ILR BOARD MINUTES
December 11, 2007

Call to order at 7:06 pm EDT by Dr. Karen Baum, President

Present: Board Members Mark Smith, Karen Baum, Kathy McKinney, Kristy Brown, and Registrar Jan Wassink. Sally Taylor e-mailed that she was unable to make the teleconference call.

Approval of minutes for November board meeting: motion made by Kathy, second by Mark – minutes approved.

Schedule for next board meetings set:
December 20, 7pm EDT to review domestic screening procedures
January 17, 2008, 7pm EDT for regular board meeting

The board went into executive session to discuss staff issues and financial investments.

RegistryManager: The RegistryManager should by functional by January 1, 2008. Advanced options that could be added to the program to develop membership lists, mailings, etc. were discussed.

Web site: Redesigns and upgrades to the ILR website were discussed and Jan will prepare an estimated budget for the board for the January meeting.

ShowManager: The ShowManager is ready for test runs at a few early shows. Several show superintendents have discussed the use with Jan. Jan will join the ALSA board on a conference call to discuss the use of the ShowManager program and any additional programming requests that ALSA may have.

Lamaribbean 2009 – The board discussed speaker fees, hospitality areas and conference schedules for the upcoming cruise. An information page will be added to the ILR web site. We will begin taking reservations in early 2008.

ILRe-port: Dar will be sending out an ILRe-port in the next week or two. There was discussion of topics for this and future reports. The request made by Daniel Craig will be included in the next report as well as a reminder for dues renewal at 2007 rates through December 31, 2007.

ILR Brochure: Kristy has refined the brochure and sent it to Dar.

Advisory Groups: User group has had weekly teleconference calls. The Universal Awards Program (UAP) is nearly done and they are now concentrating on the Incentive Fund (IF). Sponsorships for trophies and trophy options were discussed. Additional names were added to the Marketing group. The board discussed the additional programming needed for the UAP/IF to be available on the website. The board reaffirmed their commitment to move forward with these new programs to revitalize and invigorate our industry.

Petitions: Root ball samples have been submitted to UCDavis for further analysis for parent identification.

Nominating Committee: The board discussed possible chairpersons for the nominating committee. Jan will contact them to discuss the position.

Membership: Membership renewals have been received at a steady rate. Email reminders will be sent to past members that have not renewed by Jan. 1, 2008. Kristy brought up the option of gift memberships and Jan discussed the procedure to allow this.

Meeting adjourned at 8:49 EDT.

Respectfully submitted,

Kristy J. Brown for Sally Taylor, Secretary