ILR BOARD MINUTES

September 13,2005
12:05pm EDT

The ILR Board of Directors teleconference meeting was called to order by President, Kathi McKinney, at 12:05 PM, EDT. Present: Karen Baum, Kathi McKinney, Sally Rucker, Mark Smith, Sally Taylor and Jan Wassink, Registrar.

Motion: Karen Baum. Approve minutes the July 12, 2005 meeting. Second Sally Rucker. 5 Ayes

The next teleconference meeting will be held October 18, 2005 at 12 Noon, EDT

The Montana attorney has filed a complaint against ARI with the Eleventh District Court, Flathead County to proceed with the arbitration and collection of the monies owed ILR by ARI.

Unit C of the ILR building is 99% complete.

The video store will be selling their business and moving when their lease runs out in 7 months. We will probably need some refurbishing of the unit when the space is rented but we will wait and see what happens.

The Suri Llama Association (SLA) has scheduled conference in Estes Park in June of 2006. Their contract with ILR has been signed and the ILR office will begin processing registrations by the first of the year.

The Association module is ready. The Show superintendent module is on hold until further input is received from ALSA.

Jan will be attending the Animal ID Conference at the end of the month.

There are new website links for complete genealogy.

Jan has some ideas for linking to online catalogs for online sales.

Jan made the suggestion that we use some of the surcharge monies to upgrade the website, program changes that would make the website more user-friendly and other upgrades that would improve the service to the members. While individual projects are not very expensive Jan has not approved these projects because of lack of funds. Jan suggested we earmark an account to allow the flexibility to work on these improvements without drawing down the general fund.

Motion: Sally Rucker. Allocate $15,000.00 from the surcharge fund for website development and improvement. The BOD will have oversight on this project.

Second: Kathi McKinney. 5 Ayes.

The membership drive will stick to the same schedule we had last year and will start in October.

There was discussion about how the Registry can save money on postage. We will have to take the pulse of the members about what reports they could receive by e-mail rather than hard copy.

FFA conference plans are coming together well according to Mark. The location is perfect for maximum exposure. Sue Rolfing has volunteered to design a brochure for handout to the participants. The conference will be October 26 through 29 in Louisville, KY. ALSA, ILR, LANA and ICI will be participating and are coordinating the efforts for promotion of the llama booth.

Mark has had contact with Penny Davidson of ALSA and it looks like will be a call scheduled for the future.

Kathi forwarded the minutes from Camelid Community 2005 to the ILR BOD. We tabled any further discussion of the proceedings of the CC meeting until our October meeting.

Meeting adjourned at 2:35 PM EST.

Respectfully submitted,
Sally Taylor
Secretary