Meeting Notes:

President Knop called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m.

Roll call of officers and directors was taken. Present were President Greg Knop, 1^st VP Bryan Carsrud, 2^nd VP Terri Loneman, 3^rd VP Tim Kadolph, Nevada VP Cheryl Devore, Ames VP Cari McPartland, and Jewell VP Eudune Lund. Directors present were Patti McCoy, Deb Robinson, Jarad Prescott, Jo Mortvedt, Lowell Crouse and Kevin Holm. Association Manager Teri Jennings was also present. Excused from the meeting were directors Jerry Everett, Terri Carriere, and Jane Hinman. Youth Directors that were excused were Aslynne Carriere, Kelly McPartland and Patti Beck. We had a quorum.

President Knop announced to the board that Story City VP Jake Jacobson had resigned from the board effective immediately. He then introduced our new director Kevin Holm.

Carsrud moved to accept the minutes of the previous meeting. Mortvedt seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously.

We looked at the treasurer report and amended it to delete accounts that are no longer in use. Robinson made the motion to accept the report as amended. Kadolph seconded motion. MCU.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

1. Tournament Committee: C. McPartland reported on changes and clarifications that were made to the entry form. She reminded everybody that the tournament will be held on Jan 17^th, 18th, 24th and 25^th. There will be 3 shifts on Saturday, including an evening shift and 2 shifts on Sunday. We discussed ways to increase entries in the women’s division of our tournament. We decided to lower the entry fee for the women’s division. We will charge $13.00 per person per event. The breakdown on the fees will be $7.50 lineage, $1.50 tournament expense and $4.00 to the prize fund. We will also do separate entry forms for the open and the women’s division.

2. Budget & Finance committee-McCoy presented the budget. The board discussed the budget as it was written and it was decided that the committee should meet again and put thing in more categories and subcategories. We tabled the vote until the next meeting.

3. RVP – Jennings read the report that RVS Keith Hawkins gave to her. So far Carousel Lanes and Sports Bowl have decided to participate in the Registered Volunteer Program. We have had several people who are interested in becoming RVP. The cost of this program is $25.00 per person for the background screening and it is good for 2 years. The board has decided at this time we will fund upto 25 volunteers.

4. 9-Pin tournament- Jennings again read the report that Hawkins gave her. The tournament will be held at Carousel Lanes on Oct 18^th & 19^th, 20^th Century on Nov 8^th & 9^th and Sports Bowl in Dec 13^th & 14^th. The times are Saturday 10-4 and Sunday from 10-2. The price of the entry fee went up to $14.00.

OLD BUSINESS:

The board was reminded that the Iowa State USBC BA Jamboree will be held next weekend in Spirit Lake.

NEW BUSINESS:

1. Youth Bowling- Knop talked about how we, as a board, need to get out to the schools and talk to schools and parents about youth bowling. We also need to see how we can get the youth bowling programs listed in the various cities Parks and Recreation books and also on the city utility bills.

2. Iowa State USBC WBA- Knop talked about an email received from the ISUSBC WBA office requesting information to be put in their newsletter. We are going to try and start sending them the firsts 500-600 and 700 series.

3. 2^nd Annual Bowling to Veterans Link (BVL)- Jennings reminded everybody to try and get entries for this mail in tournament.

We set the date for the next meeting as Nov 1^st at 9:00 am at 20^th Century Bowling in Ames. We will also have a the Hall of Fame meeting on Wednesday November 12^th at the American Legion in Nevada.

Kadolph made the motion to adjourn the meeting and Mortvedt seconded. The meeting was adjourned at 11:15.

Respectfully submitted
Terri Loneman
2^nd Vice-President