***Minutes from the current posted BOD meeting are not yet approved.

NEWApHC BOD Meeting 2-20-08 Hobo's Truck Stop, Lake Church

Members present: Tiffany, Sandy, Kathy, Starla, Jim, Dan, Shann

Members absent: Stephanie, Saundra

Officer Election Verification: Sandy motioned to accept the nomination and vote via email on the NEWApHC Yahoo site, Jim 2nd. Approved. President: Dan Schaut, VP- Tiffany Kindschy, Treasurer- Kathy Buth, Secretary- Sandy Truntz

Secretary Report- Sandy read the minutes form the Feb. 2nd meeting. They were approved as read with no corrections or additions.

Treasurer Report- Tiffany motioned, 2nd by Starla. Approved. We have $4,908.03. Tiffany will take care of the futurity ribbon invoice from last year. We will not open a new credit card for NEWApHC.

Futurity- NR- committee consists of Tiffany, Stephanie, and Starla

Directory- Sandy is collecting ads now. The Board divided up who is going to call on previous advertisers for this year. Deadline is March 1st.

Horse-A-Rama- April 12 & 13- Shann, Starla, and Kathy will take care of set up on Friday. We will include a drawing for a free membership with an estimation jar like the candy jars we gave at the banquet. A painted pony will be auctioned off. Starla motioned, 2nd by Sandy

Spring Open Show- Manitowoc Dan will contact NEWPHA about a joint venture to increase attendance. Sunday May 11th or 25th. We will fix up the donated trophies by Linda Bauer for awards.

Spring NEWApHC Regional West Bend- We need sponsorships to raise more money to hold the show. Discussed different levels: gold(500), silver(250), bronze(100), class(20). Our by-laws state that members are expected help and support the club. Sandy motioned, 2nd by Tiffany to send out a letter asking every member to get three sponsors at any level. Nominations costs are changing: $5.00 per class across the board this year for Youth, NP, and Open. Kathy motioned, 2nd by Shann. All in favor, approved. Starla made a motion to add Youth Most Colorful to our show bill, 2nd by Shann. Approved. We need judges, Shann will tell Dave. Kathy made a motion to send in $200 to the ApHC for our show dates this year. Approved.  Package fees are also going to change this year. Shann motioned, 2nd by Tiffany to increase package fees to $125.00. Approved. Tiffany made a motion, 2nd by Starla to increase Open class fees to $8.00. Tiffany, Kathy, Starla, Jim, and Shann voted for it. Sandy voted against it. Motion was approved. Computer- Tiffany will contact Paul Connolly to see if he is available. Crystal Born will also be contacted. Kathy will check with her brother to see if can announce. Since we cannot do any circuit high points this year, we discussed a weekend highpoint. It is tabled.

SWAHA and NEWApHC joint club- Dan will call Cal Schaefer

Fall NEWApHC Regional West Bend- Tabled

Fall NEWApHC Open Show- August 23rd West Bend

2008 Awards Banquet- combine with SWAHA?

Old Business- By Laws- Sandy retyped them and sent them to the ApHC

New Business-are we incorporated? Kathy will look into it.

Next Meeting: General Membership Meeting- Saturday, April 5th at The Villager at 5:30. Kathy will call them to arrange.

Sandy made a motion to end the meeting, 2nd by Tiffany at 9:00 p.m

NEWApHC BOD Meeting 2/2/08

Members Present: Steffanie R., Tiffany K., Dave S., Dan S., Starla O., Sandy T.

General Member Present: Gloria Schaut

Secretary Report- read by Sandy. Motion to accept by Dan, 2nd by Tiffany. Approved.

Treasurer Report- $3,794.75 as of 12/31/07 minus awards and shavings money to the Youth

     Disbursements: $58.54 to Mike Truntz for trophy bases and postage for Sandy for mailing out Directory invoices. Motion to accept by Tiffany, 2nd by Dan. Approved.

    Motion was made by Dan, 2nd by Tiffany to send out new invoices to exhibitors from the August show to try to regain some of our loses due to computer error.

Youth- NR

Point Keeper-NR

Newsletter-NR

Futurity- 6 entries only

Show-Dave has called on Judges, nobody definite yet. Stefanie will be Show Chairperson. Discussion was held as to whether or not we can realistically hold a show with our finances being so low. We need to get some sponsors! Dan made a motion to send in our application to the ApHC to cover our show dates. Sandy 2nd the motion. Approved.

Old Business

Survey Responses- Results show that the majority of NEWApHC and SWAHA members want a conjoined club so that we have one united Wisconsin Appaloosa Horse Club. Starla will contact Larry Goodall from Iowa to find out how they joined their clubs.

Directory- this has been a small fundraiser for us in the past. Dan motioned to continue with the directory, 2nd by Dave. We will be adding the by-laws and also using it as a new member packet.

New Business

Stalls- Kathy Buth will take over with stalls

Open Show- we would like to have one in Spring and one in Fall to raise money to hold our shows.

Audit- we need to gather people to have a club audit.

Dave motioned, 2nd by Dan to adjourn the meeting at 5:05 p.m.

Next meeting Sunday, February 10th at Tiffany's house to go over the August Show invoices. 1:00 p.m.

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