Roll call \u2013 Betsy Wandler, Catrina Quantrell, Jas Shearer McMahon, Cathy Leddy, Eron Owens, Tish Saare via Skype, Amrita Ibold via conference call<\/p>\n
Reading of last year\u2019s minutes and approval \u2013 Cathy reads last year\u2019s meeting minutes.<\/p>\n
Motion:\u00a0 Catrina motions to approve, Pat seconds.\u00a0 Approved How to retain members \u2013 Pat, Jas and Cathy talked about this issue earlier and came up with some ideas: We need to inspire people that we are for the breed, sense of community.\u00a0 Tish suggests powerpoint of what we have done. Eron suggests\u00a0 yearly report being a one click item on website.\u00a0 Promotions, end of year report.\u00a0 Suggestion of having page on website why breed is so special, it\u2019s heritage.\u00a0 Look at ALBC\u2019s model.\u00a0 Do we want to ask membership about changing bylaws?\u00a0 Go to Electronic ballots? Vote by email?\u00a0 1st time members only get a packet, not renewing members. Update online Paypal. Talk more tomorrow.<\/p>\n HorseFlicks report \u2013 it\u2019s done.\u00a0 DVDs for sale.<\/p>\n Repeat raffle for new foal registrations? \u2013 no, people should register their foals, lower price is incentive enough.<\/p>\n Raffle for early renewals\/membership? Continue, it is working.<\/p>\n Logowear for sale: 11 or 12 sweatshirts left, put in ATAA webstore.<\/p>\n New Business:<\/p>\n Agenda for General Membership Meeting -oked<\/p>\n Grading\/Rare Breeds show \u2013 Could a warmblood judge look at an AT and give a decent grading? Should we continue with Russian standards?\u00a0 Do we want them grading our horses? Slideshow from Tish mentioned. Think of what is best for the horses.\u00a0 Idea of using American experts such as Molly Nicodemus and Jillian ? .\u00a0 Vote for judges?<\/p>\n Awards \u2013 should we do outside awards?\u00a0 What sorts? \u2013 should be related to our breed, ideas:\u00a0 Show headstall, halters, saddle pads, stall guards with logo. Stall hanging.<\/p>\n Annual Conference \u2013 should we go to every other year?\u00a0 Possibly having our conference overseas at, for example, the European Championships.\u00a0 Regional conferences?\u00a0 So few people compete at national level \u2013 ideas such as donating jumps at major venues.<\/p>\n Amrita volunteers Pat to talk to ALBC about expos and how to map where our horses are.<\/p>\n Should we offer PDF memberships to cut down on postage and printing costs?\u00a0 How to do this on website? Need a vision \u2013 break it down, 10 year retrospective.\u00a0 Pat will help process of strategic plan, work on it tomorrow.\u00a0 Amrita suggests a Conference call to discuss.<\/p>\n Grading\/breed standard discussion \u2013during Rare Breeds Show discussion. BOD meeting minutes, September 18, 2015\u00a0 Hampton Inn, Whitestown, Indiana\u00a0Call to order at 9:03 by President, Catrina Quantrell Roll call \u2013 Betsy Wandler, Catrina Quantrell, Jas Shearer McMahon, Cathy Leddy, Eron Owens, Tish Saare via Skype, Amrita Ibold via conference call Reading of last year\u2019s minutes and approval \u2013 Cathy reads last year\u2019s meeting minutes…<\/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\/5927"}],"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=5927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akhal-teke.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Old business:<\/p>\n
Strategic Plan \u2013 Pat- need a framework, Imagine from 10 years from now.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Motion:\u00a0 Cathy motions to adjourn 10:36, Jas Seconds.\u00a0 Approved.<\/strong>
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