Present: Dan Gillespie, Michelle Strain, Patrick Forestell, Evan Scully, Dan Wortman, Mike Keech, Mike Currie, Shelley Harding, Scooter, Darren Wheaton.
Regrets: Kevin Estabrooks, Sarah Carrigan-Kent, Zach Ball, Iain MacLeod.
Financial Report:
- Similar to predictions from Scooter’s projected spreadsheet.
- $5.50 pitcher specials during Birthday Week were notable. Very strong sales. No profit on those pitchers, but increased traffic and sales each night as soon as the pitcher specials ended gave a good boost to the end of the month.
Promotions Report:
- Open on New Year’s Eve. Don’t expect a big crowd, but we have a small group of alumni who have booked a social event.
Security Report:
- One very strange security incident, which involved a slight altercation in Pub on the Last Day of Classes. However, most of the background and issues occurred outside the Pub in the weeks leading up to the incident. Scooter turned everything over to the University to deal with.
Old Business:
- Board members discussed three long-term (fiscal 2009-2010) options that Darren had presented to all Board members. Each member gave their personal choice among the three options, and some brief reasons for their decision. Although many members noted that none of the options were particularly attractive, there was unanimous consensus to forge ahead and operate under the assumption that we are not insolvent yet. Members also recommended spending a small budget on some infrastructure projects that would show students that we really are trying to respond to their needs. University approved the projects that were discussed (follow-up on paintings by Corey Isenor, and construction of a small portable DJ booth).
Other Business:
- Recommended that Scooter meet with Gracie’s Café and try to see if any cross-promotional ideas can be attempted.
- Talked about the effectiveness of the Pub’s Facebook Group, and the possibility of migrating it to a Fan Page instead. Scooter was going to research this idea.
- Suggestion to allow each residence to add a special “Theme Drink” to our menus, and they get to choose the name and ingredients. Scooter planned to address this possibility over the break.
- Talked about potential changes to the Board structure in the future.
- Talked about asking Commerce Groups to consider using the Pub as project data.
Next meeting: January 11th, 2010
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