President's Message

STAMPTROTTER NEWS - January 2025

     Business meeting minutes for 9 January 2025 with 13 members in attendance.
     Tom and Paul offered a couple of tables of items for sale and the club “red boxes” were available. We will continue to do this at future business meetings. All members are
welcome to sell.
     David is officially retired after 35 years with the same organization. Congratulations,
enjoy.
     Dues payments. I believe there are 1 or 2 who still have not paid. Please do so ASAP.
     We discussed our next June dinner meeting. Ron and Liz have offered their home for the dinner. It would be a mix of the social we had there this past June and our holiday social. David has offered to handle the menu. Should we do this or search for another restaurant? Savonna's is no longer an option.
     The 2 day July stamp show at the Polish Club in Albany has been cancelled. FOSC will
hold a third 1 day show in July to fill the void. Do we want to attend 3 shows a year?
This is a benefit of your membership; the club pays for the space and all are welcome to
sell.
     We will be looking at our Constitution and By-Laws, copies are attached. The original was  written when the club was much larger. This provided more volunteers which are a subset of the total membership. We hope to make changes that a group our size can accomplish and that fit how we currently do business. Suggestions are welcome. Motions for changes need to be made, discussed and voted on.
Here are a couple of opportunities to you help out:

• We could use a coordinator for the material that Dick puts on our sites. Light work load, let your creative juices flow.

• We are considering replacing our lone Procurement Officer with a small (2-3 folks)
  Procurement Committee responsible to locating, purchasing, storing and preparing lots and collections for club sales at auctions and shows.

• We will talk more about both but if you are interested in helping out with either let me know.

     Our next auction is Thursday 23 January.
     February business on the 13th and auction on the 27th.