Dark Clouds Board of Directors Meeting 3/18

Monday, March 18, 2024 7:00pm

Sociable Cider 

Board Members

Present: Jackson Smith, Meagan Weber, Andrew Bruski, Alicia Pedersen, Nick Moore, Jack McFarland

Absent: Andy Kahl, Andy Wattenhofer, Jim Crist, Jens Selin

Call to Order: 7:10

1. Last Meeting Minutes
   • February 2024 Dark Clouds Board Meeting Minutes
   • Approved via Slack

2. Reports of Officers and Committees
   • Treasurer’s Report
     • No report
   • Committee Updates
     • Merch
       • Final tallies:
       • 56 tees, 59 hoodies
       • Sold 90 patches
         • some may have been returned for postage
       • Plan is to release “collections” of merch during the year
         • Various combos in relation to each other (ie: pride)
     • Matchday
       • Going to order more flags
       • Need more capos
         • Try to tag in Adam for social media presence to recruit
       • March went well
         • discussion about timing of the march
     • Mar/Com/Social
       • no updates from Andy
       • Request from DGS to re-post D4C and to tag them when we post D4C content.
       • Nick will revive calendar to share
     • Membership
       • 200 scarves handed out
       • Membership survey coming soon
     • Partnership
       • Sociable is our new partner! They may show games here this year
       • Urban Growler partnership 
       • Iron Door watch party on the 9th went well
     • Tifo
       • Working on designs for a pride tifo right now
       • Coach tifo went over well
     • Silver Lining
       • An email was sent for upcoming events
       • Voloonteers appreciation party was well attended
         • Mike Kappel was voloonteer of the year
     • Party Planning
       • None

3. Old Business
   • Updates on Action Items from Feb
     • Charitable Merch and Donations – Meagan
       • No update
   • Other Old Business
     • 20th Anniversary Update
       • Working on getting secondary logos
   • Treasurer audit
     • no update

4. New Business
   • Pride
     • Pride game is June 8th
     • Outfront will be on the front lawn for tabling
       • could be some volunteer opportunities 
       • chance to hand out stuff
       • Outfront’s Gala is in August 
   • – Where are we with quitting Twitter?
     • we aren’t ready to quit-quit 
   • – Reaching out to new people that I posted in board channel? General discussion around this.
     • Nick pinned this spreadsheet in the board channel. Committee chairs should be responsible to reach to their people
     • When someone fills out more than 2 committees- Nick or Meagan will reach out
   • – Time tracking – from WW
     • general discussion
   • General leagues cup discussion
     • Our general position is to promote open cup over leagues cup

5. Open to Board
   • Khaled meeting
     • went well, was very open to questions
     • open to feedback about community partnerships
     • Both him and Eric wanted to meet with supporters

6. Open to Public
   • None

7. Set Date for Next Meeting
   • Alicia will do it through Slack

8. Adjournment- 8:48pm