Draft
Call Meeting to Order
Presiding, Rodney Horrocks,
Chair
Minutes of Previous Meeting
were neither read nor approved
No attendance roster was
received by the secretary, but there was a good number present including
officers and committee chairs.
Committee Reports
Financial report - Report from Secretary-Treasurer
Evelyn Bradshaw had prepared
a report on our finances (a copy is attached).
She is asking to be relieved as secretary-treasurer in part because she
has two other accounts in the same branch of the Patriot Bank in Virginia and
this causes some difficulty in keeping transactions separate. She also has secretarial responsibilities
with at least two other entities (including the local group of the Sierra Club
chapter in
Section website report
John Wilson gave a short
report for Rob Stitt
Publications
No Report
Awards Committee
Annual Section Award to an
John Wilson reported that he
had received nominations of high quality.
A judging committee exchange evaluations and agree upon the recipient
via the Internet. Someone to accept the
group award for the successful nominee is present at convention, and John
Wilson has a check for the award of one hundred dollars from the treasurer to
present to the selected recipient. The
rules for this Section award allow both
Other Reports
Clean Water Act - John Hoffelt called to our attention that
recent changes in the federal Clean Water Act may call upon us to authorize a
study as to how it affects cave conservation.
What was the motion?
Old Business
Motion to
amend the Bylaws to create a Recording Sectary and Treasures officer positions
and delete the secretary treasures position. Transfer the appropriate duties of the old position
to the two new positions. Subsequent
research indicates that the Bylaws provide for two separate positions of
secretary and treasurer.
Motion to elect officers - President, Vice President, Secretary, and
Treasurer
Rod Horrocks was elected
chairman.
John Wilson was elected Vice
Chairman.
Evelyn Bradshaw was elected
as Secretary
Eugene Vale was elected
Treasurer
Motion to elect the Board of Directors
William Halliday, Jo Schaper
and John Hoffelt were nominated. Jo and John were elected.
New Business
A Motion to add another award for Grottos only was referred to the Section
Executive Committee.
A Motion to authorize $ 300 ???? to
purchase a permanent plaque and certificates for the Group Conservation Award
was approved.
A motion to place “The Conservationist” back issues on the section website was approved.
Recommendations from the section to the
Adjournment
Respectfully
submitted,
Evelyn W. Bradshaw,
Secretary
The Executive Committee met after the section meeting and approved the
Grotto award as a second award.
Other jobs were taken by EC
members, such as:
Scanning the old issues of the Conservationist
– Rod
Setting up a new frames
based Section web site – John
Spread sheet of Section
finances – Gene
Others???