Executive Director's Report by Bob Papp
- Lobbying efforts highly successful
- 17 Representatives and
- 13 of the 14 Senators in our 7 states have signed on to request for additional funding for NCT
- (14th Senator will support, but can't sign because he is on committee)
- Now this request goes into committees, and we need to continue pressure
- Appropriations Subcommittee of Dept of Interior- has 12
- unusual that 4 of the members of the committee are from the trail area
- Hinchey- NY
- Peterson-
- Merthe- PA
- Regula- OH
- Tait- Merthe is very supportive, need to make better contacts with staff
- Williamson- needs info on these people in order to network contacts
- Papp- will do one page primer on who they are and what the process is
- Beye- do Congresspersons get the North Star?
- Papp- some do, but a lot gets thrown out
- Visits to chapters- 3 or 4 this year
- Papp would like to travel once a month
- money is available to do this
- Willing Seller-
- Blount- Paige (?) of Idaho has been stirring it up- should come to a vote this year
- Papp- provision to build visitor's center per state was stuck, has slowed up
Cartographer's Report by Tiffany Halfmann
- showed draft samples of 1:100,000 maps
- making corrections takes a lot of time
- got another workstation and another copy of ArcView and integration software for printer
- gave tours to cartography students
- Young- good comments on quality of 1:100,000 maps
- some marketing of 1:24,000 vs 1:100,000 maps is being done to see which if more in demand
- grant has been submitted for ArcInfo, but ????
Annual Conference by Margie Kindel
- registration information in April North Star
- and it's on the web site- Dave Adams set up page as volunteer
- Irene Szabo has done great job getting it organized
- board meeting scheduled for Thursday as requested at last meeting to free directors to enjoy conf
- Veit- reminder that there will be real business that needs to be conducted
- we need to come to grips with what the conf is- an outing or a business opportunity?
- budget can't hold separate event to just conduct business, maybe we need weekend just for Board and Trail Councils
- Beye- hard to get Trail Council members to show up
- Williamson- set short meetings early in the mornings that don't compete with hikes
- accommodate programs by taking breaks in business if necessary
Field Grants report by Gaylord Yost
- $12,000 available for grants
- 4 cycles of disbursal in the year, 9 requests in first cycle
- not all requests were fully funded so as not to deplete budget
- see handout for details- most requests were not fully funded for a total of $3875
- $8125 remaining for next 3 cycles
- Young- wondered what the criteria were for choosing percent of request granted
- Papp- requests historically have come in sporadically
- committee may reconsider increasing first requests if few applications come in
- Papp- experience may lead to a basis for better decisions, it's a learning process
- Williamson- would it be better to have one due date per year?
- Papp- wanted to make it possible for people to get money throughout the year
Awards Committee Report by Helen Coyne
- is reworking the list of awards given by the Association, should be done by Conference
- Vanguard awards will be given to Carl Levin, and Ralph Regula
- Board will confirm these awards
- Motion by Williamson, support by Beye to honor them with Vanguard Award. Approved.
State of the States
New York by Howard Beye
Pennsylvania by Bob Tait
Ohio by Richard Harris
Wisconsin and Michigan UP by Gaylord Yost
LP Michigan by Werner Veit
Minnesota by Daryl Williamson
Mass Mailing Papp
North Dakota- no report
Training Request presented by Bob Tait
New Business
Adjourned 4:15 pm
Minutes recorded by Joan Young, Secretary