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ILR
BOARD MINUTES
ILR
Board of Directors Conference
April
12, 2005
12:20
pm EST
The ILR
Board of Directors teleconference meeting was called to order by
President, Karen Baum, at 12:20 PM, EDT. Present: Karen Baum,
Kathi McKinney, Sally Rucker, Sally Taylor and Jan Wassink,
Registrar.
Motion:
Kathi McKinney. Approve minutes of March 15, 2005 teleconference
meeting. Second, Karen Baum. 4 Ayes.
The next
teleconference call will be 12:00 Noon, EDT, May 17, 2005, 12 noon
EDT.
Registrar's Report:
Jan led the discussion
of the financial reports for the month of March and the
year-to-date for 2005. He also explained the latest
developments in the lama manager program.
ARI is proposing to
work through mediation with ILR on their unpaid balance instead
of going directly to arbitration as requested by the ILR
attorney. Any ILR board member who lives close enough to
attend the mediation in Kalispell may do so at their own
expense. Kathi McKinney and Sally Taylor will try to
attend.
The former paint store
space in the ILR building is being refurbished and a new tenant
is showing great interest and will be looking at a long-term
lease. Jan explained some of the improvements to update the
space. He will get estimates and report back to the board.
Committee Reports:
Bylaws, Policies &
Petitions. Jan, Kathi and Sally met in Bozeman for two
days in March to do a “pre-review” of the bylaws and
policy book. The Policy Book was last revised in 2001.
Sally will send the proposed corrections to all members for
review so it can be discussed at the face-to-face using the time
we have allotted in the most effective manner. Since Kathi
was able to fly at no charge and Jan drove from Kalispell it was
a very important meeting at no cost to ILR.
Strategic Planning.
We will review the strategic plan at the face-to-face.
Communications.
There was discussion of articles for the ILRe-port. Sally
Rucker will look for some articles on care of geriatric llamas to
send to Donna Moore.
Motion: Sally
Rucker. Proceed with the posting of the show association and the
association modules on the ILR website. Second.
Kathi McKinney. 4 Ayes
Jan and Kathi will work
on getting some photos up on the I Want a Llama.com website.
Advocacy.
Motion: Kathi McKinney: Future communications for
government relations including all communications for USAHA will
be made exclusively through the ILR representative Karen Coyngham
to the Jan or the ILR BOD. Second. Karen Baum. 4
Ayes.
ALSA Call.
The joint call was cancelled by ALSA through a mis-communication
within the ALSA BOD. We will try to reschedule with ALSA if
they choose.
Suri Llama
Registry. The contract for the contract work for the
SLA has gone to the ILR attorney for review.
FFA Convention.
The FFA convention will be held October 26-28, 2005 in
Louisville, KY. ILR will supply informational brochures for
this event.
It was
recently brought to the attention of Jan Wassink that a confusing
letter to the editor article appeared in the Winter 2003-04 issue
(#68) of Llama Life II. Due to an unfortunate
formatting error the name “International Lama Registry”
appeared above the title of a letter entitled, “Who Are
We?”. To the casual reader it seemed to indicate the
article was authored by someone within ILR when, in fact, the
International Lama Registry title should have appeared on the
previous page under a letter to the editor from ILR President,
Jack Moore. This inadvertent error has apparently caused
some hard feelings within the lama community by folks who thought
ILR was the author of the “The Think Tank” which also
appeared in issue #71. Neither of the letters were
submitted by ILR. A letter to the editor from ILR will be
written and sent to Llama Life II to
correct the impression that “The Think Tank” letters
were written or endorsed in any way by ILR.
Meeting
adjourned at 2:40 PM, EDT.
Respectfully submitted,
Sally Taylor
Secretary
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