Ohio Mosquito Control Association

Board of Directors Meeting

Ohio Mosquito Control Association

Board of Directors Meeting

September 27, 2006

The meeting was held at the new Vector-borne offices in Reynoldsburg.

Present were President Joe Lynch, President-Elect Chris Bauer, Treasurer Chuck Pyle, Secretary Bob Restifo, Vice-President Rich Gary, Member-at-Large Chuck Hart and Past-President Brad Chaney.

President Joe Lynch called the meeting to order at 10:15 a.m.

Secretary’s Report - Bob

The minutes of the July BOD meeting were distributed by e-mail.  There were no corrections, additions or deletions.  Rich moved to accept the Minutes.  Chuck P seconded and the motion passed.

Treasurer Report – Chuck Pyle

See the attached report for details.  After a brief discussion of the financial status of OMCA, it was decided that there is no need to raise the cap on the GIA CD.  Chuck reported that he looked at the total assets of the organization since 1999 and found it to be very stable.  Bob moved to accept the report.  Chuck H seconded and the motion passed.  Chuck P reported that he will up-date the list of authorized signatures for the checking account, which is badly out of date.

STANDING COMMITTEES

Archives – no Chair

The archive material is still in storage at the VBDP warehouse.  Staff has gone through the boxes and discarded multiple copies, retaining one or two copies only.  This has saved some space.  We still need to find a chair and storage facility.

Auditing

The Books were given to Steve Chordas for auditing.  He will report at the Annual Business Meeting.

Awards - Bob

No nominations have been received.  A President’s Award will be ordered for Joe, to be presented at the Annual Meeting.

Constitution Revisions - Bob

No report

Proceedings - Rich

No report.

Training – Rich

No report.

Finance – Chris

No report.

Legislation and Resolutions - Joe

No report

Local Arrangement Committee – Chuck P

The arrangements for the Annual Meeting are set.   Chuck P will deal with any last minute issues.

Membership – Chuck P

There has been no change in the membership; it is still at 121.

Nominations - No chair

Joe will ask if Bill Romoser would be willing to run the elections.

AD HOC COMMITTEES

Accreditation - Bob

Bob sent the request to Sanitarian Registration for CEUs.  Rich, after finding a reportedly lost employee at ODA, applied for licensing CEUs. 

Saleable Items - Rich

There has been no change in the inventory.  Chuck P has about 45 valises.  He needs about 100 lanyards for the registration packets.

Newsletters - Joe

The last newsletter went out with the meeting agenda and registration form.

Photo Salon

No report.

Suppliers - Brad

Univar, Valent BioSciences, Southern Mill Creek, Al’s Aerial Spray and AdapCo have responded.  No word yet from Clarke or ProGuard.

SOP - Bob

There was a discussion of the status of Life/Honorary Members in regards to registration at the Annual Meeting.  There is no mention of this issue in the SOP.  Bob suggested that only revisions to the Constitution require a vote by the entire membership and that changes to the SOP requires BOD approval only.  There was unanimous agreement.

Brad moved to change the SOP to include an exemption from membership and registration for the annual meeting for Life/Honorary Members.  Chris seconded and the motion passed.  Chuck P then moved to not charge Life/Honorary members annual meeting registration.  Rich seconded and the motion passed.

Bob will revise the SOP.

Old business

The agenda is set for the Annual Meeting.  Some small changes are needed since it was decided to delete the Welcome Address.  Rich will make the changes and send Chuck P a final version for inclusion in the Program.

Joe will get the refreshments and snacks for the Early Bird Mixer.

New Business

There was a discussion about the slate for officers for 2007, especially for Member-at-Large and Vice-President.  The following slate will be presented at the Annual Meeting:

                        President-Elect                     Rich Gary

                        Vice-President                   Chuck Hart

                        Treasurer                               Chuck Pyle

                        Secretary                               Bob Restifo

                        Member-at-Large                 To be investigated by Joe and Chuck H.

Bob moved to adjourn the meeting.  Brad seconded.  The motion passed.  The meeting was adjourned at 12:20 p.m.

Submitted September 29, 2006

Robert A. Restifo, Secretary