OLA Board Meeting

The Oregon Lakes Association has monthly board meetings. The minutes from the current meeting are posted below. Archives of past meetings are available on PDF by following the links at right.

OREGON LAKES ASSOCIATION
MEETING MINUTES
September 12, 2008

Board members present: Roger Edwards (Pres), Karen Williams (Secretary, DEQ), Mark Rosenkranz (Lake Oswego Corp.), Paul Robertson (Devils Lake Water Improvement District), Steve Wille (US Fish and Wildlife), Toni Pennington (Treasurer, Tetra Tech), Ben Johnson (Lake Oswego Corp./ PSU ), Al Johnson ( USFS), Jennie Bricker (Stoel Rives).

• July minutes were not available for review.
• No Treasurer’s report.

Committee Reports :

Conference : Review details for presentations tomorrow. Discuss reimbursement for Tribal speakers. Roger would like to acknowledge Stoel Rives’ contributions such as the phone service and donation to the panel. Also will mention benefits of serving on a board. Hach will be announced as sponsor but is not in the program.

Newsletter : Roger asks if we can cite secondary sources, such as Lake Line, or if there are copyright issues. There is a list of current citations on the website – we could update on an annual basis. Could save or archive website but would still need to get permission.

Other business :

Elections: Toni and Roger are willing to serve in their positions another term. Jennie has another possibility for her position – a fellow attorney at Stoel Rives that specializes in real estate.

Discussion of NALMS membership – is it worth $250/year? Toni will bring up at November meeting. It is recommended we work with NALMS to be able to use credit cards for registration – this would likely increase preregistrations for our conference.

Joint 2011 meeting with WALPA discussed. Roger speaks highly of the past joint meeting in Portland. Mark attributes a lot of the success to PSU. The fact that the 2011 meeting is in Spokane might be a problem. Paul questions if we would split the attendance money. Toni suggests this might be a disadvantage for us (fewer attendees from OR).

Roger says we are still in good financial shape from annual dues.

Meeting Adjourned.

Respectfully Submitted,

Karen Williams, Secretary