Meeting Notes:

President Knop called the meeting to order at 9:04 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, Ames VP Cari McPartland, Story City VP Jo Mortvedt, Jewell VP Eudune Lund. Directors present were Patti McCoy, Deb Robinson, Jarad Prescott, Lowell Crouse and Jerry Everett, and Youth Rep Kelly McPartland. Association Manager Teri Jennings was also present. Excused from the meeting were 3^rd VP Tim Kadolph, Nevada VP Cheryl Devore directors Terri Carriere, Jane Hinman youth Directors that were excused were Aslynne Carriere and Patti Beck. Unexcused from the meeting was Kevin Holm. We had a quorum.

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

Loneman made the motion to accept the treasurer report as written. Mortvedt seconded motion. MCU.

COMMITTEE REPORTS:

1. Tournament Committee - C. McPartland gave the tournament report. Between 75 and 100 sponsor letters have been mailed out. McPartland asked for help doing follow-ups on the donation letters. She stated that we needed several $300.00 sponsors, which would cover Open team, Open singles, Open doubles and instant cash. We need a total of $1500.00-$1800.00 to cover all of the division sponsorships. The sponsor letter included a new sponsorship option that would name the tourney after the sponsor who donated $1000.00. Doll Distributing and other beer distributors have been asked to donate banners for all of the houses advertising the tournament. McPartland wants the entry forms in the houses by Dec 1. Tournament entry deadline is Fri Jan 2. We are trying to have all of our sponsor money by Nov 15^th

2. Lane Certification -  Everett reported that the lane dressing reports was done in Ames, they were going to rerun the tapes in story City, had Nevada scheduled for Monday and thought they might do Jewell today. Everett said that because of all the honor scores rolled in Ames, he was going to do another land dressing tape in Ames.

3. Budget & Finance committee -Carsrud presented the 08/09 budget for approval. MCU

4. 9-Pin tournament- Jennings read the report that Hawkins gave her. The first of our 9-pin tournaments was held in Story City on Oct 18^th and 19^th. We had 37 bowlers in the singles event and 24 entries in the doubles event. We had $37.00 in the optional singles 300 jackpot. Since there were no 300 bowled in this event it will carryover to Ames. We had $48.00 in our optional doubles 300 jackpot. Jim Beck was the only bowler to roll a 300 in the doubles and was awarded the jackpot.

5. Youth Committee report-K McPartland reported that the youth association team event will be held in Story City in two weeks and they were going to combine the doubles and singles events in 1 house, Nevada, date not set yet.

OLD BUSINESS:

The next meeting will be the Hall of Fame meeting on Nov 12 in Nevada at the American Legion.

Mortvedt made the motion to adjourn the meeting and McCoy seconded. The meeting was adjourned at 9:58.

Teri Jennings
Association Manager
Ames Area USBC