AZTWS Board Meeting
Final Meeting Minutes
September 18, 2017
4:00–5:00 pm
Kay Nicholson (President), Tiffany Sprague (President Elect), Andrew Jones (Treasurer), Jessica Moreno (Corresponding Secretary), Melanie Tluczek (Recording Secretary), Scott Sprague (Past President)
4:00 pm Call Meeting to Order / Welcome (Kay)
4:02 pm Announcements / Housekeeping (All)
4:07 pm Approval of Past Board Meeting minutes (All)
- August 28, 2017 – delayed until next meeting
4:10 pm Old Business
- Action Items from August Meeting (All – see bottom of agenda)
- Tiffany to create bylaw wording for board member removal – ongoing
- Scott to review revised sections of JAM manual to determine what revisions are still needed; incorporate existing revisions into manual.
- Jonathan Hicks to arrange memorial in JAM program for the late founder Cory Gray of Coda Net Guns.
- Tiffany to coordinate TWS activities for public lands day. – done
- Tiffany will provide language requesting a newsletter editor to send to our email list.
- Other Old Business? (All)
4:20 pm Current Business
- Treasurer’s Report (Andrew)
- NAU asked about applying for a travel grant. Kay responded to Carol letting her know our next application deadline and that students are welcome to apply but may get funds after the conference.
- Newsletter Report (Tiffany)
- We didn’t receive a student chapter piece. We have a feature article and a very long other piece, as well as several announcements.
- Membership Report (Chris)
- Not on the line.
- Webmaster’s Report (Dean)
- Not on the line. He told Scott he has nothing to report but people can contact him if they need anything.
- Opportunities Report (Callie)
- Not on the line.
- Student Liaison Report (Holly)
- Not on the line.
- Conservation Affairs (Jon)
- Not on the line.
- Continuing Education (Stan)
- Not on the line.
- Continuing Education Survey – next steps – Kay will coordinate with Stan to see what role he wants to play in this.
- Possibly a grant request coming in from NAU.
- Borderlands Institute for the Study and Conservation of Understudied Animals (Kay)
- Kay will talk to the lawyer at the TWS conference.
- Fun Shoot (Kay)
- Still waiting for a date.
- Public Lands Day (Tiffany)
- Done.
- Other Current/New Business?
5:00 pm Adjournment
Previous Action Items:
- Holly will contact students to get articles for “Student Corner” in the next newsletter.
- We haven’t received anything. Tiffany will touch base with Holly.
- Kay will go through her list of folks that expressed interest in the past in being on the board.
- In progress. Kay sent some info to Tiffany.
- Holly will send a welcome email to students in the next couple of weeks.
- Ongoing
- Jessica will share the link to the education survey results with board.
- Done.
- Jessica will send a summary of education survey results to the list serv.
- Jessica will do this.
- Scott will look into getting an instructor for a mobile app workshop.
- Kay will reach out to Jonathan about scheduling the fun shoot in the fall.
- Still waiting for a date.
- Tiffany will continue to post events that fall within our mission on the website for National Lands Day and will send out an announcement as we get closer to the date.
- These are on the website so are included in the weekly email updates.
- Kay will draft a response to Melissa Merrick regarding assistance with professional development workshops and send it to the board for feedback.
- Done. Kay responded to Melissa and then forwarded that response to us. If anyone has additional feedback, send it to Melissa or Kay.
- Andrew will let Jon Hanna know that the lawyer was able to speak at the JAM plenary.
- Done.
- Kay will see if the parent society has any connections to a lawyer that can offer some legal counsel on AZTWS’s affiliation with BISCUA.
- Done. Waiting to hear from lawyer. Kay forwarded info to the board.
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