IV. ANY FURTHER BUSINESS

A. Second Raffle? If we do not hold a second swap, we are still allowed a second raffle. Should we hold one? Possibly

B. Site Cleanup- Not including sponsor forums, I’d like us to consider axing the number of sub forums to 10 total. This could improve user friendliness and traffic.

C. Site Images- Due to a TOS change to photobucket, thousands of images on our site have been axed. This is nothing to do with MAAST, or our software and unfortunately those images are lost unless a change is made. Please consider TAPA uploads or the site uploader.

D. Site activity, the site costs roughly $500 a year or ⅕ of our non-savings budget to maintain. If it’s not being used actively, we need to consider (at some point) if that is the best use of 20% of our budget.

Motion to discuss possibly site closure in 2018 and beyond by Zach, seconded by Mike

E. 2017 MAHY Award Nominations- We have been asked by Neptune Systems to participate in the 2017 Marine Aquarium Hobbyist of the Year which will be awarded at MACNA. We have several Nominees and we need to vote down to two so that those present today can decide our nominee for this contest. The winning member of the overall contest will receive Airfare and accommodations to MACNA 2017, a MACNA Pass, an award at Neptune’s panel at MACNA, and $500 in Neptune products of your choice.

Nominees include: Justin, Brandon, Mike, Marcello, Ty,

We, as a BOD need to vote on who best would represent our club at this event as well as who we believe is our Hobbyist of the Year.

This was narrowed down to Justin and Mike with Justin winning

V. MOTION TO CLOSE THE MEETING Zach seconded by Justin