January 2023 Meeting Minutes

STLDGC January Meeting 1/16/23
Next Meeting: 2/9/23
Board Members: Hayley Day, Brett Elam, Taylor Thomas, Allen Hooper, Jeff Irwin, Joe Jaegers, Ethan Livaudais, Calvin Kinsella, Bob Waidmann
Board Ambassadors: Robert Eich, Jeremy Muehling

Review Action Items

Memberships

2023 Memberships – 160 sold

Ace Pool: $116 (pays $87)
– Next event not Ice Box but BDO 1-27

Finances

Outstanding liabilities
– Willmore Tee Signs
– Endicott Tee Signs
– Hillside Teepads

Sponsor commitments
– Hillside Teesigns (In Review)

General Discussion Items

Facebook group: private or public – PUBLIC (or some other option to be able to share posts)
– Cannot move to public, Brett reached out to Willems about other page to be used for sharing posts

MVP Sponsor Update: STLO and BDO

First available tree sponsor signs at STL Courses (Lead-Hooper)
– Minimum diameter tree, thin metal, long screws

Graphic Design (Contract)
– Ask about creating a contract?

Board Ambassador/Course Caretaker Positions
– Applications out in the next week or so (create application, board voted, group chat)
– Voting to happen at board only virtual meeting (2/9)

2023 Course Caregiver: material getting / making
– North: Sioux, Briscoe, Carrollton, Endicott
– East: Willmore, Unger, JB, Bunker
– West: Sunset Lakes, Lakeside, Hillside

Sioux Baskets – MVP Portals – in storage
– Sioux: 18 Baskets in yellow, 1 practice basket in black
– Briscoe: 18 Baskets in orange, 1 practice basket in black
– Crestwood: 10 baskets in black
– One day/weekend of replacements – you must get baskets or storage fee – Ethan to spearhead (mid-late Feb)

2023 area schedule to be posted and our schedule to be sent to Ryan for a pretty version

St. Louis Parks phone call (course/pavilion reservations meeting, Bee Tree disc golf park by 2030, new agreement with power tools, estimated improvements by us to their parks)

2023 DGPT Qualifier (STLO)

Carrollton Baskets/Redesign for gold
– Irwin, Ethan, and Hooper to be involved

Video Coverage
– Brett to talk with Steven about cost breakdown and agreements on rates moving forward

Hillside Tee Pads: single form concrete

TD Assignments – Feb Meeting

Venmo (Charity Profile?) – Feb Meeting

STLO Roles – Feb Meeting

Bylaws Rewrite – Feb Meeting

Irwin has Innova sleeves, Brett has Gateway sleeves

Events

11/25 – Turkey Toss – C Tier – JB – Robert Eich, Jeremy Muehling, Ray Vuichard, Calvin Kinsella Early
– Event Report

12/2 – BDO at White Birch
– Event Report

1/2 – BDO at JB
– Event Report

1/21 – Ice Box at Endicott – Allen Hooper
– Charity to Food Back, selling mulligans

2/12 – Glitch in the Park – Brett/Wilcox – Unger/Woodland

2/25 – Jeremy Carrollton Shorts
– Flex start C Tier

3/25 – 3/26 – Killer B’s – Jeff Willems

Courses

Opportunity: Crestwood – Joe
– 10 MVP baskets waiting for them in storage

Opportunity: Twin Oaks Park – Brett
– Update – Nothing New at this time

Creve Coeur Lakeside – Jim McGowan, Mike Fritz, Jeff Irwin
– Update

Creve Coeur Hillside – Mike Fritz, Jeff Irwin
– Teesigns by February, teepads in work

Sunset Lakes – Jeff Irwin
– Possible different tee posts (current are blues)

Logan – Jeff Irwin
– Update

Sioux Passage – Coaches – Freddie
– New baskets in storage – MVP Portals

Briscoe Woods – Coaches – Paul Schnieder
– New baskets in storage – MVP Portals
– Hold off on official tee signs due to possible changes – some old holes coming back and new pins

Carrollton – Coaches – Ethan Livaudais, Ray Vuichard
– Eventually targeting two baskets per hole – 12 more to be reordered – working on getting baskets from Gateway
– Concrete pads: short 1, new 2 to come back to “3” (remove 14), long 3, long 8, short 11, (short 13), long 18
– Irwin to update teesigns

Endicott – TC Brown, Jeremy Muehling
– Sleeves need replaced – Hooper to help coordinate (sleeves at Brett’s)
– To be fixed: hole 9 wall, hole 13 C
– Potential tweak in 11-13
– Teesigns in off season – Daniel Moss (Koster redesign?)

Jefferson Barracks Park – Aaron Walther
– Update

Jefferson Barracks Bunker – Allen Hooper, Taylor Thomas
– Update

Unger – Dan Adams, Joe Jaegers, Eric Clever
– Unger expansion disapproved until 2024 / 2025
– Alternate pads

Willmore – John Hellwig, Allen Hooper
– Off season: Tee signs to be upgraded (few more pin positions first)