Meeting Details
Date + Time: Sunday, September 20, 2026 | 1302-1409
Location: Virtual
Attendees | Voting
Anne Diggs, President
Sujitra Pookpanratana, VP of Operations
Jennifer Perkins, VP of Programs
Barbara Brocker, Treasurer
Jodi Heidmous, Secretary (voting)
Andy Rabus, At Large Director (voting)
Cullen McDonald, Finance Director
Erica Prakop, At Large Director
Non-Voting
Jamie Nelson, Comp Sweep Men Co-Rep/Race Coordinator
Susan Driano, Sculling Rep
Meris Steele, Safety Co-Chair
Bob Reichart, Director of Coaching
Andrea Fuller, Rep for Juniors today
Tieran Settles, PM Sweep Rep
Bethan Banakos, AM Sweep
Maggie Burns, Sun’s Up Sweep
Morgan Griffin, Head of Coxswains
Absent
Stephanie Acerra, At Large Director
Jennifer Tujague, At Large Director
Cortney Dell, Junior Parent Rep
Dominique Carlier, DEI Rep
Kevin Oskroba, Volunteers Coordinator
Rachel Freedman, Communications
Ellis Drechsher, Junior Captain
Jacqueline Battistini Comp Sweep Womens Rep
Andy Waiters, Comp Sweep Men Co-Rep
Alicia Morales, AM Sweep
Toni Kerns, iCrew Manager
Rebecca Hollins, Comp Sculling Rep
Monica Freedman, Safety Co-Chair
Taylor Eling, Sunday Rowing
Sherman Anderson, CARP Rep
Lucas Bockner, Junior Captain
Sana Karba, INR Co-Rep
Carin Frank, INR Co-Rep
Meeting Agenda
I. Intent and Opening Comments
Expanded CRC Organization Update
Facilities Update
II. Operations Update
III. Program Update
Winter Training 26/27
IV. Finance/Treasurer Update
V. Outdoor Rack Status and Way Ahead (Susan Driano)
VI. Adjournment
Meeting Minutes
Managerial Opening Comments/Concerns
Motion to Approve June Minutes (Secretary)
APPROVED
President’s Opening Remarks (Anne Diggs)
Thanks for the meeting date change; Regatta and Tom Kippur
Kevin and Anne have been working on the expanded organization (thanks Kevin!)
Moving from a flat organization to a Heirarchical organization
Not what we were looking for
Want to keep the speed and collaboration
Need to look at the best way to work through the work roles and how to job share without adding layers.
Jen Perkins reviewing roles that are group/program driven, and looking to shift to functional roles.
Jodi Heidmous suggested looking at the org chart from a communicator perspective and a working group perspective, might decrease the impression of extensive bureaucracy
Erica Parkop - the “working group” set up adds some democracy and transparency to the process
Anne Diggs asked about titles: Jodi Heidmous thinks titles are not as important as the individual who takes on the role, knowing their responsibilities
Erica Parkop added that the teaming might help us collate our thoughts and impact more timely, well informed decisions.
Discussion on regatta roles, Director, coordinator, home regattas, away regattas etc, however we set it up, needs to allow for redundancy and support
Impacts how we think about the other roles.
ACBA Updates:
Finished the outdoor rack installation (Mark Heslep)
9 new racks for Capital
New Locker room - in order to get lease renewed, we need to build something, the locker room is the thing we are building. In the design phase, 3 concepts late Oct/Early Nov. Rough ROM for consideration, EOY - First concept costs $125K, will be asking for $1-2M over the life of the project. Look out for opportunities to donate on Giving Tuesday.
Initial costs are going toward CE work, stay toned.
OPS: Asked for the Engineers/designers to come through at a time when the juniors are at the
Shout out to Erica, Fana and Anne Iyer, Becky Hollins, Mike A, David O’Brien
New website, new swag
Operations Update (Sujitra Pookpanratana)
Named Capital Carl Cole and Social Capital (Karen Werth)
Highlighted repairs on Sammie
Progress with Trailer driving
Potential New Drivers: Barbara Brocker, Emmie Crowley, MIchele Hill
Using USCG checklist merged with USRowing checklist
Hands on skills training and then ride-a-longs
For HOCR, Trailer planning is getting close to complete
Work crew for boat polishing. 50+ members, very productive
Launch 2 repaired $2K
So far $11+K on launch repairs
REQUEST: Move forward with launch 3 replacement - $2.2K (est) - For decision NLT next meeting.
Talking to rowkraft about options.
Bob will get out on the row kraft launch; but likes the way launch 1 has served us.
Electric motors would be less maintenance but new infrastructure is required. Analysis is needed to see if this shift is feasible / comparable / achievable.
Treasurer, Financial Update (Barbara Brocker/Cullen McDonald)
Barbara unable to attend / product is a draft based on compressed timeline, will send out final version this coming week.
Financial Highlights
Revenue - program fees from Junior, $30Kish
Expenses - working with bookkeeper to reconcile regatta expenses.
Jamie Nelson, looking at the chart of accounts to flatten and adjust how the finances are reflected in Quickbooks - at the analysis/planning stage with the goal of making tax filing easier and more complete.
There are alot of ways to look at how the club operates and spends its mone
Budget vs Actuals
Running consistent with last year
Slight surplus YTD - but might not be reflecting all expenses yet.
Director of Coaching - is it time for specific fund raising efforts?
Balance Sheet
$334K (minus the roughly $12K from BoA account that still hasn’t moved over)
Many of the fixed assets might be legacy and can be closed out
No impact to the club but an effort to clean up to the balance sheet.
ACTION: Review Depreciation and or complete re-write off to close the line.
QUESTION: Sujitra works with the insurer to talk about what we insure; can we clean the records between what we insure and what we claim on our taxes.
ACTION: Cullen will look into how oars are captured
President: How much is in the Reserve Fund? Do we have a reserve fund?
Check the comments
ACTION: Move to make the reserve account a separate account with Truist
Record correction: juniors received a $5K donation not a grant.
Program Update (Jennifer Perkins)
Winter Program 26/27 will drop the Friday session; pricing is still in the works
Outdoor Rack Status and Way Ahead (Susan Driano)
No takers on the month to month rack space.
RECOMMENDATION: look at our plans to purchase boats before we work through allocating racks, process for indoor versus outdoor racks, different or separate processes?
Anne added comment on the indoor racks - two going to Andy Waiter and Rachel Poor
Around the Room:
Juniors Update
Swim test went well, good to have eyes on thanks for the recommendation from Safety
HOCR training is going well
The juniors calendar is packed, first scrimmage is this Saturday 26 Sep.
Safety
Brandt Chvirko will be retiring from the Safety Committee at the end of the Fall season, thank you Brandt for all the hard work.
Elections
Missing a nomination for Operations.
JP asked for program reps to consider nominations.
Jen Perkins motion to adjourn, seconded by SujitaPookpanratana. Meeting is adjourned.