The January COBA Meeting will be 7:00-9:00 PM Thursday January 28, 2016 at Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th St, Oklahoma City OK, 73112

January meeting always includes election of the new year’s COBA officers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer) and 1 member of the Executive Board

Please let election Chairman Stephanie Jordan know if you’re interested in running for office!

Topics

Election of 2016 Officers
. President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer

Election of 2016 Executive Board Member (3 year term)
. Bob McCoy’s term is ending

Discussion of previous year’s accomplishments

Requests to Membership:
. What do you want us to do in 2016?
. What topics do you wish to see covered in 2016?
. Who is interested in presenting those topics (or others)?

Warm weather winter inspections

Beekeeping Preparations for Spring

Swarm Catching for New Beekeepers

For dues-paying member families only.

We could use help with decorations! If you have any greenery or other Christmas decorations you’d like to bring, we’d love to have some help at 6:30pm.

Please bring food to share and items for the drawing. The club is supplying some very nice things!

Please join us!!!

COBA’s last regular meeting of the year will be Thursday, October 22, at 7:00 pm

Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center
3400 NW 36th St
Oklahoma City OK, 73112

• Items on the agenda include:
  Pauls Valley bee truck wreck (suggestions for improved response/management)
  Colony Management through January
  Making Mead
  Winter feed reminders
  Time for mouse guards
  Class starting Saturday October 24
  OSBA Meeting November 7

As usual, we appreciate your bee-related contributions to the door prize drawing, and snacks. Beverages will be supplied by COBA.

While this is the last regular meeting of the year, COBA will have the usual paid-members-only Christmas party at the same time and location on Friday 12/18.

September COBA meeting will be WEDNESDAY Sept 23, 7pm-9pm at Will Rogers Gardens.

Ms Urkhardt will be speaking about bee-friendly native flowering plants.

Forest Chapman will give a presentation about horizontal hives.

Please bring food to share or an item for the drawing.

The June meeting of COBA will be Thursday, June 25, 2015, 7:00-9:00 pm.  As usual, it will be held at Will Rogers Gardens Exhibition Center, 3400 NW 36th St, Oklahoma City OK, 73112.

Please bring a snack to share and perhaps a bee-related item for the door prize drawing.

Setup (6:30-7:00)

Brief Business Meeting
Old Business
New Business

“To Do List” June/July
T-Shirts – Brief presentation by Forest Chapman regarding COBA shirts for those who want them
Q&A – The main topic this month will be a Q&A session, so bring your Qs and As.

Door prize drawing

Tear down and clean up (9:00-9:30)

The Central Oklahoma Beekeepers Association, LLC (COBA) has joined the 21st century, and has a new home.  Our old blogspot will continue to exist for the foreseeable future, but will basically point here.