<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello Fellow Federationist, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hope this finds each of you well. </div><div class="">As I reported we had a meeting last night and I wanted to provide an update on some information we landed on in that meeting. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We discussed some ideas that the sports and recreation group would like to bring to the affiliate in 2024 and plan on bringing those details to the board meeting on January 6th before we share it with everyone. We also made the decision to start meeting again once a month starting in January 2024 and I have provided a list of those dates below. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note I left off the months of April for our state convention and July for National convention. </div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- January 18, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- February 20, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- March 19, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- May 21, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- June 18, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- August 20, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- September 17, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- October 15, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- November 19, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";" class="">- December 17, </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class="">There were other things that were discussed however at this point they are just ideas and I would like to share them more when we have more of a confirmed plans to go with. None the less the Sports and Recreation group is very motivated to show up and show out for the new year. We are looking forward to sharing our new year plans January 6th in Jefferson City and after that I will be sharing it on the list serv with the public and we will also have it on the website as well. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class="">If anyone has comments or questions for the sports and recreation group please feel free to reach out to me. </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 15px;" class="">Thank you for your valuable time. </div></body></html>
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