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Board of Governors Meeting Minutes April, 2005 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Board of Governors - Nebraska FROM: Captain Darin E. Huss RE: Minutes of Board of Governors Meeting on 05 April 2005 1. Members Present: MajGen Lemke, Col Evans, LtCol Zwart, MAJ Herrod, CPT Huss, CPT Martin Neal, CPT Marna Neal, CW5 (R) Nelson & CW3 Regan 2. The minutes will be given to all Representatives to review and make corrections/suggestions. If you want any changes, make them and forward them back to me. I will make the changes and send the corrected version out again for distribution. I need a response of acceptance or corrections/suggestions. 3. Next BOG meeting schedule for: a.Tuesday 7 June 2005 @ 1800, NG Museum located on Court Street by the Bob Devaney Sports Center. 4. Col Evans called the meeting to order at 1800 hours CST 5. Opening Comments: a.Col Evans started off the meeting by talking a little bit about his vision and agenda. He will go more in detail at the Spring Conference. 6. Secretary’s Report: CPT Huss a.CPT Huss was TDY during the March BOG meeting. Major Boatman took notes and will get with him when he returns from NTC. February notes were presented and approved to the BOG with no changes. 8. Treasurer’s Report: LtCol Zwart a. Treasurer’s Report was approved by majority vote. b. Issue brought up by LtCol Zwart, is if it was not for the AGAUS revenue the Association would be in the hole. We have spent more money then what we have coming in. LtCol Zwart also informed the board that LTC Murphy is back in the state and currently on orders but has been working the Corporate Sponsor issues for the upcoming AGAUS. Currently he has not generated any funds for the NE-NGA, but will re-focus on the NE-NGA once the AGAUS is completed. c. Anyone seeking to obtain a copy of April Treasurer’s Report can contact LtCol Dave Zwart @ 309-7124 or david.zwart@ne.ngb.army.mil 9. Executive Directors Report: None 10. Committee Reports a. Membership: CW3 Regan 1. CW3 Regan handed out the current membership information to the representatives present. March 30 was the initial deadline to get all officer dues in. Natalie Regan will be sending what we have to NGAUS to obtain our first 5% kickback. We also get another 5% discount on 30 July for all dues received. Current membership by organization is as follows:
*** NOTE: Any one wanting a by name list of eligible officers who still needs to pay their dues contact CW3 Regan @ 309-7117 or john.regan1@ne.ngb.army.mil b. Legislative: CPT Huss 1. To save space I will not list all the Appropriation Bills going on floor, but I have attached a web site that you can go to, to review the bills. *** For a more detailed summary of the Appropriation Bills go to the following web site: http://www.ngaus.org/legislative/legislative.asp *** 2. If anyone wants to view any of the resolutions for this years National Conference please contact CPT Darin Huss at 309-7441 or darin.huss@ne.ngb.army.mil c. Insurance: COL (R) Hatfield was not present to give his report, but it was noted that the funding issue brought up in February’s BOG meeting has been taken care of. *** Any questions or concerns with insurance policies or if you would like coverage you can contact COL (R) Dennis Hatfield @ 479-4427 or dhatfield@dor.state.ne.us or CW5 (R) Bill Nelson @ 309-7105 or william.nelson@ne.ngb.army.mil d. Web Site: Susan Ranta 1. Due to CPT Cory Hinrichs mobilizing, our publisher Susan Ranta will be taking over our Web Site for the time being. If anyone has anything that they would like to see on the site contact Susan at sranta@inebraska.com 2. To try and save some printing and postage costs we have now put the Guard Gazette on the Internet. The following link will take you to the site http://www.neguard.org. We still have the capability to mail the Gazette to you and if you would like the Gazette mailed instead of getting it on the net, let Col Evans or CW3 Regan know. e. Events – Below is a list of upcoming events that the NE-NGA is sponsoring or hosting. Col Evans is asking for volunteers to help out and head up these events. If you are interested in heading up one of these committees please contact one of the BOG members 1. NGAUS National Conference – Hawaii (16-20 September 2005) No one at this time 2. State Conference (22-23 Apr 2005) – 867th and CW5 (R) Nelson. 22 April is the Golf Tourney at Arbor Links in Nebraska City, we currently have 19 teams teeing off, but still have room for more. If interested in golfing go to http://www.neguard.org and fill out the registration form and mail it to CW5 (R) Nelson. 23 April is the Spring Conference at the Holiday Inn Downtown – Lincoln. We currently only have 8 individuals register for the conference. If you are interested in attending the Spring Conference go to http://www.neguard.org and fill out the registration form and mail it to CW3 Regan. The following are the corporate sponsors for the Spring Conference: USSA ESGR First Command NE-BX Grainger Government Employee Credit Union 11. Old Business: 1. All BOG minutes will now be published on our web site at http://www.neguard.org. 12. New Business: None 13. Company Grade Issues: a.As the National and State Company Grade Representative I would like to leave you with a few links to the Company Grade Observer and the current issues that the Company Grade Representative are working on. http://www.ngaus.org/default.asp b. NGAUS Magazine: Company Grade issues are also now featured in our National Magazine. *** Any questions relating to Company Grade issues please contact CPT Darin Huss @ 309-7441 or darin.huss@ne.ngb.army.mil 14. Meeting was adjourned by LtCol Evans at 1930. DARIN E. HUSS CPT, QM, ARNG Secretary |
