January 16, 2008

Potomac Pony Club - Parents Monthly Meeting

Thank you to Lynn Eplee for hosting the meeting!!!!!!!

Attendance:  Marissa Miller, Roberta Johnson, Lynn Eplee, Elizabeth Kenten, Laura Molsky, Brenda Jones, Kathleen Balogh and Salome Del Salto.

Elizabeth opened the meeting and the minutes from the Nov. 2007 meeting were approved.

-ask Julie if May 4th will work as a date for our spring horse show??  Kathleen and Marissa offered to help Julie and Margaret with the spring show.

-Marissa offered to run Fun Day on June 22 with Frederick Pony Club.  It will be held at the PPC field.

-Lynn E. offered to help Margaret with D Camp, and also offered to have it at her place.

-Marissa offered to help Julie and Brenda with games lessons.

-both Lynn and Marissa offered to get the cross country lessons going and also work on getting a course set up in our field.

-Roberta and Cheryl are working on winter lessons.  They are looking towards February to get more kids involved in the lessons.

-our 1st mounted rally will be games rally on May 18th

-Julie is looking for a games coach.

-Roberta suggested we start the kids out unmounted in someone’s basement to get things started and teach the kids the rules of the game. 

-Elizabeth suggested we shoot for getting a coach that could come to our quiz session where we will cover games and foxhunting.  It could be a nice opportunity to meet the kids and so an unmounted session with them.  The tentative date is Feb. 14th (or 16th)

-Show jumping rally is June 27 – 29th.  We are looking into possible indoor rings for the lessons.  Marissa will check out Great and Small; Good News is available on Sat. and Sunday evenings only – after 5pm.

-talked about maybe having 2 coaches this year if we have as many kids going to SJ rally as last year.

-Laura asked to please keep the southern states seals coming in!! 

-Treasurer’s Report:  we currently have a balance of $11,158

-receipts are still coming in from the banquet…but we brought in $712 from the auction, and $540 for the dinner.

-a huge thank you to Diana for all her hard work on the banquet this year!! 

-Brenda circulated a treasurers report form that she would like everyone to use that takes in money for things like the banquet, lessons, d camp, fun day etc.  She will email the form out to the club so everyone has a copy they can print off as they need it.  They will be asked to fill it out and send it back to – this will greatly help her with her bookkeeping – and she wont have to keep trying to read our minds!

-we have a few potential new members that will attend out quiz sessions in the next couple of weeks.

-quiz sessions are being taught by Dee D., Yvette and Haley.  Roberta is looking into more possibilities to get sessions taught to the D3/C level kids.

-Laura has insured 3 sites so far for the club for 2008.

-quiz paperwork due to Roberta on Feb. 11th!

-Reminder to everyone about the upcoming equestrian meeting at Woodstock at Owens Park, Jan. 28, 7pm.

Field maintenance:  Lynn and Kathleen will try to keep track of the hours that folks volunteer up at the field.  Julie will have a log to keep track also.  This year we will put out a notice to the club about field days….if folks cannot make it, they can email us for a list of items they can do when they are available.  The goal is to get everyone to pitch in to help with the field this year!

-Elizabeth asked that everyone pitch in and buy the Mane and Tail shampoo that is a fundraiser for the Capital Region - $15/bottle

-the meeting was adjourned.