PNW Quizzing General Assembly Meeting Minutes

The general assembly of the PNW Quizzing ministry organizations meet at lunch on Saturday at the District Championships meet. The organizations represented were:

Gryphon Shafer led the meeting.

New Board for 2022-2023 Season

Gryphon discussed the idea that given our expected size next season (likely 5 organizations but possibly up to 7 organizations), it may be wise to have the board consist of 1 person from each organization. There was general agreement around this proposal.

The following motion was passed almost unanimously (Gryphon was the lone nay vote):

The new board for 2022-2023 season shall consist of: Gryphon Shafer as District Coordinator and Board Chair, Andrew Borden as Rules Committee Chair and Board Vice-Chair, Sharalyn Shafer as Treasurer, and Kristine Delamarter to represent Madras.

The general assembly will consider who from each organization will represent that organization. Madras with Kristine and ABC (under the new organization's name) with Andrew will already represented. So the expectation is there would be at least 3 additional board members to vote in.

This will require a change to the bylaws, which currently set the board size at 5 total.

Also, Gryphon suggested that someone on the board should be appointed "Assistant Treasurer" or "Vice Treasurer", so they could be trained how how the financial aspects work and would then be able to be a second pair of eyes on our financial records. The hope is that 1 of the 3 new to-be-appointed members would volunteer for this role.

2022-2023 Season Decisions

Next season, we'll be going back to our regular schedule of:

The pre-season meet will remain a Saturday-only meet. There was some discussion outside of the general assembly meeting about keeping it outdoors, weather permitting.

Then the regular season meets would move to be Saturday-only for quizzing, but have optional fellowship/fun opportunities Friday afternoon/evening and optionally attending Sunday morning worship service together. The idea thus being that while quizzing itself would only happen on Saturday, teams could each decide to what degree if any they participate in any Friday or Sunday activity.

Then for District Championships, the general consensus seemed to be we'd try to host again at Double K with the same Friday, Saturday, Sunday format, providing significant opportunities for quizzers to gather socially.

If you have any questions, would like to participate in quizzing, or would like assistance starting a quiz program, please email us: contact@pnwquizzing.org