ILR BOARD MINUTES

November 21, 2006
12:05 pm, EDT

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

Motion: Sally Rucker, approve minutes of October 10, 2006 meeting. Second: Mark Smith. 4 Ayes.

Next board call will be Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 12:00 PM, EST.

Jan reviewed the finances and answered questions from the board regarding them. The membership renewal packets have been mailed.

The board approved to pay Karen Conyngham's expenses for USAHA to the limit of the donations made to the Government Relations fund by members. Sally Rucker will write an article for the next ILRe-port explaining the two Government Relations funds and how important it is for members to donate to the maintain the llama community's presence at USAHA.

Mark Smith reported that FFA was a huge success. He was most impressed with the questions posed by the young people in attendance and thought that many of them had learned a lot from the 2005 llama participation. Unfortunately the FFA conference will be held the same weekend as ALSA Nationals next year.

The board spent some time brain storming about ways to increase registrations and income to ILR. The board will try to find time on the cruise to do more of this type of planning.

Jan explained his participation in a recent internet workshop on websites and how the internet is affecting our business. We are currently losing a lot of searches because our name is spelled with only one "l". Motion: Sally Rucker. For internet search purposes only change the name of ILR from lama to llama. Second: Kathi McKinney. 4 Ayes.

Meeting adjourned at 2:00 PM, EDT.

Respectfully submitted,
Sally Taylor
Secretary