Dark Clouds GBC (MN Wonderwall) September Board Meeting Minutes
September 5, 2023 - Zoom - 7:33 - Call to Order
WW Board: Maggi H (P), David Zeller (VP), Ryan Zumsen (T) Mel Birke (Sec), Anthony dSL, Andrew Beck
Dark Clouds: Nick Moore, Meagan Weber
True North Elite: Tonia Kruczek
Red Loons: –
Thunderwall: –
Unaffiliated: Yannick
Absent WW Board Members: Daniel Ditmanson
- Open to Public
- Yannick: No comments
- Committee Updates
- Tifo | Anthony
- AO used the space to paint the USMT Friendly
- BD Tifo is traced, but not yet painted
- There are no further tifos planned for this
- Only additional tifo - would be home playoff
- Finance | Ryan
- Money in is equal to money out (over past 6 months)
- February pass through payment is the only one received this year
- Ramp - Expense
- Action: Nick Moore: Provide the listing of email addresses- Along with the login, to use the finance email address -
- Thunderwall | Daniel
- Not present
- Comms | Maggi
- Need to get a comms ad out for a person to join - Maggi to write
- Old Business
- Website Review
- Resolve meeting notes issue
- Action: Nick Moore: Request is to post PDFs of the meeting notes - New & Old Sites
- Action:Maggi: Convert Meeting Notes to PDFs
- Need difference between old and new mobile site
- Chant App
- Need a decision from the SGs on whether they want to use the tool. Do we move forward with the app, or to continue with the build of the site
- Action: Each SG needs to provide who will be the admin of the site - Name, Email & Phone to Nick
- Anthony: It would be good to keep a WW Site that is unique from the SGs - Will need a policy on what WW can communicate
- Tonia: TNE would likely continue to use Discord, but then could use Chant to collaborate.
- Nick: Ability to communicate to all SG members
- Zeller: Nick to continue to work on the Chant app - Will get others onboarded - Zeller will share credentials to Red Loons slack
- Away Bus for KC Oct 21
- 6 Tickets Sold - Decision needed by Sept 20
- Reminder of cost to be posted to the Slack
- Target is to sell 20’ish
- Zarek Partnership - Pins & Hats
- Pins is included in Front Office Meeting - Not likely to happen
- Hats: Wednesday Tease - Thursday launch
- Action: Maggi to share the photos of hat with Ryan for launch
- Affiliation Process/Passthrough formalization
- Pass through stuff is waiting for Maggi - Spire account is not working for them - Unable to provide the needed banking account information
- Action: David to attempt to get into Spire account
- Artem Project Update
- Will likely host at Allianz - Will request from Kori, after Thursday mtg
- After the season is acceptable - May or may not happen - Anthony will figure out who needs to be included on the request to use the space
- WW/Exec/FO Meeting
- Nick, Meagan, Tonia, Kristopher - will be there
- Verify the Zarek matching donation to. Tonia: Shari is independently matching
- Reminder: Thursday at 5:30pm
- Housekeeping for Capo Stands & Tifo Closet
- Pin Project
- Matching Donation for Hats
- Disciplinary actions from Security
- Affiliation documents - Status update
- Tifo Ropes - Holding up 20lb weights - Inspected 2022
- Request to get a meeting with Sean (FO), Maggi & David
- Action: Maggi to message Sean
- SG Affiliates Conversation
- Action: Andrew to get the next meeting on the books
- New Business
- Best security threatening disciplinary actions
- Before the match that followed the Seattle Match
- Maggi: Tonia & Daniel were told by BEST Security, would put disciplinary action against anyone who started, or a did a chant that used obscene language - Including removal from the stadium, and / or removal of season tickets - This could have included capos being removed, if they did not stop chants - Security guard asked TNE people who started the SEA chants, and who was doing the chant, in a harassing way.
- Tonia: In a pre-security meeting, someone asked what to do if swearing occurred - When Justin was approached with this, he said he didn’t know anything about it.
- Maggi: Any change in enforcement of the rules, they should be communicated prior to the match:
- Tabled for Future Meetings
- Rebrand
- Annual Meeting/Election Playbook (David)
- Annual Report Playbook (Maggi)
- Member Scarf Playbook (Maggi)
- Increase the cost of the membership and comms plan for 2025 (Nov2023)
- Open to Board
- Maggi requested to close the meeting to Board Members - Public was sent to the waiting room
- The board discussed an internal matter.
- Open to Executives
- No items
Meeting adjourned - 8:41pm CT