This meeting
of the board was held
Electronically at 9:00 p.m. EST
Board
Members Present:
Larry
Ecker, President
Bryan Petersen, Past President
Kelly Jedlicki, Vice President
David Adkins, Treasurer
Board
Members Absent:
Al
Bodenham, Secretary
Dennis Gallagher, Webmaster
Joe Jones, Editor
Delegates Present::
John Brandt, CMAS (Chicago)
Tom Walsh, CMAS (Chesapeake)
Eric West, OMAS (Oklahoma)
Others
in attendance:
Nancy Swart
Agenda:
Reinstate
Nancy Swart to BOD as Webmaster
Appoint
Dennis Gallagher as Member at Large
Approval
of January’s minutes
Officers'
Reports
Committee Reports
Old Business
New Business
Reinstate
Nancy Swart to BOD as Webmaster
Due
to Dennis Gallagher's illness, Nancy has agreed to return
as Webmaster. Motion made and seconded to reinstate her to
the Board as Webmaster. Voted on and passed.
Appoint
Dennis Gallagher as Member at Large
Dennis
was absent and therefore, unable to accept nomination and
appointment. Item tabled.
Approval
of January’s minutes:
Secretary,
Al Bodenham, was absent and Minutes of January 2000
regular board meeting have not been received. Item tabled.
Officers'
Reports:
Past President: Other than working on MACNA XII, Bryan had no news
to report.
Vice President:
All delegates that have e-mail addresses on record were notified
of the meeting.
MXII registration pamphlets were taken to local pet shops
and to the last LMAS meeting and distributed.
I finished my bio for MXII. I can forward it to Nancy
if she needs it for the web page.
No progress on protocols/standards as I have been working
65-78 hours during the week and taking call every other weekend.
My work schedule will lessen considerably at the end of the
month.
Committee
Reports:
Scholarship:
Larry reported
that altho he has received several requests for Scholarship
applications, none have been returned yet. An application
has now also been placed on the website.
Database:
Dennis Gallagher
and Rich Heite were both absent. Nothing has been reported
on the progress of this project in several months. Kelly has
been instructed to discuss this with Rich Heite in order to
determine if he has the time to perform the tasks involved
and whether he intends to stay in this position.
Fundraising:
Larry has called
several companies with negative results.
Membership:
Kelly stated
no new members have joined since last meeting. Membership
roster almost completed. Will forward to Nancy when
finished so that website can be updated. Applicatons
now online on the website.
Old
Business:
MACNA XII
Report:
MACNA XII is
progressing as follows:
31 tickets sold.
16 booths sold.
We have placed an ad in FAMA and plan on placing several more
with various publications before the cut off date.
I have about half the flyers requested done and anticipate
having some time this weekend to work on mailing them.
We appear to
have links from several aquarium sites, the largest of which
is reefs.org. At this point I am hopeful that Aquarium Frontiers
will put up a link for us too. That should be a big plus for
us.
Our biggest problems at this point seem to be cost and MACNA
XI. The feedback we have received from several people is that
MACNA XII will be very expensive to attend. Since we are following
on the heels of a relatively inexpensive conference in MACNA
XI this may be a problem, although I believe that as our advertising
efforts increase, the registration will increase.
New
Business:
MACNA XIII:
Bids were received
from CMAS (Chesapeake) and LMAS (Louisville) to host MACNA
XIII in the year 2001. All Board members had ample time to
thoroughly review the bids. After much discussion, the decision
was made to reject the LMAS bid for two reasons:
1) it would be too soon to return to the same location;
2) it would also mean a rewrite of the new contract which
was just approved by all delegates at the 1999 General Meeting.
Motion made and
seconded to award the bid to CMAS (Chesapeake). Vote passed
with 4 in favor and one abstention.
Larry will work
closely with Tom Walsh to finalize hotel contract negotiations
and confirm date.
