(No Quorum
Present)
J.R. “Red” Anderson called the meeting to order in the conference room of the Garden Plaza Hotel, Jackson, Tennessee, at 7:50 p.m. J. Stringer, Chair, was at Summer Camp, G. Schneider, Chair-Elect, was in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Gerald Crow, Secretary, had indicated he would not be able to attend. John Rennie took notes.
Those
present were: John Rennie, Richard
Evans, David Walker (Policy Chair), J.R. Anderson (Treasurer), Diana Gennett
(Chair-Elect, Southeastern Tennessee Chapter), Mark Young, Wilbur Hitchcock,
and Kerry Schell (Chair-Elect, East Tennessee Chapter).
A
quorum was not present, so it was decided to dispense with a formal meeting,
but discuss a few pressing items informally.
Note: a quorum is 6 out of the
following 11 officials: chair, chair-elect, secretary, treasurer, policy chair,
and chairs of the 6 chapters.
The status of the treasury was discussed.
A question was raised about the progress of the revision of the student development committee charter. This question stems from a motion made at the Winter Meeting to form a committee to address this committee’s charter.
David Walters, Policy Chair, raised the need to respond to a Forest Service proposal to adopt a new list of plant and animal species as Management Indicator Species for the Cherokee National Forest. A discussion followed which led to David sending an immediate response and to Richard Evans, agreeing to contact Jim Burbank, chair of a committee that addressed a previous list, to review the proposed list in detail.
A request for $200 for the FFA forestry contest at the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, in October 2001 was discussed. The people attending the executive meeting agreed to support the request at the beginning of the business meeting.
It was agreed to recommend to the members at the business meeting to refund to each student $10 out of the $25 student registration fee.
Schell
reminded the people present that it is time to start working on nominations for
the fall election of KTSAF officers.
Schell suggested again that the tradition of alternating chair-elects between Kentucky and Tennessee be suspended for one year to get the four officers in sync. Specifically, this would mean that the chair-elect in the upcoming election would be from Tennessee so that a person who starts as secretary and moves up to treasurer, could then be nominated for chair-elect.
The
meeting adjourned at 8:55 p.m.