TXGA Board Meeting December 2023 Minutes

Attendance

President – President

Vice President – Adam

Central – Not Present

West – Not Present

South East – Patricia

Membership – Elisa

North – Michael

IT – Not Present

Education – Esther

East – Kevin

South – Cheri

Finance – Michael Cash

Secretary – Teresa Hall

Business

• Financials
• Hall of Fame Election
  • Please review the attached prior to the meeting to refresh on the rules that we put into place earlier this year to govern the process
• Texas Challenge Update
  • Path Tags
  • Packages
    • Premium
    • Better
    • Good
  • Challenge in a Challenge
  • 254 County Finishers – Event & Board
  • Region Captains needed by Jan Board Meeting
• 2024 Membership
  • Coin Design Submitted – Available for Challenge
  • Path Tag Needs to be submitted
  • Auto Renewals – starting to flow
  • Need Regional Reps to start promoting membership
• Challenge Quilt
  • In Progress – To Be Completed in time for Challenge
  • Cheri putting together 2 Oldest shirts
• 2024 Round Up – West Texas
  • Member Survey – 26 Responses
    • 8-9 Likely to attend
    • 8-9 Possible
    • 8-9 Not Attending
  • Willing to drive to Far West Texas
    • 3-4 – No
    • 10-12 – Possibly
    • 10-12 – Maybe
  • Location Preference
    • Ft Davis – 12
    • Big Bend – 8
    • Guadalupe National Park – 7
    • Other – 8
  • Some Comments
    • Cindy Salmon – Ft Davis more flexibility with lodging and other activities (e.g., Marfa and Alpine – approx. 25 miles away with lodging)
  • Survey sent Sunday to our TXGA FB Site will share results ASAP
• Cache and Cacher of the month
• Education Update

To Dos

• Brian/Adam – Review and comment on financials
• Teresa – Submit noted from prior Board meetings
• Michael M – Share list of activities that we have planned and potential point system for Challenge within a Challenge
• Kevin – Update the Board on status of the 254 County Board
• Regional Reps
  1. Identify a Captain for your Challenge Team before Jan Board Meeting
  2. Start Promoting Challenge at Events and your Regional FB Pages
  3. Encourage people to complete their 2024 Membership
  4. Last Call for HoF Nominations – Extended to the 18^th
• Elisa – put together the email list for the HoF Committee
• Brian –
  1. Check on availability of Balmoreal SP for camping
  2. Extend nominations for HoF via FB – DONE
  3. Try to reclaim Twitter account