MINUTES OF PARADISE BAY BOATING & FISHING CLUB MEETING
December 6, 2016
Club Officers:
President, Carl Shaver
Vice-President, Gary Armour
Treasurer, John Mattei
The meeting was called to order at 9:00 AM by President Carl Shaver, 55 members present. Opening prayer was observed. Treasurer’s report and Secretary report were read and approved.
Fish Contest Awards were presented. Carl asked members to assist others trying to learn fishing in our area. Bill Booher and Carl Shaver offered to help. Fish contest rules are available to pick up.
Next one-day contest is December 15.
Don Domrose will be working with updates to the boat assist list. They are available.
Gary Armour has hats and club t-shirts available for purchase.
Frank Chan, recent past President has agreed to be our Sarasota Bay RV Liaison. Thank you Frank.
DOCK MASTER REPORT
Thanks to Gary Armour and Werner Rimatzki for power washing the docks and Gary for cleaning up storm debris from the sea wall rock area.
Dock billing is the same as last year but a ½% sales tax increase. Revenue will be about $39,000 with $10,000 expenses.
January projects to remove fixed docks between 5th & 6th St, build and install 5 floating docks with new electric and water. Move one fish cleaning station down by boat lift. Installing channel markers hopefully using old pilings removed during dock building. If you need names & numbers on dock or boat trailer, see Don Domrose.
We are having problems with netters on docks. The sheriff said not to confront them, call the sheriff and report you have trespassers on the docks.
We are still looking for someone to take over Dock Master and Assistants job.
We will be hosting Paradise Bay Coffee Hour December 19, 2016. A signup sheet was passed for volunteers.
Next meeting is January 3, 2017at 9:00 AM, Paradise Bay Hall, with Coast Guard Boat Inspection to follow.
The Manatee County Fire Department will be teaching CPR Classes again in March, sign up for that at next two meetings.
Coast Guard Safety Courses are available at their location near GT Bray Park.
BIG THING: JANUARY 28, 2017 BEAN & FRANK DINNER….SAVE THE DATE. JOYCE SHAVER WILL BE HANDLING TICKET SALES AND DISTRIBUTION.
CLOROX BOTTLES ARE NEEDED IN THE DOCK AREA, IF YOU HAVE ANY DROP THEM OFF BY THE BOAT STORAGE AREA.
MEETING ADJOURNED 9:51 AM
Respectfully submitted, Sheila Gilstrap