The FWDBC Board of Directors met July 22 to discuss many important issues facing the Club, all of which arise out of the circumstances presented by the coronavirus. Its decisions were:

1. The Club will remain closed until March 1, 2021, unless a vaccine becomes widely available sooner. Input from the player survey, COVID cases rising in our area, and the impossibility of social distancing while playing bridge were factors in helping the Board make this decision.
2. Since our Annual Meeting cannot be held this year, Board Treasurer Carl Wheeler and I will email a report on the status of the Club to players in December.
3. Because it would also be difficult, if not impossible, to hold our annual Board election, the Board has asked members whose terms expire this year (Carl Wheeler, the current Treasurer; Judy Nelsen, the current Secretary; and Joe Kohne) to serve another year. In the December 2021 election, these seats will be filled for a two-year term and the seats normally expiring in 2021 will be filled for the usual three-year term.
4. The Club is financially sound and can sustain being closed. Because it won’t be open for an extended time, the Board has decided to waive all Club membership dues for 2021.

If you haven’t been playing online (Bridge Base Online), please consider doing so. When you play in the Indy Virtual Club Games, part of your entry fee is returned to our Club.  If you need help getting set up on BBO or learning how to use it, I’m happy to help. (See also below.)

Kim Grant, Board President