ILR BOARD MINUTES
February 25, 2010
Meeting
called to order
at 8:05 EST. Board Members: Mark Smith, Kathi McKinney, Bill
Safreed, Mary Jo Miller, Kristy Brown and Registrar, Jan Wassink
present.
Approval
of minutes from January 21, 2010
– approved by email and posted.
Next
Meeting:
Wednesday, March 24, 2010, at 8pm EST.
Registrar's Report:
1.
The
financials for 2009 were reviewed by the board and compared to
the 2008 as well as January 2010 financials. Tax documents for
2009 have not yet been filed.
2.
Dar
Wassink joined the call to discuss ILR Silver Anniversary items
to sell and to donate to the ILR-SD Anniversary Shows. The board
selected several items and the 25th Anniversary
committee will select the gift items for exhibitors. All orders
will be placed from and delivered to the ILR Office in
Kalispell, and the office will ship items to venues as needed.
3.
E-bulletin
topics and schedule was reviewed and new ideas were shared with
Dar and the ILR Board.
4.
The third
rental suite has been rented out and the new tenants are
remodeling the space to suit their needs at their own expense. A
one year lease will be signed March 1, 2010. Jan will contact
the ILR attorney to pursue legal action against the tenant that
broke their lease to collect overdue rent from them.
5.
Executive
Session to discuss staffing and office matters.
6.
ILR
Anniversary Shows – three West coast venues are being discussed
but none are yet finalized. Two Midwest venues expressed
interest in becoming anniversary shows but were not chosen
because of their close proximately to the IA and KY events
already established.
7.
Programming priorities: Jan has been working with Allen and Paul
regarding the programming priorities that were discussed at the
Face-to-Face and they are being implemented. The major
priorities at the moment are ILR-IF, ILR-UAP and ILR-SD. The
next priority item will be the upgrades to the website.
8.
ILR Booth
at Celebration Event – The board discussed the logistics for the
Celebration Event and will incorporate a 50/50 split-the-pot
raffle as well as selling ILR Anniversary items and ILR-SD
clothing. Jan and Dar will coordinate volunteers at the table.
9.
ILR Board
Face-to-Face: the board set a tentative date for the F2F for
July 15-17, 2010. Dar will check on motel availability and the
board will investigate airfare prices for their individual
locations.
10.
ILR
Insurance – we will be adding a $1,000,000 umbrella package to
our insurance renewal.
Show
Division:
1.
Show
results will be posted as they are received in the office.
2.
The
National Show Committee is investigating both the IN State Fair
and NAILE as options for the National Show. Kansas City Royal
would host it but the show would be mid-week rather than a
weekend.
3.
Jan is
investigating the feasibility of utilizing social networks to
advertise the ILR-SD.
Old
Business:
1.
DNA
submission with registration – the ILR Board discussed requiring
DNA (root ball samples or FTA card) be submitted when animals
are registered, but we would NOT require the sample be tested.
This would entail no additional cost to registration fees.
Samples would be stored for future testing at member request.
The membership will be polled before this policy is implemented.
2.
Nomination
committee – Jan will contact Barb Baker for a progress report.
3.
Microchip
dealership – Kristy is investigating options with different
microchip companies to host a dealership thru the ILR. More
information will be available over the next few weeks.
New
Business:
1.
The
board went into executive session to discuss member petitions.
Motion to
adjourn
at 10:58pm EST: motion by Kathi, second by Mary Jo. Unanimously
approved.
Respectfully submitted,
Kristy
Brown, ILR Secretary