November 11, 2001 A Meeting of the Board of directors was held as follows:
Date:11-11-01
Time: 10:00 a.m. Place: Lodi Ca.
The following directors were present:Gary Bradford, Sal Gervasi, Archie Steele, Richard Felix, Craig Eller, Bruce Carpenter, Kelly Steele, and Bob Munson The following members were absent: Jeff Boundy, James Chaffee, Harvey Kunkel, Bud Large, Juan Pimentel, Tony Thomasy, Jim Turner and Scott VaughnThe following guests were in attendance: Ben Joe Willis and Crazy Rick Melead The Chairman called the meeting to order pursuant to the bylaws at 10:20 a.m.
Old Business:
1) Minutes of the last meeting were read and submitted with no changes.
2) The treasures report was read and accepted.
3) The donation to the widows and children of the New York fire fighters and police were approved by the Board with two no votes.
4) Some members of the board must give depositions for the law suite against Mcnees.
The court date is March 18th. Trial redlines March 15th.
5) Conservation report: Bob is to set up a meeting between the DFG and the Water Resources Board. He also talked about the President signing a new conservation bill and the bass virus meeting in Ok.
6) Web page: Newspaper to be on the web page, he needs articles he has about 4 pages at this point
7) State team report: All members of the team have signed the contract. Archie Steele was appointed by the President as the 2nd. Alternate.
8) Western Divisional: Will be held May 22nd. -24th. Out of Ladds, the Best Western Stockton Inn will be the host hotel. They will offer special rates and have experience holding big tournaments. We need to supply bodies for traffic and such. We also need to arrange some day trips for the wives and family of the anglers.
New Business
1) Board Meeting locations: For now until we have more money in the account, we will hold them at Ben & Kelly’s in Lodi.
2) Vacant region director posts: Two possible candidates for the Sacramento region but none for Big Valley.
3) Motion to accept Alton Forthe as Region Director for Sacramento voted on and accepted.
4) Need to remove two sponsors from our signs, A.C. Delco and World Waters.
5) All regions will be man on man draw.
6) Elections: Ballots will be sent out to regions 2, 4 and 6 for Regional Directors. Motion to re-elect Bradford President was voted on and accepted. Motion to re-elect Felix State Tournament Director voted on and accepted. Motion to elect Gervasi Secretary voted on and accepted. Motion to re-elect Large as Youth Director voted on accepted.
7) Diamond Valley Lake: Update on what will and will not be allowed on the lake. There are still more meetings with the water board before any thing is final. But at this point only out boards new technology motors and four strokes will be allowed.
8) Letter from Chris Welle: The letter was read and discussed.
9) Tournament rules changes: The rules changes need to be put up on the web site. 10) Sponsors: Possible new rod sponsor Warrior Rods
11) State Classic: Lake San Vincente was voted on and accepted. The dates will be Oct. 19th. & 20th. 2002. There being no further business the meeting was adjourned at 12:15 p.m.
Sal Gervasi Secretary
