Our 2025 Annual Membership Meeting was held on Zoom on July 7, 2025.
Attendance: Emrys Staton (Pres), Hanna Coy (VP), Curtiss Seale (Treas), Scott Henderson (Sectry), Efia Mallas (board member), Bob Davis (board member), Eb Eberlein, Jim Sorgatz (board member?), Terry Robinson, Barbara Robinson
President & Treasurer report (PDF)
Other updates from the meeting include:
– Membership committee has worked on better tracking of SAWUURA member information using a Google Drive account. All membership forms and camp registration is now using Google Forms. We want to look into other affordable options for member database and accepting payments.
– Facility maintenance reports that the well and pump need servicing, which will be hopefully be scheduled before Labor Day campout. Eb states he is ready to step down from the duties of all camp maintenance, including fence and water line maintenance.
– Bylawas: Board president suggests we update bylaws to reduce the required number of board members from 9 to 5, and to change the requirement that annual meeting notices must go out via postal mail to instead use digital communication. The bylaw changes will be drafted and presented at a future special member meeting for ratification.
– Discussion about no longer using a liability waiver (after input from a lawyer and the director of DeBenneville) but instead just provide all campers with comprehensive safety information – to be determined at a future meeting.
– No changes made to board members or positions
– Conversation dedicated to ideas and brainstorming about promotion and projects for camp.