Meeting reconvened August 30 at 8:00 a.m.

 

VICE PRESIDENT: Maggy Price suggested that there be a membership directory. Toni will leave a space on the renewal notices for people to check if they want to be included in the directory.

A discussion was also conducted on competitive rides somehow be included in our limited distance programs.

Maggy suggested that a membership drive begin. The drive will be called "Each one, add one". Bumper stickers will be given out to persons who bring in a new member. The bumper stickers will say ""I Got Mine". More information will be forthcoming later in the Vice-Presidents message.

Hall of Fame: The question was brought up as to who we want to honor in our Hall of Fame. Louise suggested that we should perhaps have a different category for those people who have made a contribution to the sport but are not necessarily a ""star". The suggestion was to call this category the AERC Honor Roll. the consensus of the Board was that this needs to be looked into.

Motion by Price.. seconded by Long. That vet students be allowed to enter AERC under the vet category, and for the same fee. The students will be listed in the vet directory in the back of the book. Motion passed.

 

TRAILS: Penny Scribner sent a letter that we discussed. No motions were made, but it was agreed that the AERC would form a closer cooperative effort through our trails committee with the American Trails Foundation. No other action was taken on the trails report.

 

 

EDUCATION: Arlene is working on a beginning competitor’s manual, about the size of the ride managers handbook. each director will be sent a copy of this new booklet for editorial purposes. It was also suggested that more articles be sent out to other magazines to promote the sport.

 

FUND RAISING: Les Cart gave an explanation of his fund raising plan for the establishment of a National Endurance Hall of Fame. After much discus­sion., and a straw vote, it was a consensus of the board that Les put his effort into some other project at this time. Les asked that other directors send in to him our suggestions for other projects. Les asked if he could go ahead and try, to get the basic plan into action and to see if he could go forward a little and try to get this plan in motion.

 

BY LAWS: Motion from by-laws committee, to accept charter. After some revi­sion, the by-laws committee charter was adopted.

 

The by-laws committee with help from Mark Dees letter suggested several changes and these were passed by the chair without objection.

 

Limited Distance Program, motion from committee, to delete

the proposal. Roll call vote. Yes, 13, Cart, Morris, Long, Nebeker, F'rice, Pruitt, t,Varre~. McCrary, Beason, ~iedel, Ansor~e, Mitchell No, 2, Lewis, Zontelli. Motion passed.

 

Removal of director for non-participation, motion from committee to change the word three to two in line one. Chair rules without objection.

 

Sanctioning, Section 12 and 13. Motion bv committee, delete the rest of the second sentence beginning after conference rules.

Motion to approve the by-laws as revised. Yes, 15. See attached for revised by-laws

 

Question from Executive Director, for clarification of the term com­pletion only. Rider will receive points for mileage only, no bonus points.

 

RIDER SAFETY COMMITTEE: Replacement for Dr. Fryer on the rider safety committee. Dr. Leonard Davis will be his replacement as chairman.

 

SANCTIONING: The guidelines for regional sanctionng directors were presented. Chair rules without objection that guidelines be approved.

 

NEW BUSINESS: A discussion was held about ride times, no action was taken.

Ballots, a request was made by the Executive Director to send all ballots to the bookkeeper to be counted then sent to the elections committee for recount. Board approved.

Convention site for 1991. Suggestion was made to look at holding the convention in Atlanta. This will be put in the Newsletter and Toni will enclose the question in the renewal notice, as to how many people would attend if the convention was held somewhere “East”.

 

 

By-law, motion by Price., seconded by Anso.ge. Ballots be sent out for the by-law change with each proposa1 voted on separately.. Each change will contain their own check box.

Competitions: Motion by Lewis, seconded by Price. Motion with explana­tion to be printed in the newsletter. Proposed  that double points will he awarded for 100 mile rides. Lindsay proposed that this be printed. It has been proposed by the competitions committee that riders who successfully-complete one day 100 mile rides receive additional points to recognize the endurance effort and horsemanship required. Cliff may wish to change the wording. No objections so this will be in the next newsletter.

Junior age, discussion about having a minimum age for juniors. This question will be included in the questionnaire sent out with the renewal applica­tions. Joe Long will write up this question and send to the office.

Peter Ansorge wants to have someone work up a better limited distance program, with rules, explanations, better control, to assure that LDP  w ill be in better line with the spirit of AERC. Lindsay. agrees that the rules committee plus any other directors who wish to have input wi11 develop this idea.

 

Meeting adjourned at 3:10 P.M.

 

Submitted By,

 

Jackie Mitchell, Secretary