Minutes of the IFALDA Galway, Ireland  Board Meeting    May 5, 2003  PDF

MINUTES OF IFALDA BOARD MEETING
HELD IN GALWAY 5 MAY 2003

Present:           Allan Rossmore  President         
Aidan Fox                                  VP East
Rick Ketchersid  VP Finance       
Kathy Warner                                        VP Admin         
Brad Rasmussen            Director Regulatory Affairs        
James Ford                               Director IT       
Jan Hoehne                               Director European Industry/Regulatory

 Affairs
The Minutes of the previous Board Meeting held in Atlanta in February were approved.  Proposed James Ford, seconded Aidan Fox.

Aidan reported that Gerald Clifford was making a good recovery following his recent operation.

AGM
President stated that brief cv’s were still required from two speakers, Phil Smith and Randy Rohan.  Brad Rasmussen agreed to obtain these.

Rick Ketchersid agreed to handle the issue of receipts for both  annual dues and the conference fees.

Aidan ran through the arrangements made for the vendors etc.  Current numbers registered – 28 vendors, 47 delegates and 20 companions.

It was decided that the Board would be split equally to attend the EUFALDA and ADF Business Meetings.

Elections
VP East - Aidan Fox was confirmed as being willing to continue, no other nominations had been received so far.

VP Admin -  Kathy Warner confirmed her resignation from this post and replacements were discussed, there having been no official nominations to date.  Peter Rogl was thought to be unwilling to stand, other possible candidates included Jerry Elder from Delta and Andy Konstas from United.

AGM 2004
The venue has been decided upon as Seattle.  It was agreed that James Ford should keep the finance database together with Rick Ketchersid as an IFALDA function and that Tracie Benson should organise the vendors.

There was some discussion regarding the proposed organisation of the 2004 event.

There was some further discussion about the upcoming Summit in Galway and President expressed his extreme gratitude to Aidan Fox for all the work carried out to organise this and achieve good support under difficult circumstances.

JAA Iceland
The next JAA Meeting in Iceland was discussed in view of the high cost expected to attend this event, approx $1500 per delegate.  The general feeling of the meeting was that the two delegates should attend this and the Board agreed to this subject to announcement of the final financial position.  This decision should be ratified at the next Board Meeting.

Next Board Meeting
A provisional date of 19^th July 2003 in MIA was agreed.

President thanked everybody for their attendance and the meeting was adjourned at 1800LT