Hometown Fair:

• Application
  • Get application from Hometown Fair web site and note due date
  • Decide whether to participate in lottery for soft drinks, water or beer garden
    • Not sure what revenue is from soft drinks or water or whether church would have a problem with us being associated with the beer garden
    • Not sure if doing this would hurt our short or long term chances for retaining pepper bellies
  • Decide whether to apply for Pepper Bellies or something new
  • Decide whether to apply for two adjacent spots or just one
    • Benefits of two spots:
      • Can handle more people and hence more business during prime lunch hour (when most business comes in and queues develop)
    • Benefits of one spot:
      • Booth is less desolate during slow times
      • Saves cost of extra booth ($70 as of 2007)
  • Submit application and be sure to include request for two electrical hookups (need one circuit per cooker)

Cabinet Recruitment:

• Decide on cabinet, considering:
  • Whether to combine positions or not
  • Balance of new and experienced members
  • A group of people you'd like to spend time with
  • Including one or two couples who could benefit from the increased level of participation (e.g. who have been relatively inactive in the club recently)
• Visit each couples house "by surprise" in the evening with a bottle of wine or champagne and, optionally, a set of glasses
  • Some skippers have produced "custom glasses" for their year and provided them as gifts
• Be sure to wear your skipper hat
• Bring a copy of their position duties to give them and bring a copy of all position duties to reference in case they have questions

Cabinet Meetings:

• Typically held monthly, rotating between cabinet members' houses
• Typically includes dinner
• Not just for "business" - a significant part of the social element of being on a cabinet
• Initial meeting typically used to select theme, lay out basic calendar for the year and outline skit for year-in-review meeting
• Assign responsibility to design logo and produce banner

Storage:

• Mariners shares part of an outdoor church storage locak at the northwest corner of Aviation and Rosecrans
• Mariners has a file cabinet at the back of the hall just outside the Green Room in the Community Hall
• The Mariners potluck tags are kept in the storage closet between the restrooms in the Community Hall
• There is a plastic bin with paper records that is the responsibility of the Skippers
• There is a plastic bin with the Mariners rope that is the responsibility of the Skippers
• There is a www.mbccmariners.com website
• There is a www.mbccmariners.org wiki website

Incoming Cabinet Exchange:

• Typically held in August
• Just relax and enjoy
• Planned for by outgoing cabinet

Year In Review

• Put on skit introducing theme and cabinet