NJRC Public Meeting - 1/27/2018
Location - Bad Fish's Home
Start Time - 12:00pm on 1/27/2018
End Time - 5:00pm on 1/27/2018
BOD Members Present:
James - njtiger24 aquariums (left at 3:00pm)
Julie - julie
Frags for raffle provided by:
TSM Corals
There were 12 club members (including BOD members) present at this meeting. We did discuss sharing a booth with Jersey Shore Aquarium Society at the 2018 Monmouth County Fair which no members attending the meeting had an issue with. John M provided the details for this event. The fair will not allow the displaying of two different groups' large banner at one booth. Each booth gets 1 outlet to share and that is not the whole outlet (top and bottom) just one of them (top or bottom). The fair require the clubs to have insurance to use a booth. JSAS already has insurance which can be used to cover NJRC during this event as well. Also the fair require the booth be manned at all times. We discussed that if we share a booth then it should always be at least one NJRC member and one JSAS member. At first it was discuss having two DT going, one fresh water and one saltwater with a smaller NJRC's banner in front of the saltwater DT (to work around not being able to display a large banner). John did give us a warning that last year it was very hot at this event. We discussed that it might be a better option to have a 32in TV with pictures of members tanks cycling then a DT. John told us that this event is a very large event (the fair uses shuttles to move folks around) and could be a great time to get folks signed up. Mark C had a good idea of getting cards made up that can be used to fill out the person's information and then they break off a raffle ticket side for a raffle. We then handled their payment at the booth and their information gets input into our system plus the member gets entered into a raffle. John said he will get back to us on the cost of the booth (he is going to try and see if we don't need to split the cost 50/50 cause NJRC can't display a large banner) but they need to have a yes or no answer before registering for the booth next month.
Location - Bad Fish's Home
Start Time - 12:00pm on 1/27/2018
End Time - 5:00pm on 1/27/2018
BOD Members Present:
James - njtiger24 aquariums (left at 3:00pm)
Julie - julie
Frags for raffle provided by:
TSM Corals
There were 12 club members (including BOD members) present at this meeting. We did discuss sharing a booth with Jersey Shore Aquarium Society at the 2018 Monmouth County Fair which no members attending the meeting had an issue with. John M provided the details for this event. The fair will not allow the displaying of two different groups' large banner at one booth. Each booth gets 1 outlet to share and that is not the whole outlet (top and bottom) just one of them (top or bottom). The fair require the clubs to have insurance to use a booth. JSAS already has insurance which can be used to cover NJRC during this event as well. Also the fair require the booth be manned at all times. We discussed that if we share a booth then it should always be at least one NJRC member and one JSAS member. At first it was discuss having two DT going, one fresh water and one saltwater with a smaller NJRC's banner in front of the saltwater DT (to work around not being able to display a large banner). John did give us a warning that last year it was very hot at this event. We discussed that it might be a better option to have a 32in TV with pictures of members tanks cycling then a DT. John told us that this event is a very large event (the fair uses shuttles to move folks around) and could be a great time to get folks signed up. Mark C had a good idea of getting cards made up that can be used to fill out the person's information and then they break off a raffle ticket side for a raffle. We then handled their payment at the booth and their information gets input into our system plus the member gets entered into a raffle. John said he will get back to us on the cost of the booth (he is going to try and see if we don't need to split the cost 50/50 cause NJRC can't display a large banner) but they need to have a yes or no answer before registering for the booth next month.
