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ILR BOARD MINUTES
March 20, 2008
The ILR Board of Directors teleconference meeting was called
to order by President, Karen Baum, at 9:07 PM, EST. Present:
Board Members Kristy Brown, Kathi McKinney, Mark Smith,
Sally Taylor and Registrar Jan Wassink.
Motion: Mark Smith. Approve minutes of February 28,
2008 call. Second: Kathi McKinney. 4 Ayes
The next teleconference meeting will be April 24,
2008 at 8:00 PM, EST.
Registrar’s Report
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Financials: Jan led the discussion of the financial
report. The businesses leasing space in the ILR building are
stable. The needed repairs on the parking lot will be
postponed until next year.
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ShowManager: There are several people testing the
ShowManager program. To date Jan has only had
positive feedback from the users. He plans to watch it in
action at the Celebrity Sale in April.
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RegistryManager: Allen is making the final changes
to the office RegistryManager program. The office
plans to begin testing the new program on Monday.
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Web site: Jan met with the new website programmer.
They will get together later in the week to develop a plan
to improve the ILR web site.
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Lamaribbean II: There are several people signed up
for the cruise. The introductory fares apply through June 2,
2008. There will be a full-page color ad in Llama Link
advertising the cruise next month, American Livestock
Magazine has been very supportive.
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Incentive Fune (IF) / Universal Awards Program (UAP):
Jan will send the board the latest logos suggested for
the IF and the UAP for final approval. Mark suggested
checking into the North American International Livestock
Exhibition, held in Kentucky in November, as a venue for the
awards banquet. Mark will check on the details and get back
to the board.
Old Business
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The face-to-face meeting for 2008 will be held in
Kalispell and has been changed to June 8 to June 11, 2008.
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Domestic Screening: The board discussed ways to
improve the domestic screening. Realizing the screening
process will be a learning procedure for the office and for
the board. We will continue to look at the rules and fine
tune the procedure as needed.
New Business:
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The elections committee has nominated Mary Jo
Miller (KY) and David Armer (NV) to run for the seat to be
vacated by Sally Taylor this spring. The ballots will be
mailed March 28, 2008 with a deadline for receipt at the
accountant by April 17, 2008. The results will be out the
first week of May.
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Foundation Animals: A member has suggested having
photos of some of the old unregistered animals available in
the database as reference when researching pedigrees. The
board did not see any problem in archiving these photos on
the ILR web site.
Call adjourned at 11:07 PM, EDT.
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Taylor, Secretary
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