2015 Annual General Meeting Minutes

 

Hamilton, Montana 

Saturday June 13, 2015

14 Members in attendance: Craig and Linda DeMoss, Sondra Gibson, Susan and Glenn Keto, Laura Roe, Lee and Jerry Bates, Jennie and Randy Reid, Stephen Briles, Boo and Lilly LeVeque, Sue Faunce, current board of directors president.

Meeting was called to order by Sue Faunce after dinner.  Premium checks were handed out for the winners of the sheep show, and fleece show.

Grand Champion Ram –ram lamb Icelandic- Laura Roe

Reserve Champion Ram- aged ram – LeVeque Ranch

Grand Champion Ewe- aged ewe- Lee and Gerry Bates

Reserve Champion Ewe-ewe lamb- LeVeque Ranch

Supreme Ram – Icelandic ram lamb- Laura Roe

Supreme Ewe- Icelandic ewe lamb- LeVeque Ranch

Grand Champion Fleece- Sondra Gibson

Reserve Champion Fleece- Linda and Craig DeMoss

Sondra Gibson was also presented with a gift of an LL Bean gift certificate in appreciation for her work in organizing the Sheep show and AGM.

Minutes were read from the 2014 AGM, a motion was made and seconded to approve those minutes. A current treasurer’s report was passed out and a motion to approve was seconded and passed.

Old Business: Sue updated the group on a few things the board had been doing over the winter. We discussed the increase in advertising budget and the great new ads that were being created for isbona. Also the new website redesign and the board had voted to reduce the membership dues fee for web members to be the same amount as a full membership, and this would allow both levels to have their farm information published on the website.

New Business: There was some discussion around registration and the CLRC, Sondra stated that in the past she had done a thorough investigation into separating from them and it was very costly and complicated. It was made clear on the email list that the majority of the membership was happy the way things were and did not want to change anything. 

There was discussion about the isbona website and its placement in a web search regarding ways to get the website in the top 3 results of a search. A suggestion was made to be an advertiser’s sponsored site.  It was decided we would ask the web designer to just add some more key words that would bring the site higher in the search results.

Adding a FOR SALE page to the website for members to advertise sheep was discussed, the ads would need to be restricted in length of time they were up, with a set expiration date. We also discussed the newsletter going online, or staying in print form.

We ended the meeting by everyone introducing themselves and talking a bit about their farm and history with isbona. We all agreed that it was important to keep improving isbona and finding new ways to attract today’s younger shepherd to the organization.

(Meeting minutes notes submitted by Boo Leveque)

 

SHEEP SHOTS!!