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Proposed change:<\/p>\n
A review of the ATAA financial records shall be performed by a professional bookkeeper or accountant, not otherwise affiliated with the ATAA at the end of every year.<\/p>\n <\/strong> Called to Order:\u00a0 9:17 am, September 22, 2012 by Cathy Leddy, Secretary Roll Call by Secretary:\u00a0 Jas Shearer-McMahon, Cathy Leddy, Ann and Gary Tipps, Amrita Ibold, Catrina Mettam, Jeremy Quantrell, Eloise King, Monica Bretherton, Betsey and Erin Wandler, Tish and Jack Saare, Jenny Rice, Terri Fender and Reeny Thompson via Skype and Susie Morrill via..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82504444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82504444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/span> This bylaw passed.
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<\/span> Second bylaw change in Article III Membership, Category I, Active Membership<\/strong>
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<\/span> Bylaw Article III Membership, Category I, Active Membership
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<\/span> Here is what our Bylaws state now:
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<\/span> As the wording is now:
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<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Category I; Active Membership<\/strong>.\u00a0 Open to the owner(s) of any horse(s) registered with the ATAA.\u00a0 Active members shall be entitled to vote after six (6) months membership and shall receive the Association newsletter. Active membership includes the following types of memberships:\u00a0 Charter, Lifetime, Individual, Family and Ranch\/Breeding Farm.
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<\/span> Proposed change in bold and underlined:
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<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
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<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Category I: Active Membership.\u00a0 Open to the owner(s) or lessee(s)<\/strong> of any horse(s) registered with the ATAA.\u00a0 Active members shall be entitled to vote after six (6) months membership and shall receive the Association newsletter. Active membership includes the following types of memberships:\u00a0 Charter, Lifetime, Individual, Family and Ranch\/Breeding Farm.
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<\/span> This Bylaw also passed.
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<\/span> Ballots collected with 4 mail in ballots, 1 via email and the rest voting at the meeting.
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<\/span> Results:\u00a0 3 year terms to Amrita Ibold and Tish Saare.\u00a0 1 year terms taking over non-performing members terms, Catrina Mettam and Betsy Wandler.\u00a0 Both Bylaws up for vote passed.<\/strong>
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<\/span> Farm reports were given during counting of the ballots.
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<\/span> Silent Auction, Amrita Ibold- <\/strong>Excellent turnout at the auction, Amrita and Jenny set up online bidding on items on the ATAA website, which worked pretty well.\u00a0 Auction ended at 5 pm and Amrita reports that it made $581, with $373 collected and emails send out for the remainder.\u00a0 Money will go in the fund to help defray registration costs, per the motion above.
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<\/span> Old Business<\/strong>:\u00a0 Nothing
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<\/span> New Business<\/strong>:\u00a0 DNA vet signature requirement for registration brought up to membership.\u00a0 BOD had voted to abolish this, but we decided that membership should be asked their opinions.
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<\/span> Vote- No vet signature required on DNA reports \u2013 approved<\/strong>
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<\/span> Discussion of using University of Texas with Gus Cothran to do our DNA reports vs continuing with University of Kentucky.\u00a0 U of T is $20 vs U of K $29.\u00a0 Also, Amrita says that Gus is easier to work with and gets back to us sooner.
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<\/span> Motion-Jas motions to change to using University of Texas for our DNA testing, Catrina seconds, approved<\/strong>
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<\/span> Grading Tour<\/strong>:\u00a0 Discussion of previous grading tours, pros and cons.\u00a0 We will look into inviting Nadesda Abramova next year to do a grading for us with information to follow to members.\u00a0 Brief discussion of getting people here certified as graders, tabled for now.
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<\/span> The possibility of including the Caspian Registry with ours, per a suggestion from the ALBC. It could be a good thing and the Caspian\u2019s could have a section on our website and in our newsletter. The suggestion was tabled until further information comes in from the ALBC.\u00a0
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<\/span> The Board then asked the membership for suggestions on what they would like the ATAA to do for the next year.\u00a0
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<\/span> Suggestions from floor<\/strong>:\u00a0 print more ATAA decal stickers (Ann had contact info for company that did the old ones).\u00a0 Logowear with ATAA logo for sale.\u00a0 Tish said that she will head the Promotions committee and will work on decals and logowear.
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<\/span> Grants<\/strong>:\u00a0 Cathy brought up having some sort of scholarship or grant fund to help with extraordinary efforts to promote and preserve the AT.\u00a0 The WEG 2010 booth was brought up.\u00a0 Betsy suggested that we write up a possible scholarship fund proposal.\u00a0 Eloise suggests that we get some ATs into judging forums to help judges in the future when Tekes compete.\u00a0 Susie suggests that we get donations for the fund.\u00a0 Cathy will start writing up proposals for the BOD and membership to look at.
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<\/span> Motion-Monica motions that we put $500 into a starting up a scholarship fund, Betsy seconds, approved<\/strong>
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<\/span> Meeting adjourned at 1:15 <\/strong>
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<\/span> \u00a0<\/strong>
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