Cal-ILA Board of Directors
Meeting Minutes
Cal-Ila Board Meeting
February 7, 2006
Held at Stonehenge Llama Ranch, Vacaville
Present:
Margaret Ricci - President
Lee Beringsmith - Vice President
Dennie Hansen - Treasurer
Mary Adams - Secretary
Suzann Penry - Director
Greg Sykes - Director
Meeting called to order 10:33 am
General Membership Meeting-Davis:
- Start time set for 8AM March 11, 2006
- Board Members to arrive at 7am to set up.
- Margaret will make up the Agenda and ballots for election
Morning Potluck Breakfast will be in auditorium Not in Cafeteria as usual. We will provide coffee (55 Cup pot of Dennie Hansen's and the Cal-Ila 100 Cup pot) Dennie will shop for the coffee, bottled water, creamers, sugar etc. Greg Sykes will bring any left over sodas, tea, hot chocolate etc from the last event.
Deli Delight Lunch - $10.00 per person
Speakers & Lectures on llama related items Debra Slocum will speak on the Delta Society Therapy Llamas Nina Pederson DVD on students on ranch Jane from Yolo Wool Mill will speak on the co-op
Vet Panel - audience question & answer session try to hold down to 3 min per question. Danny Mora Rena Ferreira Murray Flower
Raffle/Live & Silent Auctions MSP to request Trish Brandt-Robuck to run the live auction again this year since she did such a fabulous job last year!
Election for Cal-ILA Board Since at this time we have no candidates running for office, MSP to offer the opportunity for anyone interested in being on the Cal-ILA Board to get up and tell the group a little something of themselves and that way they can be “write-in candidates.”
Cal-ILA Trailer Advertisement space Greg will bring the trailer and pictures showing how the spaces can be placed on the trailer. 2X2 ads for $150 for 2 years except on the back and drivers side they will be $200.
American River Great American River Parkway Walk
- Lee Beringsmith was able to adopt mile '14' for us as volunteers to clean up once a quarter. There is a variety of terrain and it just takes a couple of hours out of our day. We have a two-year commitment and we will also be provided signage with our group name posted on that mile noting that we are volunteer sponsors working to keep the river walk beautiful. This can make a great outing as well as doing something meaningful for others. Lee and Suzann will set up dates for this project and have them posted on the website.
UC Davis Inaugural Camelid Symposium was held in January 2006.
- Margaret Ricci attended the symposium and the speaker was Victor Valise. Margaret has a CD with all the data covered at the symposium along with permission to copy it and print it's data. Lee Beringsmith offered to “burn” 10 copies for the Davis Membership Meeting and MSP to sell them for $5.00 each at the meeting or $6.00 if shipped. Margaret said there was a lot of valuable data regarding microchips etc. on the disc that we all could benefit from. We will have a binder with the printed material for members to see so they can decide if they wish a copy.
LAGOON VALLEY PARK
- in Vacaville was suggested as a good place for having a basic pack trial.
- Margaret will check with the PTLA
2006 State Fair
- Suzann is getting things organized for the upcoming event. She has been requesting via e-mail to prospective committee members for assistance and waiting for responses. Tasks will be assigned to different members to help make this event successful. Suzann did a remarkable job and has great ideas to make 2006 even better than 2005.
- Stalls: We will try to get a buffer zone between our llamas and the general public. Suggest all exhibitors place something under the mats to absorb urine and help eliminate unpleasant orders.
- Ice Cream Social Esther Sue and Greg Sykes have agreed to be in charge of the Ice Cream Social since it was a great hit at the last show
- Friday Night BBQ Larry Luporini will be in charge of the potluck BBQ held in the RV park area Friday night.
- Obstacles Larry will also be in charge of setting up the obstacles for the performance classes.
Grass Valley
- Show has been sanctioned as a double show & both judges hired
- Judy Johnson to help Tom Hansen and will be using Les Flynn's program again.
- Quality Llama Products has agreed to come down as a vender
- Boys Scouts will do setup for $300. Will start on Wednesday & complete on Thursday. Ken DeHart will over see the set up. Self-tear down of stalls again as last year. Rick Adams has agreed to make signs to show where to put the various panels.
- 4H Club will have Breakfast and Lunch on Saturday and Sunday. Tom will try to get the Coffee Late' lady again this year also.
- Friday Night BBQ bring your own meat and a dish to share. Larry will be in charge of this one.
- Saturday Night BBQ: Greg will fry up hamburgers again and there will be margaritas!!
- MSP to order new set of ribbons for the shows. The shows names this year will be the Ponderosa Show and the Redwood Show.
- Michelle Katzakian to over see the youth auction and raffle.
- NO walking fiber class since we were unable to get a judge
- Registration closes May 5th, 2006 and entry forms will be on-line in March to download.
- Lee will try to get show advertised in the Llama Link magazine.
- Karen DeHart will get something in the local newspaper to help draw more people out to learn about Llamas.
- MSP - All animals must be stalled in stalls provided by the Grass Valley Fairgrounds to be able to participate in the show.
Solano County Fair July 13-15, 2006.
- Morning Registration & Vet check on Thursday 7/13.
- Halter classes on the 14th
- Performance on the 15th
- Departure 6pm on the 15th
- NO parade this year
Membership Register
- MSP to keep all Vets on the list and also listed on the website. We give them free membership so there is no reason to wait for form to be returned each year.
- 540 people on register and only 60 paid dues. MSP to clean up list as well as possible.
Clipper Party April 15, 2006
- 9am at Rick and Mary Adams'. Wild Oak Llamas
12187 Dogwood Road, Grass Valley - Learn different ways to shear you llamas
- Obstacle course set up to play with
- Potluck BBQ