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NGFFL Minutes: 13 December 20128.00-9:30pm Eastern

Attendees: Patrick McIntyre (DC), Jared Garduno (PHX), Sam Lehman (NYC), Wayne Knaub (PHL),

Chris Cormier (DC), Lance Burage (ATL), Joe Cooper (DEN), Phil Clawson (BOS)

7.40: Meeting Commences (Jared)

Jared read the mission and vision

Jared sketched out the calendar for 2013, built from what is proscribed in the bylaws

7.55: Football League Advancement Group FLAG (Chris)

Chris has heard from about 12 city leaders willing to help

Goals are to create four new cities; generate two leagues in existing Gay Bowl

participating cities; and generate two new Gay Bowl participating cities

Create a facebook page for this particular group

CHRISYOULL HAVE TO FILL THIS IN YOU KEPT GOING IN AND OUT ON MY END

8.00: Sin City Shootout (Jared)

We will have a booth there; LAS offered us a hotel room in hopes of getting us out there

Dates are January 17-20 (MLK Weekend)

Sam said its a major event, comprised of a number of different sports

Chris: Pete Spanos (CLE) and Ryan Peel (SLC) will be there and will be willing to help

No objections to further pursuit

8.14: Gay Bowl Liaison (Joe)

Immediate past Gay Bowl co-chair

PHX might need some help with the Womens Division Joe has agreed to drive this

PHX is pretty set otherwise, given their recent experience

Joe wants to reprise the GB Task Force to evaluate what went right and what didnt go

right

Joe also wants to create a best-practice / how-to for future Gay Bowl hosts

Wayne: PHL is forming a task force for potential future hosting

Chris: DC is also looking into 2014

8.22: Gay Bowl Experience in Denver (Jared)

Sam: Loved how organized the field operations were

Sam: Wondered if byes were helpful to teams

PMc: Loved the VIP great touch to leverage sponsors and VIPs

Wayne: Would like to see the GB Task Force create a post mortem lots of great things,

but more work to be done

PMc: The breakfasts and happy hours were great community builders to bookend the

competition, and the army of volunteers took great pride in their work made all the

difference

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8.40: Corporate Partnerships (Phil)

Sure up relationship with MillerCoors

Take info from GB players survey and city leader meetings to renew outreach refresh

and renew the pitch deck

Take up the model of the task force for corporate fundraising

8.46: Communications (Patrick)

Plans to create task forces for communications and philanthropy, starting with the former

We need to update the web site, making it more user friendly might make sense to

outsource it

Enlist a contingent of content writers

Jared would love for every board member to write up a little ditty for the 2MD each

month

8.55: Treasury (Sam)

We need to keep demonstrating what we do for city fees

We should also diversify our sponsorship, and we know Phil is working on this

We should also print flyers or banners to take to Sin City

We need to vote on our budget for 2013 in January we have $11k at our disposal

9.07: Officials (Lance)

Sunshine Cup: We have more officials than we need!

Gay Bowl: Wed like to get our officials to a breaking point for each tourney

There will be handful of proposed rule changes

9.16: Board Positions for Officials and Rules (Jared)

Lance is willing to come back for Rules

We do need to have an open process for a decision in January

9.18: Wayne

Will take on Special Projects

Will look into the bylaws and potentials opportunities out there

Very excited to engage jack of all trades, particularly helping Phil and Chris with their

areas Philanthropy is Waynes highest priority PMc and Phil will connect with Wayne on this

9.24: Adjourn