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Thursday, September 04, 2008
13 Aug 08 Meeting Minutes
By bubulkaj @ 5:03 PM :: 1299 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating
 
Subject: August 12, 2008 official meeting minutes reported by Larry Kimble

Meeting called to order by Dale Merritt. Those in attendance were Dale Merritt, Larry Kimble, Doug Powell, Brice Romero, Mike Bachkosky, Joe Bubulka, and Jeff Ports. Not in attendance were Stu Wange and Shawn Hoover.

The board regrettably accepted the resignation of Shawn Hoover, APLA secretary, due to family issues. There was not a secretary report.

Larry Kimble presented a proposal to combine several secretary time-consuming functions into the treasurer position. The proposal would combine proving new member packets, receive memberships and convey these to the administrative assistant, publish 3 to 4 newsletters per year, receive hunt test results, and coordinate membership issues. This proposal was for a paid position of $250 per month.
Motion made by Dale Merritt and seconded by Jeff Ports. Motion passed unanimously by the board.
Since this proposal does not fit within the current APLA by-laws. This proposal can not go into effect until a by-laws change is passed by the membership. Until the vote is finalized Larry Kimble is fulfilling these functions. A committee of Dale Merritt, Brice Romero, and Steve Ward, subject to his agreement, is formed to revise the by-laws for this proposal membership vote. As part of this motion was drop the secretary’s position as an elected officer. A second part of the motion was to ad a vice president officer position. This retains the same number of officers and directors.

To fill in the remaining secretary functions Dale Merritt will contact the last election’s first secretary runner-up, Holly Cart, to see if she would serve out the remaining term. This is as prescribed under our current by-laws.

There are three directors whose terms expire at the end of 2008. Those directors are Joe Bubulka, Brice Romero, and Stu Wange. A call for director’s nomination letters will be made on the website and through a mass email to all current members.
A motion was made by Mike Bachkosky and seconded by Jeff Ports for Larry Kimble to perform the secretary’s election related duties for the upcoming director’s election. The motion passed unanimously by the board.
The deadline for the letters is September 20th. Nomination letters are to be in both written letter form to be received and also emailed to Larry Kimble. The nomination letters and ballots are to be mailed out in early October.

An election committee of Mike Bachkosky, Jeff Ports, along with Wendell Wright and/or Julie Knutson was formed.

The treasurer’s report by Larry Kimble reported the current total cash balance of $21,738.99, as compared with the January 1, 2008, balance of $27,961.51. Membership income is at $9,695, which is down slightly from 2008. Web site income is $1,200. Operation expenses for categories; excluding the hunt test expenses, but including the $1,666.51 in hunt test equipment purchases; is $11,707.22. Spring hunt test income is $18,082 with the expenses at $22,565.94. A motion was made by Doug Powell and seconded by Jeff Ports was passed unanimously by the board.

Doug Powell reported on the new APLA clothing line coming to the web site within the next couple of weeks.

Jeff Ports and Larry Kimble presented a discussion website issues. These issues are bothersome to some members and non-existent to others. Joe Bubulka, “father” of the APLA website, reported that our 3 ½ year old website was done in version 1.13. Now, version 4.82 is available. Joe recommended Rion Isthomitis, an APLA member, if available, to do this work. Joe expects this work could be done for approximately $2,000. There are many new and enhanced features available with the new software. There is a question if previous forum threads will be transferable to the new software.
A motion made Dale Merritt to upgrade website software with a second by Larry Kimble was made and passed unanimously by the board. Joe will be contacting Rion on doing the software upgrade.

Jeff Ports reported on his hunt test staffing difficulties with MPR judges.

Jeff Ports and Doug Powell made a motion to adjourn. The motion passed unanimously.

Report by Larry Kimble, Aug. 20, 2008
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