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IJA Board Meeting- March 12, 20081. CALL TO ORDER: Chair Don Lewis called the meeting to order at 8:01 p.m. EDT. 2. ROLL: 3. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: Kim Laird moved to the approve the agenda with the addition
- agenda was approved by unanimous consent 4. PREVIOUS MINUTES: 5. REPORTS: Video (Jeff Peden via John Satriano) - The video
archives are being put together and the equipment is on its way to
start the digitizing the material. It should be completed by this
time next month and could possibly be posted on the web. The next
step will be to catalog all of the video content. As of now, there
is no festival videographer, there has only been one lead. Competition Judging (Chuck Hawley) - The testing
DVD is in replication for the test judges. A website is being finished
for test judges to submit their scores from the test DVD. World Juggling Day (Dean Wicklund & Barry Rappaport
via Kim Laird) - World Juggling Day shirts are being produced
by Crash. It will take about two weeks for them to be produced, once
the WJD design is finished. The WJD website is in production and will
be viewable on Friday. It will be connected to the IJA website. There
are a few prizes for some vendors. The IJA will donate some prizes
like DVD's, T-shirts, and festival packages. Don Lewis moved to allocate a $1000 for World Juggling
Day T-shirts. The Board of Directors authorized Kim Laird to allocate
prizes for World Juggling Day. eNewsletter (Don Lewis) - Don would appreciate
any items for the eNewsletter. A suggestion was made to dedicate some
of the content in the eNewsletter to getting to know the candidates. John Satriano moved that the IJA include a campaign
section in the May issue of the eNewsletter. The candidates will be
allowed to submit 350 word statements each due by May 15th. This issue
will be reproduced each May as long as there is an eNewsletter in
existence. Bylaws Committee (Kim Laird) - The committee
has been quiet. Members of the committee have not been very responsive,
Will Penman is the only member to respond. Kim is giving the members
until Friday to respond. She will then open up the discussion on the
Open Forum. The parliamentarian, from the IJA Annual meeting, said
specifically we need to change the quorum amount and the initiation
fees. Also on the agenda to discuss, a Board member doesn't need to
be an IJA member, electronic voting, and references to the Corporations
operations manual. They are just a few of the items that need to be
updated. 6. MOTIONS The motion is passed by unanimous consent. 7. VARIA 7b. A question was raised that the IJA email
list should be given to the candidates to use. The IJA email list
is copyright protected. Any email sent to members through the IJA
should be for business use only. There are multiple ways for candidates
to get their message across to the membership. There is no motion. 7c. Currently, there are two candidates running
for the board. There are two more spots open. 8. NEXT MEETING: Next regular BOD meeting will
be held on April 16, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. EDT. 9. ADJOURNMENT: John Satriano moved to adjourn.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:20 p.m. EDT.
Respectfully submitted by Janelle Hawley. |