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Board of Governors Meeting Minutes February, 2005 MEMORANDUM TO: Members of the Board of Governors - Nebraska FROM: Captain Darin E. Huss RE: Minutes of Board of Governors Meeting on 01 February 2005 1. Members Present: COL Evans, COL (R) Hatfield, LTC Ladd, LTC Navrkal, MAJ Stevens, MAJ Boatman, MAJ Melton, CPT Huss, 1LT Siemsen & CW3 Regan Not Present: MG Lempke, LtCol Bohac, LtCol Husted, LtCol Love, LtCol Zwart, LTC Neumann, MAJ Gray, MAJ Dalton, MAJ Herrod, MAJ Kneifl, MAJ Andersen, MAJ Virus, CPT Hesse, CPT Kuhn, CPT Fujan, CPT Neil & 1LT Siemsen, Mr. Nelson 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. 1 March 2005 @ NG Museum located on Court Street by the Bob Devaney Center. 4. LTC Ladd called the meeting to order at 1800 hours CST. 5. Opening Comments: a. LTC Ladd started off the meeting by apologizing for the traffic from the Nebraska Basketball game, and that the meeting would be rather short due the ED having to leave early. 6. Secretary’s Report: CPT Huss a. There was no secretary’s report from the January meeting due to not having enough representatives present for a forum, meeting was cancelled. 8. Treasurer’s Report: MAJ Stevens a. Treasurer’s Report was approved by majority vote. 1. Issue brought up by Major Stevens, is if it was not the AGAUS revenue the Association would be in the hole. We have spent more money then what we have coming in. Major Stevens also informed the board, even though LTC Murphy is on a Title 10 Tour in DC he has still been working the sponsor’s issues. He has not generated any funds for the NE-NGA, but continues to bring in corporate sponsors for the AGAUS. b. Anyone seeking to obtain a copy of August’s Treasurer’s Report can contact Major Chad Stevens @ 309-7372 or chad.stevens@ne.ngb.army.mil 9. Executive Directors Report: a. CW3 Regan handed out Association Dollars Off Certificates (ADOC) which are certificates that entitles up to nine (9) passengers to a discount off a qualifying published Coach Class or First Class fare for roundtrip travel solely on Northwest Airlines flights between the dates of 12 September – 23 September 2005 to the National Convention held in Hawaii. The average savings appears to be $70. Anyone interested or wants a certificate contact CW3 Regan @ 309-7117 or john.regan@ne.ngb.army.mil 10. Committee Reports: a. Membership: LTC Ladd / CW3 Regan 1. CW3 Regan handed out the current membership number to the respected representatives (see below). Again we are pushing to get all membership dues in by NLT 30 March 2005. The reason for the push is, at this time the State receives a 5% refund on all dues received by 30 March 2005. We then get another 5% discount on 30 July for all dues received. So the more dues received by 30 March means more revenue for the Association.
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. http://www.ngaus.org/legislative/legislative.asp c. If anyone wants to view any of the resolutions for this years National Conference please contact CPT Darin Huss @ 309-7441 or darin.huss@ne.ngb.army.mil, if not they will be published on our web site. d. Insurance: COL (R) Hatfield, reported that he is having some problems with Austin Jenkins in ref to getting paid. Right now COL (R) Hatfield has estimated that Mr. Jenkins owes the Association and COL Hatfield approx $5,800 a piece. LTC Ladd will be sending Mr. Jenkins a letter to try and expedite the payment. *** 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 e. Web Site: CPT Hinrichs 1. 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 LTC Ladd or CW3 Regan know. 2. LTC Ladd, CPT Hinrichs and CW3 Regan along with the help of Susan Ranta, are heading up the project to get our web site back on line and more user friendly. Along with Gazette, we will also be placing our Corporate Sponsors ads on the site to ensure the greatest exposure for them. They have also coordinated with the retirees, and have placed their web page on ours. 3. If anyone has any ideas for suggestions for making our web site better please contact CW3 Regan @ 309-7108 or john.regan@ne.ngb.army.mil or LTC Ladd @ 309-7351 or douglas.ladd@ne.ngb.army.mil f. Events: Below is a list of upcoming events that the NE-NGA is sponsoring or hosting. LTC Ladd 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 (date TBD 2005) – No one at this time 2. Legislative Breakfast (Feb 2005) – No one at this time (MG Lempke would like ideas on new ways to material to present to the Legislative staff). 3. State Conference (22-23 Apr 2005) – 867th and CW5 (R) Nelson. 22 April is the Golf Tourney at Arbor Links in Nebraska City 23 April is the Conference at the Holiday Inn Downtown - Lincoln 11. Old Business: None 12. New Business: 1. The association received two requests for funds to help support upcoming events. a. 1SG Manko requested $500.00 to help support the 5th Army YTB. Which was disapproved. b. CAV requested $200.00 to help support the 267th Demobilization. which was approved. 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 LTC Ladd at 1845. DARIN E. HUSS CPT, QM, ARNG Secretary |
