Minutes from August 3, 2000 business Meeting

Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio

 

Call to Order, Determine Quorum:

The meeting was called to order by President Deb Walters10:30 a.m.; she determined that a quorum was present (14).

 

Welcome, Introduction & Announcements:

Attendance was recorded and the meeting agenda was distributed.  Deb welcomed everyone to the meeting and made some brief announcements.

 

Officer Reports

President:  Deb Walters- see welcome/introduction. 

 

President Elect:  John Deller – Mentioned that the call for papers for the Fish and Wildlife Conference would be announced soon.  Theme of the conference is “Can we live with exotics?”, and the key note speaker is Chris Goddard.

 

Secretary/Treasurer:  Stacy Xenakis - Financially the chapter is stable.  The balance is inflated due to a $19,945.53 deposit for the cost of the stream book printing.  The current balance is $24,336.35.

 

Newsletter Editor:  Joe Mion – no comments

 

Standing Committee Reports

Awards:  Glenn Trueb – Glenn put together a flier to advertise the student travel grant ($200 to send a student to the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference).  Deb handed these out for members to distribute.

 

Historian:  Richard Day – not present

 

Membership:  John Navarro/ John Deller – They put together a 15 minute presentation to inform potential recruits of membership benefits (see handout of slides).  John N. asked for comments and suggestions on how to improve the presentation.  John D. handed out a revised version of the OCAFS pamphlet. 

 

 Nominations:  Ray Petering/Marc Smith – Ray has a list of potential candidates that he used for last year’s nominations.

 

Programs and Fund Raising: Joe Mion – no comments

 

Resolutions:  Elmer Heyob – no resolutions

 

Ad Hoc Committee Reports

Aquatic Education:  Phil Hillman – Phil met with Skip Trask about the instructional videos.  Phil wants to try to put something together by December.

 

Great Lakes:  Carey Knight – Planning for the trawl workshop is complete.  Carey wanted to know if we should make a donation to Paul Von Szalay.  The group decided against it.  Scott Burke will be coming to shoot footage of the workshop.

 

Rivers & Streams: Randy Sanders – (given by D. Walters) He is finishing the last chapter and said that within a month it will be going to the printer.

 

NCD Technical Committees

Centrarchid:  Tom Hall –

 

Esocid:  Richard Day –

 

Great Lakes: Carey Knight –

 

Rivers & Streams: Randy Sanders –

 

Salmonid:  Kevin Kayle – Went to the annual summer meeting held in Lacrosse, WI July 6-8.  They focused on three issues: ecological side, human dimensions, and public involvement.  Mentioned the returning trend of tall grasses in the riparian corridor as opposed to trees.

 

Walleye:  Deb Walters – She and Scott Schell went to the Dubuque meeting.  The focus of the meeting was to discuss how agencies handled walleye tournaments, and the wide array of regulations used.  The committee is putting together a midwest summary of all walleye creel data, and will be meeting in St. Louis for a walleye recruitment symposium.

 

Parent Society News: The parent society is soliciting donations from all chapters for a raffle.  Ohio has not donated in the past, but Mike Costello is checking into a duck stamp print.

 

Old Business:  Still unsure about the charge for the web page.  Kevin has received the $100 invoice, but is sitting on it until we here from the computer users section of the AFS.

 

New Business:   We have our (OCAFS) name on a list that was sent to Voinovich in support of the Murkowdki/Bingamen C.A.R.A. agreement.  We did dontate $50 for postcard postage to support this agreement.  Deb reminded everyone to submit Fish and Wildlife Conference abstracts

 

Adjourn

Motion to adjourn