1.Approval of minutes from the July 15, 2010
meeting
A motion was made and
seconded to accept the minutes as emailed.
2.Status of Action Items
Lennie has left
messages as well as emailing a second bill to the farms that have not yet paid
for their ads in the spring edition of NEAOBA News.No one has contacted him yet.Lennie will be making another attempt to
reach these farms.
Barbie, Matt and Pam
defined the responsibilities for the State Reps and an E-blast was sent out
asking for volunteers.
Bill will contact
Breedworks to get Pam and Matt included as administrators on the NEAOBA
website.He will then help Pam update
the archived articles of NEAOBA News.
3.Treasurer's Report
A motion was made and
seconded to acept the Treasurer's Report as presented to the Board.
1.Member receivables from NEAOBA News Spring issue are still outstanding.
2.The final accounting for NEAF showed a profit of $1684.
4.State Reps
Melissa Ferrera has
volunteered to be the Rep for Connecticut and because there are only 5 members
in Rhode Island, we will be asking her if she would be willing to represent
Rhode Island as well.If John MacEachran
does not wish to continue as the Rep from New Hampshire, Jim King has
volunteered to take over.Bill will
check with them to see who the Rep will be.
Once we have a few
Reps in place, an E-blast will be sent out to recruit Reps for the remaining
states.
5.Discussion of State Regulations
After much discussion
of how to proceed with our hope to have all New England states follow the same
health regulations, it was decided that we would:
1. have Matt get clarification form Claudia
Raessler as to AOBA's purpose in requiring the 30 day rule for health papers
(CVI).
2.let Matt review the policies from all the New England states to clarify
the "exhibition" or "show season" permit so we can share
this information with members that might not know about it.
3.compose a statement to ask the State Vets to revisit the state
regulations issue when they convene in October.
6.Marketing
The NEAOBA booth is
needed in Swansea at the Pen Sale which is Labor Day weekend.Pam will get it from Barbie and set it up
there.She will then bring it to The Big
E for September 28 - 30.Cheryl will
take it from The Big E and set it up at The Fiber Festival of New England (also
at The Big E) on November 6 - 7.Because
we need a booth for the Rochester Fair on September 17 as well, the Board
discussed the idea of making additional booths.It was decided to have two more booths built at an approximate cost of
$400 each.This money will come from the
marketing budget.
7.Events
1.Green Mountain is about one third full at this point.
2.The DCU has dates available for a fall 2011 show, but not for a spring
show.Lennie willl need to get started
in November or December if we are planning a comeback next year.We will discuss this further at our next
meeting.
8. Education
Matt asked of we had
planned any upcoming vet seminars before he joined the Board. We have not and
are looking at the possibility of holding one over the winter, which seems to
be the best time for the vets and breeders.If this comes to fruition, Matt will be willing to find the right
people to speak on the chosen topics.
9.Membership
We have one new
associate member since the last meeting.We have two renewals, one by credit card and the other by check, which
has not yet been received.Renewal of
NEAOBA memberships is at the end the year and is still trickling in.
10.Other Business
Pam brought up the
possibility of NEAOBA presence on Facebook.Both Pam and Matt already use this.Pam feels it could increase our membership, while Matt added that it is
dynamic and more personal than our website.The Board thought it was a good idea and that we should do it, but need
an administrator to oversee the page and not let it go silent.Pam has volunteered to get this
started.Barbie will send her the NEAOBA
logo to put on the page.The Board
would look at the page to approve it before it is put up.We will continue to talk about this at our
next meeting.
The Board voted to
pay $100 towards the treatment of a herd of rescued animals.
The next meeting is Thursday, September 9 at 7:30 P.M.
