Executive Committee Minutes, Montana SAF
October 13, 2000

Plum Creek Office Missoula

 

 

Attendees: Dave Stack, Gordon Sanders, Rick Franke, Lars Halstrom, Steve Hayes, Scott Kuehn, Cait Faulkner

 

Gordy Called the meeting to order at 9:35am and welcomed all present to the Montana Executive Committee meeting.

 

The Minutes from the September 13, 2000 meeting were reviewed. Dave made a motion to accept the minutes as written Lars seconded the motion.

All those present approved the minutes as written.

 

Steve gave the financial report. The balances are as follows; balance in the check book is $3,399.98 split among the following accounts $1942.82 Foresters Fund grant, $500 Membership grant, $384.66 Dick Guth and other Memorial Fund. $174 owed to chapters for their share of dues distribution. Actual balance in operating fund is $398.50 The U of M scholarship fund has $2221.24. See the attached financial statement.

 

Chapter Reports

Flathead: Jane Kollmeyer called in a report. The Flathead Chapter held a legislative tour on October 4th. They had 24 people attend; eight were running for political office of some kind. It was a good opportunity to interact with people not normally associated with SAF. Jane would like to see a Legislative breakfast held soon after the legislative session begins in 2001.

 

Libby: Will have their first fall meeting next week, Jennifer Nelson USFS will present a talk on nutritional productivity of DF and ninebark sites. The annual spouse night will be held November 30th. The last meeting of the year will be held in December.

 

 Missoula: The chapter executive committee met on October 4th to plan the rest of this years meetings. For October Ian Marquand from KPAX will show the two videos he made this fall, Fires 2000 and The Forest for Humanity video. The chapter will meet on November 30th and celebrate the 100th anniversary of SAF. Scott Kuehn will show a revised slide and video of the presentation he made at the annual meeting. The December meeting will be traditional spouse/guest night with George Knapp giving a presentation on Lewis and Clark and the upcoming bicentennial celebration of the Corps of Discovery. The chapter is looking for ways to help the students attend the national meeting in D.C. next month.

 

Eastside: Nothing new to report. Their meeting announcements and dates are on the web site. Lars attended the Forest management hearings in Missoula and Billings and submitted testimony for the Billings hearing.

 

Student: No report. They meet the second and fourth Thursday every month, Gordy will try and make it to one of their next meetings.

 

Committee Reports:

 

Science and Technology: No report.

Centennial Committee: The time capsule was buried at the Fort during the annual meeting. The large rock and plaque will be installed over the time capsule sometime this fall.

Policy: Plans are underway for the legislative breakfast the first or second week of January in Helena. The committee is working on the format and agenda. There will soon be a revised version of the rocky mountain standards for FSC certification. Gordy will keep track of what is going on. Dave would like to see SAF get involved in the air quality issue in Montana. The committee will work on details and send a letter to let the principals know we are interested and would like to offer our expertise.

Newsletter: The next issue of the newsletter will be mailed out next week. Cait would like to see Montana have a distinctive logo to differentiate us from other SAF publications. Cait will follow-up with the chapter chairs for ideas. Cait should know in early December what her future plans in relation to continuing to do the newsletter are. The question was asked what do we do with extra copies of the newsletter? We should use them to help generate new membership, maybe distribute to appropriate offices around the state.

CFE/CF: Nothing new to report.

Mentor Program: Nothing new to report.

Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp: Nothing new to report.

Cultural Diversity: Nothing new to report.

Membership: Nothing new to report.

Communications: We had some good feedback from the national office on the State meeting. Bev is looking for new media contacts and ways to get SAF info out to the public.

BLM Advisory Council: Nothing new to report.

 

 Old Business:

Recap on 2000 Annual Meeting: Still working on the final financial report. Good verbal feed back from those that attended, especially from national. We need to continue to promote attendance through the individual Chapters. Survey members that didn't attend and ask what would make the annual meeting attractive to them.

Forests for Humanity: Tomorrow Saturday 14th the Family will plant trees on the Qually Tree Farm where the logs for their house were harvested. Another media event, film footage will be taken to add to the video.

Update on State Meeting 2001: Eastside Chapter will discuss at their October 26 meeting. The next annual meeting will be held in the spring.

