Minutes of the Meeting of the ALSA Board of
Directors
October 08, 2002
ALSA Board of Directors Meeting
Directors present, Dick Sheehan, Dwayne Flinn, Niki Anderson-Kuklenski,
Jeff Jones, Deb Yeagle, Jeff Jones, Mark Smith also present Cheryl Ryberg,
ALSA Executive Secretary
Approval of the minutes from the last board meeting were deferred
until everyone gets a chance to read them.
The treasurer's report will be present at the face to face at the Nationals.
The membership questionnaire will be completed at the nationals and
will be mailed to the membership.
Dick proposed formulating criteria for the petitions that come to the
board pertaining to changing to the different regional shows. Dwayne
will talk to the Regional Committee for some ideas as to how to formulate
fair and equitable changes.
Dick will work with the performance committee about the Pack trial
revisions to the handbook.
The Alpaca Committee is still looking for a date and a place for the
Alpaca Championship Show for the fall of 2003
We are also working on a flier for the showmanship clinic in May.
All of the education committee material is at the office. We are still
looking for a chairperson.
Anyone interested in clinics should call the office for both the beginning
and advanced judging.
Elections Committee to look into a different way to count ballots and
they will come back to the board with ideas.
Ethics Committee is working to get a rotation on and off of committees
so there will be opportunities for all our members to participate in
our member driven organization. We want to encourage as much participation
on committees as possible. The chairs would stay the same. Some committees
would need to have a stable base for example the regional committees.
All members would have to be approved by the board.
Fiber committee will be working on both fiber clinics and handbook
revisions.
Carol Ann moved, Deb seconded a motion to add to the Grand National
budget monies to pay for a storage space for the various things that
are necessary for the Grand National. Motioned passed. There has been
a lot of interest in going to the banquet.
Gayle will have the hand book revisions ready for the Board to review
at the face to face meeting at the Grand National. Mark will get input
from the judges committee on the scoring of incompletes.
The Judge's Committee recommended ,Dwayne moved, Carol Ann seconded
a recommendation that Bon Burgess and Patti Fischer have their level
2 judge limits lifted from judging from 150 animals to 200 animals.
Motioned passed.
The Membership Committee recommended a new member , Mark moved, Dwayne
seconded the motion to add Bon Burgess to the membership committee.
Motioned passed
The nominating committee has been given the task to change the procedure
for nominating. They have been asked to make recommendations to the
Board prior to the elections.
The performance committee did not have a report.
Planning and Policy, recommendations are ask to come up with a plan
to address the fact that members would like to attend board meetings.
For example, a member may come to a board meeting to address a certain
issue at a face to face meeting with a 30day notice.
RENEWAL OF THE CONTRACT FOR Publication of the Showring was tabled
until the face to face meeting. The board will need a breakdown of what
the actual cost of the publication is and a decision will be made then
on the next year's contract.
Regionals are paying to 6 places and the labels needed to be redone.
All has been done and sent out to the regional supers.
Show management has nothing new until nationals. The first packet should
be ready for the national.
Youth had no report.
Tony Rollins scholarship is up on the web site and has been sent to
all ALSA youth that fit the age criteria. The youth has to be a current
high school senior. The deadline is the 25th of October.
Request to move the Great Lakes Regional Show to Springfield Illinois.
There are 37 farms from Indiana, 19 from Michigan, 2 from Oh.,6 from
Mi, 3 from Illinois and 3 out of Minn. 80 Percent came from the Indiana
and Michigan area. The criteria for a regional is centrally located.
The regional committee needs to look at this request.
Abuse of judges at a show -show management should dismiss the person
per page 7 of the rule book Mark will ask the judges committee if this
is a concern.
There was concern about safely in a cart class. Mark will take this
to the judges committee to address as a safety issue example the petting
in PR.
Subset of the youth committee for a youth with disabilities committee
was approved .
Jeff proposed, Deb seconded a motion to approve the formulation of
a suri or silky class. Committees are being asked to imput and for ideas
on implementing criteria. Motion carried.
Carol Ann so moved, Deb seconded the motion for Adult Showmanship.
The motioned passed with one objection. Adults will be able to collect
and receive points like the youth in youth classes. The points will
go to the showman.
Because of problems with a couple of shows, how to handle these problems
was discussed .The procedure will be that the office will contact the
show committee and follow the rules that are in the rulebook regarding
problems with shows that do not follow rules.
All requests for office work from committees has to go thru the Board
liaison of that committee.
Carol Ann moved, Dwayne seconded to adjourn. Motion passed.
Respectfully submitted,
Deb Yeagle, ALSA Board
Secretary
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