Board Meeting

1. At 9:06 AM the President called the IGRA Board Meeting to order. The entire Executive Board was present as well as most of the Trustees. A few Trustees were not present due to work schedules or finances at their home cities.
   • A quorum was met.
   • On the Monday night before IGRA Board Meetings, there were supposed to be telephonic Committee Chair meetings. While this was the plan, no one mentioned if the Committee meetings occurred.
   • The IGRA Secretary did a roll call.
2. General Announcements
   • Please bring all Hotel Related Issues to Scotty Shaddix or Buce Roby, IGRA's Hotel Coordinators for this Convention.
   • Parking Passes at the Hotel will be at a fee of $ 8 per day, which is discounted from the Hotel's regular fee.
   • Bar Crawl is tonight, Thursday evening, November 14, 2013.
   • There is still a need for Teams to enter the Drag Factor.
   • Janie Van Santen mentioned that the Saturday Evening Paladin Awards Dinner was almost full.
3. The minutes of the last IGRA Board Meeting, July12, 2013, which was held at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Golden, Colorado were approved.
4. The President's and Vice President's Reports were deferred until Convention
5. The Treasurer gave an abbreviated report by saying:
   • IAGRA still owed $ 600 membership fees, plus a $200 fine.
   • SSGRA still owed $ 600 membership fees, plus a $200 fine, plus $217.34 for Insurance. SSGRA will not be renewing their membership.
6. Trustee Chair Report
   • There will be a Trustee Meeting immediately after this meeting.
7. Administrative Assistant's Report
   • The 2014 Rodeo/Rodeo Schools schedule will be sent to Kaliff Insurance in January 2014.
   • Jack Daniels, Inc., wants IGRA to have higher limits of Insurance to be safe.
8. Auditor's Report
   • Jabby Lowe is the current IGRA Auditor.
   • His audit took an appropriate sample size of data and files from the IGRA Treasurer, and he found no errors or irregularities.
9. Committee Reports
   • All Committee Reports were deferred to Convention.
   • Gay Games Chair will be sending out emails to Trustees and requested that the Trustees make further dissemination to their own Associations.
10. Requested Change in IGRA Board Meetings in 2014
    • MIGRA is not holding a rodeo, and was scheduled to hold an IGRA Board Meeting. Therefore MIGRA requested someone else sponsor the third IGRA Board meeting in 2014.
    • After much discussion, and the desire to hold the third meeting prior to Gay Games in August, a request was made to Robert Thurtell, President of CGRA, to see if CGRA would be willing to host this meeting. He agreed. So CGRA will hold this meeting one day prior to their July rodeo.
11. New Business
    • The various related costs of Gay Games Rodeo were discussed.
    • The 2014 Rodeo Schedule was approved.
12. The IGRA Board Meeting was adjourned at 9:49 AM.
13. Later the IGRA Board meeting re-convened because the Chair had not asked for the Treasurer's Report.
    • David Hill then gave his report. A few minor questions were asked and promptly answered.
    • The Treasurer's Report was then approved.
14. The IGRA Board Meeting was then adjourned for the second time at 10:15 AM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Tom Lott
ASGRA Trustee

Trustees Meeting

1. The meeting was called to order at 10:15 AM.
2. A Roll Call was made of all attendees. Larry Lindstrom was asked to attend and take minutes.
3. The minutes of the last Trustee meeting which was held at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Golden, Colorado were approved with one minor exception. Previous minutes carried a date of 2012, which was changed to 2013.
4. Certification and Re-certifications:
   1. Judges were re-certified. Terry Covington was added as a new Certified Judge. Kami Boles was added as a new Student Judge.
   2. Then Arena Directors, Auditors, Secretaries, Scorekeepers, and Chute Coordinators were re-certified.
5. Old Business - There was no Old Business.
6. New Business - There was no New Business
7. After the Trustee Meeting, there was an EPRB Meeting. While the subject matter cannot be included here, the Trustees accepted a proposed solution not to elevate present problems to a formal EPRB.
8. The Trustees meeting adjourned at 12:12 PM

Respectfully submitted by Tom Lott, ASGRA trustee

29th Annual Convention Highlights
November 16-17, 2013

The following are selected notes from the 29th IGRA Annual Convention. While these notes are taken in their order of presentation, not all speakers are covered here.

• Presently there are 22 Member Associations.
• In 1987 the average age of IGRA members was 32.3 years old. The average age of current IGRA members is presently 45.5 years old. (Personal note: Frank at age 61, and Tom at age 71 are skewing our present data.)
• The following three Associations have been removed from IGRA: HSRA, CCGRA, SSGRA.
• There presently are 1,685 IGRA active members. In 2007 there were 3,370 active members.
• 2014 IGRA University is January 17-18.
• Next year's IGRA Convention will be in Denver, at the Double Tree. Rooms are $85 plus tax, with Wi-Fi and breakfast free. Two suites are available which cost $125, plus tax each.
• FGRA/NGRA made presentations to hold 2015 IGRA Convention. FGRA won. The Convention will be at the Sirata Beach Resort, in St Petersburg, FL .. on the beach. It will be held Nov 12-15, 2015.
• Bruce Gros, CGRA, was elected IGRA Secretary.
• James Jenkins, CGRA, was elected IGRA Vice President.
• The Trustee Chair is Ray Ostman
• Division Two Chair is Janie Van Santen
• Division 4 Chair is Steve Schultz.