Executive Board Meeting – Sept 18^th, 2007

Agenda Approved

Minutes Approved from June 13, 2007

Sec/Treasurer Report – 17,000 in checking and just deposited another $24,000 today

Membership: 250 members with more students, recreation and Business members this year

Certification:  As a whole the NRPA is going with a National certification process.  This means that records will no longer be here in South Dakota.  Right now the cost is $10 for two years here in SD.  If we go with the National it will cost $45 for two years. 

Doug Hofer made a motion that we agree as a board to certify as a state for one more year and then have the intent to go with NRPA for certification.  Kristi Lint second – Approved by all.

Communications: We will be moving our website to a new sever.  This will help with getting the membership page working.  Lance Catron will be taking over as the communications chair.

Activities:       30,000 people for the great day of play. 

                        Hershey Track meet was a huge success this year

Awards:   These will be given out at the banquet.

Scholarships:  We will be giving out two at the banquet

Constitution:  LWCF money from oil reserves pass in legislation

                        Doug would also like to pass this on to someone else in our membership

Maintenance School:  Time of year change helped with attendance.  We will stick with the March time frame.  Bob would also like to pass this on to someone else.

NRPA:  We received 4 nominations for this three year term

Student:  Paul Ulrich will be our new person from SDSU

Cemetery:  9 members as of today

Aquatics:  No conference as the speaker backed out at the last minute.  We will be having the life guard competition next summer in Yankton.

Community Rec.:  Did not have as many people show up to conference as expected.

Goals:  We did a good job as getting our goals accomplished this past year.  Need to work on accreditation numbers for the state and do what we can to get SDSU accredited.  We will be sending a letter of support to help with this process when the time is right.

Congress is in Indianapolis:  Sept 25-29

Archery Equipment Donation:  The National Alliance for the Development of Archery is looking for an organization to be the keeper of their archery items.  They would be responsible for keeping track of all the equipment and sending it out to schools.  It was decided that there would be a better organization for this job and we would give them some suggestions.

Next meeting:  Nov 15-16 in Pierre at the Comfort Inn