ILR BOARD MINUTES

ILR Board of Directors Conference
February 15, 2005
12:07 pm EST

The ILR Board of Directors teleconference meeting was called to order by President, Karen Baum, at 12:07 PM , EDT. Present: Karen Baum, Kathi McKinney, Sally Rucker, Sally Taylor and Jan Wassink, Registrar.

Motion: Sally Rucker. Approve minutes of January 11, 2005 teleconference meeting. Kathi McKinney, Second. 4 Ayes.

The next teleconference call will be 12:00 Noon , EST, March 15, 2005 .

Karen led discussion regarding her contacts with ALSA for a joint teleconference call. Possible topics of interest for both associations were suggested for the call. Karen will follow-up and notify the ILR BOD of the time and date of the call.

Registrar's Report:

• Jan explained the financial reports including the budget for 2005.
• The tenant in the Rainbow Paint store has left and a new tenant is waiting to rent the space when it is ready for occupancy. There will be some upgrade necessary to the space to make it adequate for the new tenant.
• Jan will plan to attend Celebrity Sale in April as the representative for ILR.
• The software upgrade is coming along well and the personnel are becoming comfortable with the system.
• Jan met with the ILR Montana attorney regarding the pending arbitration with ARI.

Committee Reports:

•  Finance Committee: The finance committee reported on its meeting. The areas of focus to raise revenues are membership, web sites, services to other specie registries and the rentals of the building spaces. There was discussion of the fee schedule for animal registration.

Bylaws, Policies and Petitions:

•  The committee discussed the possibility to have a face-to-face meeting (each member of the committee will pay his/her own expenses) to review the policy book and bylaws to facilitate discussion at the annual face-to-face meeting in June.

ILR-eport:

•  Articles for the next issue will be sent to the office by March 20 for inclusion in the March ILR-eport.

Focus Groups:

•  Sally Rucker reported that the fiber group is working on a having a contest to choose a logo to use with llama fiber.

•  There was discussion of the classic group's progress with designing web pages and other advances they have made.

Meeting adjourned at 4:04 PM , EST.

Respectfully submitted,
Sally Taylor
Secretary