Minutes of the
At
7:00P.M., on September 10, 2007, Bob Wright called the SSHBEA Board of Directors
meeting to order and asked Janice Higgins to call the roll and all were present
except Dan Meyer, Janie Rowland, Ronnie Sapp, Kasey Kesselring and Dickie
Gardner who had notified the office of their absence and Mark Cutlip and Tammy
Coffman who had not notified the office. Janice
Higgins then read the minutes of the last meeting and Roy Franklin made the
motion to approve them with two corrections.
Motion seconded, motion passed.
Next
we watched the video of the SSHBEA presentation at the 2007 Celebration of Kathy
Wolaver.
Adrian
Porter, Scotty & Brenda Box and Britt Huffstatler were present for the board
meeting to question why the Porter’s horse (the 2006 Open Shod WGC) was not
asked to do the presentation at the Celebration.
Many questions were asked and some answered.
Upon leaving Britt asked why were both the LS 2 yr old GC and the LS Am 2
yr old GC classes on Friday night 6 classes apart and could one be moved to
another night? We told Britt we
would discuss it. After lengthy
discussion it was decided we should leave it as is for this year, but would be
changed next year. There had been
many other requests this year to change classes that had been denied.
Bob
read a letter from Becky Munn of the Arkansas SSHBEA group asking for Tom Davis
of
Bob
asked how the board felt about using and supplying a speaker phone for people
that could not attend the meetings. Discussion
turned to the possible use of web casting as an alternative that would possibly
be less expensive. Aaron was asked
to come up with some prices to present at the next meeting.
Aaron
next presented the financial report. We
had a loss this month due to the last write-off of unpaid debts.
He thinks things will look much better next month.
After more discussion Doug Herring made the motion to approve the
financial report, Freda Bullard seconded, motion passed.
Janice
Higgins asked if Sport Horse could do the usual Sport Horse Exhibition on the
last Saturday night of the Fall Show. Freda
Bullard made the motion to allow this, Roy Franklin seconded, motion passed.
Janice
Higgins asked Bob could we re-discuss the possibility of changing the 2 Lite
Shod classes on Friday night – there was lengthy discussion again about this,
but the end decision was to leave as is for this year and make sure it is
changed next year.
Roy
Franklin reported the Trail Pleasure Committee had planned to give away $500
cash, but the ticket sales have been low, so that has been canceled.
The tickets sold would be given double their money back.
Cindy
Haley presented a “Change/Renewal of Haley Contract for 2008” handout.
She asked for all to look over it and be able to make a decision at the
October meeting. Her proposal
includes separating the magazine and the corporate sponsors with some changes
offered to the corporate sponsors. She
would like to introduce an electronic news-letter – she will show an example
of this at the October meeting on a laptop.
She asked the board to think about having an advocate for SSHBEA.
There
was discussion of radio/TV/newspaper advertisement of the Fall Show.
Radio and TV is very expensive. There was discussion about ways to give
away tickets. Each board member will
be mailed 15 tickets to give away for the Fall Show.
Sis
Osborne made the motion to adjourn the meeting, Freda Bullard seconded, motion
passed.
Present
for the Board Meeting
Not present-notified of absence
Bob
Wright
Janie Rowland
Janice
Higgins
Dan Meyer
Aaron
Crafton
Ronnie Sapp
Roy
Franklin
Kasey Kesselring
Cindy
Haley
Dickie
Michelle
Bailey
Tamara
Sullivan
Not present-did not notify of
absence
Maude
Hopkins
Tammy Coffman
Doug
Herring
Mark Cutlip
Freda
Bullard
Sis
Osborne
Guests
Don
Woodson
Adrian Porter
Brenda Box
Britt Huffstatler