Review 2000 Goals: see attached 2000 Goals. The group felt that most goals set up for 2000 either have been accomplished or will be by the end of the year. It was also mentioned that goal setting at the beginning of the year is a worthwhile activity.

 

New Business:

 

Students' trip to D.C.: The Student Chapter is looking for financial help to get to the National convention in Washington D.C. Since the State account doesn't have much extra funding this year, the students will work with the individual chapters to get donations for travel assistance.

John Ottman's Challenge: At the banquet John Otttman offered to donate the first $10,000 to truck building material and build a Habitat Home somewhere on the East Coast. He challenged SAF and MLA to match his offer to get the project done. Dave Stack and Scott Kuehn will sit down with John and find out his objectives, and work out the details. A lot of other ideas on how to set up this project, to get the best result were discussed.

 

 

Next Meeting will be December 15th 9:30am at Plum Creek Office Missoula

 

 

Gordy adjourned the meeting at 12:10 p.m.

Minutes submitted by Secretary Steve Hayes

 

 

MONTANA SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS

2000 Goals & Objectives

·         Encourage each chapter to host an open forum or presentation on a natural resource issue, like bringing Patrick Moore to town.

 

·         Membership drives – add at least 10 new members.

·         Sponsor/Co-sponsor Habitat home to be built in 2001.

·         Launch Montana Forest for Humanities project.

·         Conduct the Leadership Conference in coordination with the Inland Empire Society.

·         Develop Centennial Events for 2000 - Lewistown project, time capsule, centennial committee report after the annual meeting.

 

·         Conduct the annual meeting creating the vision for Professional Forestry into the 21st Century.

 

·         Create three new leaders.

·         Increase SAF exposure to the public for historic, educational, and professional reasons during the year. Have the Society recognized throughout Montana as “the” professional group with the press and media.

 

·         Expand upon the role and involvement of the policy committee, increase their exposure publicly and have others look to them for sound credible information on important issues.

 

 

FINANCIAL STATEMENT OCTOBER 13, 2000

 

 

2000 Proposed Budget

Actual YTD Budget

Difference

 

 

 

 

EXPENSE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dues Distribution

$950.00 

  $300.00 

  $650.00 

Newsletter Printing & Postage

$1,200.00 

$850.14 

$349.86 

Postage

$175.00 

$99.06 

$75.94 

Awards

$200.00 

$347.05 

($147.05)

HSD Assessment

$150.00 

$144.84 

$5.16 

Student Chapter

$400.00 

 

$400.00 

NRYC

$100.00 

$100.00 

$0.00 

Other Donations

$0.00 

 

$0.00 

Forests for Humanity

$0.00  

 

$0.00 

Time Capsule

$0.00 

$1,371.00 

($1,371.00)

Check Printing

$0.00 

 

$0.00 

Foresters Fund

$5,600.00 

$1,414.18 

$4,185.82 

Legislative Breakfast

$0.00 

 

$0.00 

State Meeting Expenses

$250.00 

 

$250.00 

Leadership Conference

$2,500.00 

$1,380.75 

$1,119.25 

Liability Insurance

$0.00 

$0.00 

$0.00 

Publications

$0.00 

$199.41 

($199.41)

Miscellaneous

$500.00 

$76.00 

$424.00 

 

$12,025.00 

$6,282.43 

$5,742.57 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INCOME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dues Distribution

$1,700.00

$974.50

$725.50 

Interest

$30.00

$19.42

$10.58 

State Meeting Income

$1,500.00

$328.83

$1,171.17 

Newsletter Advertising

$0.00

$40.00

($40.00)

Foresters Fund

$5,600.00

$4,257.00

$1,343.00 

Leadership Conference

$2,500.00

$1,480.00

$1,020.00 

Miscellaneous Income

$0.00

$250.00

($250.00)

Guth &Memorial Fund

$0.00

$105.00

($105.00)

 

$11,330.00

$7,454.75

$3,875.25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PROFIT/LOSS

($695.00)

$1,172.32

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Checking Account Balance

$3,399.98 

 

 

Foresters Fund

$1,942.82 

 

 

Membership Grant

$500.00 

 

 

Guth & Memorial Fund

$384.66 

 

 

Chapter Dues

$174.00 

 

 

Operating Funds

$398.50