21/22 Board Drinks from the Boot, plus Town Hall - Tue, Oct 26 2021
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Event Type: Meeting
Event Location: Zoom link to be sent to attendees
Date(s) & Time: Tue, Oct 26 2021  6:00 PM
Registration Cut Off: Tue, Oct 26 2021 5:30:00 PM
Event Duration: An hour or so
Difficulty Rating: D1: Easy
Event Coordinator(s): Rhonda S
Member Cost: None

Who's Invited:  Members Only, 21 And Older Only
Maximum Group Size: 100
Maximum No. Guests: 0
Minimum Group Size: 6
Maximum No. Guests Per Member: 0
Number: 
- 6 Registered
- 0 Wait Listed
Are Dogs Permitted:  No
Itinerary:
Official "swearing in" (i.e., "Drink from the Boot") for the 21/22 COC Board, plus Town Hall.

Board members: Agenda:
  1. Welcome from Rhonda
  2. Introduce each board member:
    1. Name
    2. Role
    3. *Drink From the Boot!
  3. 5-Minute Presentation - Goals for this term
  4. Town Hall:
    1. Member questions and
    2. Member suggestions. We are specifically looking for suggestions related to our goal of regrowth - attract new members and new event coordinators, but we'll take all relevant suggestions.

*Drink From the Boot

This is an old COC executive hand-off tradition. This year's Board is comprised of members of last- year's Board, but there's no harm in "renewing" our Drink From the Boot for the new term.

At the Oct 24 2006 AGM, the tradition was born. When I (Rhonda) was going to hand the club over to the first new executive team, I was super excited and wanted to get a large trophy that could carry an engraved mini-plaque for each executive team on it. I looked at trophies, but they all left me bored or frightened for my credit card, so I got creative. Someone procured a nasty old hiking boot from Glenn D, and I got a piece of driftwood, and I glued the boot, and two mini-plaques (one for my outgoing team, and one for the incoming team) onto the driftwood.

The night of the AGM, I was so excited to present the new team with this delightful monstrosity.

The first person to show up was Marty S, and we were enjoying a chuckle over the old nasty boot driftwood monstrosity, when he says, "you should make them drink from the boot to seal their commitment to the COC".

When it came time to present the boot to the new team, we all started pressuring them to "drink from the boot". One of the new VPs, a fellow named Mike, nestled his glass of beer into the opening/heel of the nasty old boot and drank from it, essentially "drinking from the boot" and initiating a tradition that we carried on right up until the 2009 AGM, and then revived after the 2020 AGM.

Our original boot is long gone, and in these Covid times we wouldn't be able to all drink from the same boot anyway, so for this meeting, each board member should prepare thusly: Have a boot (preferably an old nasty one... a hiking boot if you have one) handy, and a large glass (or bottle) of preferred beverage

Our promo photo is of our much-loved (and sorely missed) Legendary Ed "drinking from the boot" at the 2007 AGM



Required Items to Bring:
- Zoom software on your computer
- *An old nasty boot
- A beverage of your choice in a large glass or bottle

* Board members only
Recommended Items to Bring:


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