the next meeting.

3.  We will be having an event at Burfoot Park on May 12th. Susan will reserve a shelter from 9am to 3 pm. The cost is $40. New members Ann and Debbie have offered their help for this event. Debbie will make cookies and help with lunch for the ESVA meeting which is being held in conjunction with the event. 

4.  The Senior Games will be similar to last year. There will be more information later on this.

5.  As of right now the Millersylvania event is still on for September. The park is currently closed but we expect it to be open by August.

6.  Contrary to what you may have heard the lighted ship parade is still on in December on the same day as our Christmas walk. 

EVENTS FOR 2013

We hope to have the Ocean Shores event in February of 2013. Bonnie said we need to start on a feasibility study now.  Several members will go to Ocean Shores this weekend to check things out. We will need a committee and a trail master also.
 
PICNIC
 
We decided to have the annual picnic at Tumwater Historical Park again this year.
 
MEETINGS
 
It was suggested that we have the program before the business meeting in future. We are still meeting once every two months. Sheila suggested that we have a board meeting every month.
 
Peter and Perki made some excellent bookmarks with our walks on one side and our events on the other. We hope to use them instead of the brochures. It was suggested that we add a phone number to them however.

Susan asked how we want to handle carpooling to weekend events. Generally those who want to carpool should meet at the Martin Way Park and Ride at 9 am. But we didn’t reach an agreement about how to make sure there was a volunteer to drive for those who wanted to carpool. 

Several people said we should also have a walk start time since many members prefer to drive so they can go somewhere afterwards.

We do need more clarity on the carpool situation.
Upcoming events that might require a carpool are:

1.  Northwest Trek 		- March 3rdand 4th
2.  Bainbridge Island 	- March 24th
3.  Vancouver		- March 25th
4.  DuPont			- March 31st
5.  Seattle			- April 7th
6.  Puyallup			- April 28th

The Daffodil Club is having several walks in our area and we hope some of you will join them they are:

1.  South Bay		- February 29th
2.  Lacey Thrive		- March 14th
3.  Bayview			- October 17th
4.  Lacey Safeway		- November 14th
5.  Bayview			- December 12th

The meeting adjourned at 6 pm and Susan served us four different kinds of delicious soup with cornbread muffins.

Submitted by,

Lesley Willardson (Secretary)