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Dark Clouds Board of Directors Meeting
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 7:00pm
Black Hart
Board Members Present: Jackson Smith, Alicia Pedersen, Andy Kahl, Andrew Bruski, Jack McFarland, Sam Solberg, Meagan Weber, Andy Wattenhofer,
Absent: Jens Selin, Shaun Sapala, Jim Crist, Maggi Heyer
I. Call to Order 7:05pm
II. Approval of minutes
Alicia moves, Bruski seconds. 7 approved, 0 against, 1 abstain
III. Reports of Officers and Committees
- Treasurer’s Report
- Includes a large scarf purchase, but will be recouped quickly since the scarf will drop this week.
- July will include payment for Soccer Stars shirts – will be paid shortly to Elips Enterprises
- Committee Updates
- Merch
- Pride scarf release this weekend
- $5 of each purchase will go to Avenues
- Pre-sale shirt next week
- No All-Star specific merch
- Pride scarf release this weekend
- Matchday
- No update
- Mar/Com/Social
- Newsletter on Thursday this week
- If you have stuff, let Andy know.
- Due to technical difficulties, website will be redesigned this weekend.
- Newsletter on Thursday this week
- Silver Lining
- Trying to figure out what to do with CANMN
- Maybe can drive in August and/or collection event in September
- Will have QR code for donations
- Oktoberfest wants a ton of people – details in the next few weeks
- Seeds to Harvest needs like 10 people for a mid-August event
- Trying to figure out what to do with CANMN
- Membership
- Trying to do scarf handout at Allianz on a non-gameday
- Hoping to mail only the last 100 or 150 (September-ish)
- All-Star game event with other SGs
- Happy Hour on Tuesday before Skills Match (4:30ish)
- Starting to talk about End-of-Year party
- Maybe have an event at Pryes in either September or October
- Partnership
- Pryes will be co-sponsoring All-Star Happy Hour
- Working on getting access to the Partnership email
- Tifo
- Pride has one
- All-Star game does not
- Party Planning Committee
- Looking at possible dates for End-of-Year party
- December 7 or November 16
- Looking at possible dates for End-of-Year party
- Merch
IV. Old Business
- Update on Action Items from June
- Dash Cards
- Still working on it
- Soccer Stars sponsorship
- T-shirts with Elips Enterprises
- May be getting something to promote for a fundraiser for one of their coaches through Urban Village
- Went really well – super happy with the turnout
- Kids excited about the shirts
- Dash Cards
- Other Old Business
- Social Media voice of the WW
- Going to start working with new WW Board Members to start talking about it more
- Hoping to get meetings open to the public to start the conversation
- Dark Clouds Incident Report
- Have a person not on the Board to monitor
- Already on the website – at bottom of Code of Conduct page
- Hoping to have button on homepage
- Add to matchday tweets too (and Twitter bio?)
- Social Media voice of the WW
V. New Business.
- MSS Auction Donation
- Basket with DC and MNUFC (by end of August-ish)
- MNUFC donating signed ball and at least one scarf
- We will find merch things
- Basket with DC and MNUFC (by end of August-ish)
- Urban Village Karen Community Foundation
- Sam will figure out what the fundraiser looks like and get info to Andy
- Balancing supporting team and supporting social things (i.e. union, abortion, etc.)
- Tifos
- Pride going forward since more support of community than the team
- Social/Comm
- We need to say something on important social things due to mission
- Also need some fun to lend levity
- We can support the team (i.e. players) and still criticize the FO
- For example, with a player signing, we make our own tweet instead of quoting the team tweet.
- Read the room
- Tifos
VI. Open to Board
- Got a call from the Aliveness Project – very happy to have worked with us for Prideraiser
VI. Open to the Public
- None
VII. Set Date for Next Meeting
- Jackson will do through Slack