2015 – FCS Meetings Reports

12/7/15 FCS Meeting

Ten participants had a good time at the 12/7/15 FCS Meeting at Wayne Weilnau’s home.  We enjoyed delicious elk stew and smoked wild hog backstrap and sausage, cabbage, chips and dips, and brownies, courtesy of Wayne.  We watched Pass it On from the DVD Spiritual Outdoor Adventures: The Complete Season 10.  $40.00 was collected for the FCS Ministry Fund.

President’s Report:

Membership – since our last meeting on 10/8/15 we had four members renew their memberships and four first time guests.

Events – since our last meeting on 10/8/15 we had eight events with an attendance of 61 people, which is an average of 7.63 people per event. We have 15 events planned from 12/8/15 until our next meeting on 2/8/16.  See our Calendar and Upcoming Events web page for details.

10/8/15 FCS Meeting

Fourteen participants, including one first time guest, had a good time at the 10/8/15 FCS Meeting at Randy Rowley’s home.  We partook in our annual shrimp boil and watched Walking in the Footsteps of Jeremiah Johnson Part One from the DVD Spiritual Outdoor Adventures: The Complete Season 10.

President’s Report:

Membership – since our last meeting on 8/3/15 we had one man join the Club, three members renew their memberships, and five first time guests.

Events – since our last meeting on 8/3/15 we had 13 events with an attendance of 128 people, which is an average of 9.85 people per event. We have 12 events planned from 10/9/15 until our next meeting on 12/7/15.  See our Calendar and Upcoming Events web page for details.

8/3/15 FCS Meeting

Eight participants (including one first time guest) had a good time at the 8/3/15 FCS Meeting at the Shady Oaks Gun Range  (SOGR).  We ate pizza.  Randy Rowley led a Bible study on Duck Hunting with Mr. Murphy.

President’s Report:

Membership – since our last meeting on 6/11/15 we had three members renew their memberships and 11 first time guests.

Events – since our last meeting on 6/11/15 we had 12 events with an attendance of 116 people, which is an average of 9.67 people per event.  We have 15 events planned from 8/4/15 until our next meeting on 10/8/15.  See our Calendar and Upcoming Events web page for details.

6/11/15 FCS Meeting

13 participants had a good time at the 6/11/15 FCS Meeting at Larry Dowden’s, featuring beef and chicken fajitas, rice, bacon wrapped Jalepenos with cream cheese, soft drinks, ice tea and cookies and brownie bites.  Thanks to Larry for sharing his home and for cooking and to Randy Rowley and Daryl Shipper for meal prep.  We watched the Close Encounters DVD Destiny by Design.  $105 was collected for the ministry fund.  The food was donated by Mr. Anony Moose.

President’s Report:

Membership – Since our last meeting on 4/9/15 we had one man renew his membership and two first time guests.

Events – Since our last meeting on 4/9/15 we had nine events with 63 participants for an average of 7.00 participants per event.  We have 13 events planned from 6/12/15 until our next meeting on 8/3/15.  See our Calendar and Upcoming Events web page for details.

4/9/15 FCS Meeting

11 participants, including two first time guests, had a good time at the 4/9/15 FCS Meeting at Mr. Charlie Batts’ home, featuring fried catfish, hush puppies, onion rings, and French fries plus potato salad, cole slaw, Joan Batts’ homemade cake, cookies and IBC Rootbeer.  Thanks to Charles for sharing his home and supplying the sweets and drinks, Randy Rowley for cooking, and Jim McGee and Daryl Shipper for assisting.  We watched the Spiritual Outdoors Adventures DVD Scouting for Success.

President’s Report:

Membership – Since our last meeting on 2/9/15 we had three men join the club, five men renew their memberships and two first time guests.

Events – Since our last meeting on 2/9/15 we had nine events with 48 participants for an average of 5.33 participants per event. We have 12 events planned from 4/10/15 until our next meeting on 6/11/15.  See our Calendar and Upcoming Events web page for details.

2/18/15 Officers Meeting

Two officers attended the 2/18/15 Officers Meeting at Dos Salsas on 1431 in Cedar Park.  Randy Rowley led us in prayer.  The officers discussed event coordinators job descriptions, the event preparation grid, and event planning distribution.

2/9/15 FCS Meeting

11 participants had a good time at the 2/9/15 FCS Meeting at Ron Denison’s home, featuring homemade venison chili.  Thanks to Ron for sharing his home and to Billy Crouch and Randy Rowley for making the chili and Sue Denison for making a yummy desert.  We watched the Spiritual Outdoors Adventures DVD Bear Essentials.

President’s Report:

Membership – Since our last meeting on 12/8/14 we had one man join the club, two men renew their memberships and 11 first time guests.

Events – Since our last meeting on 12/8/14 we had 15 events with 88 participants for an average of 5.87 participants per event.  We have 11 events planned from 2/10/15 until our next meeting on 4/9/15.  See our Calendar and Upcoming Events web page for details.

2/5/15 Officers Meeting

Five officers attended the 2/5/15 Officers Meeting at Dos Salsas on 1431 in Cedar Park.  Bruce Crockett led us in prayer.  The officers discussed event coordinators job descriptions, the event preparation grid, and event planning distribution.

1/22/15 Officers Meeting

All five officers and one member (six total participants) attended the 1/22/15 Officers Meeting at Dos Salsas on 1431 in Cedar Park. Bruce Crockett led us in prayer. The following items were discussed:

1.  Events, Membership, Financial/Treasurer’s and Webmaster’s Report (Includes a comparison with the previous three reports.)

All categories with the following exceptions are equal to or better than 2011 – 2013. The exceptions included:

• hog hunts (down because we only had one last year);
• sporting clays tournaments (down slightly from the previous year; Capitol City Trap & Skeet Club had one fewer tournament than last year);
• officers meetings (attendance will be lower when compared with previous years as we now have three fewer officers);
• ministry events (down because we only had one last year);
• promotions (our one promotion was held in Buda – far away from where most of our members live),
• pheasant, chuckar, and quail hunts (down slightly from last year); and
• new members (down slightly from last year).

All in all things are going great!

2.  Event planning, promotion, and reporting equity – a discussion was held on how we can have more equity in the coordination of events. For example: Randy Rowley has sent and received over 900 emails this duck season planning eight self-guided hunts and five guided hunts (13 total hunts). If he spent an average of five minutes per email then he would have spent 4500 minutes or 75 hours coordinating these 13 events! And that’s just 13 of the 81 events on our calendar this year. We discussed reducing the number of events (very probable for our self-guided duck hunts), recruiting more officers, and spreading the work out among the existing officers. Randy has promised to act only as a consultant/administrator for the events that Ken Miller and Richard Corbin are responsible. This should reduce the amount of time that he is spending on FCS work each week. Prayer and thought is going into the next steps.