MEETING NOTES;

President Knop called the meeting to order at 7:01 p.m.

Roll call of officers and directors was taken. Present were President Greg Knop, 2^nd VP Bryan Carsrud, 3^rd VP Terri Loneman, Nevada VP Cheryl Devore, Ames VP Cari McPartland. Directors present were Tim Kadolph, Deb Robinson, Terri Carriere, Randy Moore, Jo Mortvedt, Jane Hinman. Youth committee members present were Aslynne Carriere and Kelly McPartland. Association Manger Teri Jennings was also present. Excused from the meeting were 1^st VP Patti McCoy, Story City VP Jake Jacobson, and Directors Jerry Everett and Lowell Crouse.

COMITTEE REPORTS

The Certification Committee reported that center certifications have been completed for 20^th Century, Sports Bowl, Carousel Lanes. It was also noted that because Carousel Lanes had a change in address, USBC assigned them a new center certification #30209. Axis Lanes in Jewell has been inspected, but there are a couple of areas to be adjusted or fixed prior to completion. Lane dressing tapes will be taken in the next couple of weeks, which will satisfy our requirements for the season.

Tim Kadolph reported that the By-laws and Policy Manual committee met and proposed the following changes in the policy manual.

• They proposed that Policy 3 in the policy manual which read (A) BA & WBA tournament shall alternate between Ames & Nevada. (B) The youth tournaments shall use all 3 commercial establishments to be changed to (A) BA & WBA tournaments shall rotate between all certified houses with 10 or more lanes. Rotation will be at the discretion of the tournament committee. (B) The youth tournaments shall use all certified commercial establishments that have sanctioned youth leagues. Loneman made the motion to accept the changes. Mortvedt seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously.
• They also proposed that we add the 500/600/700 Club Committee tasks to the policy manual. Loneman made the motion to accept the addition to the policy manual and Carriere seconded. MCU

• Cari McPartland gave the Tournament Committee report. She reported that the committee met prior to the board meeting. The committee has set the dates for our adult association tournament as Jan 26 and 27, Feb 2, and 3, Feb 9 & 10. Story City will host the team event and Nevada will host the doubles and singles events. The committee has also decided to add an optional All-Events scratch division to the tournament. They have also decided to raise the fee for the tournament to $15.00 per person per event.

• Jennings gave a youth committee report noting the K. McPartland had told her that he had dates set for Story City and Ames but was still waiting to hear back from Nevada for the youth association tournament.

OLD BUSINESS:

There was no old business to conduct.

NEW BUSINESS

We discussed the Iowa State USBC BA Jamboree, Hall of Fame Banquet, 40 frame game and Axis Lanes. Jennings brought up that we needed to start looking into the Registered Volunteer Program, which will have to be in place by 8/1/08. The coaching committee will look into the program. Jennings also brought up the Bowlers to Veterans Link mail in tournament and asked the board members to take copies of the entry form back to their houses and try and get the leagues to participate.

Robinson brought up the fact that we are having a problem getting a quorum present at the meeting and we needed to do something about it. There have been a few people who consistently miss meetings and we should try to get people who are interested in working on the board to be here. We have decided to try a Saturday morning meeting to see if maybe we can get more people to attend.

The next meeting date was set for Sat Oct 27 at 9:00 in Story City at Carousel Lanes. (time changed later to 8:30).

Knop adjourned the meeting at 8:00

Respectfully submitted
Teri Jennings
Ames Area USBC President