Tucson Pink Pistols Board Meeting Minutes – Draft
September 23, 2025
Location: Discord voice
Present: April Gendill (President), Sami Barghout, Dane Frandsen (Treasurer), Kitty Garden, Cayce
Kenney, Roger Snyder (Secretary)
Absent:
Call to Order: 6:05 p.m. by April Gendill
Approval of the Minutes: Minutes are verbally read, approved as written
Additions to the Agenda: No additions to the agenda
Approval of the Agenda: Agenda is approved as written
Old Business:
First Item:
Regarding question of Zach taking a class and being able to write off the cost for tax purposes,
April Gendill investigated, and the answer as no. Dane Frandsen gave a general, brief
description of what is and is not able to be donated for a tax write-off by the donor. Cash and
items can be written off, services cannot, with the possible exception of billed services from a
professional.
New Business:
First Item:
Report from Public Relations committee head Cayce Kenney. Cayce reported that there have
been no volunteers for the spokesperson person position yet. Cayce will continue outreach on
Discord and the TPP social media sights.
Second Item:
April Gendill presented the status of TPP’s presence at Tucson Pride, and that no new
information about a business license or insurance has been forthcoming from Tucson Pride.
Kitty Garden suggested that we seek out our own information. Cayce Kenney presented a
document from Tucson Parks and Recreation concerning event insurance. Dane Frandsen will
reach out to the city for information on the business license. April will look into both the license
and insurance.
Third Item:
There was general discussion of t-shirts being sold at Pride and for other fundraising purposes.
Methods of sale, vendors, and prices are covered. Roger Snyder suggested two vendors that
may be helpful. April Gendill will look into them.
Fourth Item:
Kitty Garden reported on the status of creation of the Battlemaids calendar. Kitty will send out
announcements on Discord to look for more volunteers. There have been volunteers but more,
especially models, and safety personnel are needed. Work on sourcing costumes is ongoing.
There is general discussion of photographing on BLM land and the logistics of such. Sami
Barghout will talk with the mentor staff about volunteering as safety personnel. Kitty brought
up a social media post aggregator, and it’s uses for TPP.
Fifth Item:
Cayce Kenney wanted to discuss TPP policy about Board members serving on other Boards.
They were invited to join a new organization called Food Army. There is general discussion
about potential conflicts of time. Cayce states he will prioritize TPP in case of conflicts. The
board believes there are no apparent conflicts, and voted to allow Cayce to join Food Army, 5-0,
Cayce abstaining.
Sixth Item:
Cayce Kenney wanted to discuss user verification on discord, to prevent bot user accounts
scraping info or scamming members. General discussion that this falls under Cayce’s mandate
of running the discord. Cayce will look into least intrusive methods of investigation and
preventing bots.
Seventh Item:
Cayce Kenney suggested a cleanup day of brass at a BLM shooting area. General discussion of
it’s usefulness for fundraising and public relations, as well as logistics followed. Further
discussion is tabled.
Eighth Item:
In Camera discussion of HR issue concerning certain members.
Ninth Item:
The issue of whether Board members be allowed to erase members reaction emojis in Discord.
General discussion as to the appropriateness of erasing emojis followed. It was agreed that
Board members will not delete emoji reactions from any other members, in order to prevent lossof trust from the membership, but posts made in the Press Release channel will have emoji
reactions disabled.
Tenth Item:
General discussion of having an armed guard at general meetings. General consensus was that it
is not necessary because there are no active threats, but if anything changed, the board would
revisit the issue.
Eleventh Item:
Creation of a bylaw creation committee is discussed, and is tabled until next meeting.
Twelfth Item:
Tabled until next meeting
Next Meeting: 12:00 p.m. October 5, 2025, IHOP 4187 N. Oracle Rd. Tucson, AZ
Adjournment: 8:24 pm