CLD August 28 Board Meeting Minutes

August 28, 2023
CenterLine Dressage Board Meeting

Present: Judy Nordstrom, Theresa Smith, Katie Keim, Alice Martin, Teresa Litchfield, Deb Bonner
Meeting called to order at 7:11 PM.

Meeting will be held in 2 sections as we are using the free version of Webex, which limits meetings to 40
minutes.
• It was discussed that we purchase a subscription in order to have uninterrupted meetings
• Deb Bonner suggested CLD purchase a basic Zoom subscription
• Teresa Smith agreed with Zoom as it is cheaper than Webex

Voting Ballot

• We need to create a voting ballot for the 2024 CLD Board

• Ballot needs to be sent out to all CLD members

• Ballot should be e-blasted and posted on the CLD website

• It needs to be posted 30 days
  

• Current Board:

  • President: Judy Nordstrom

  • Vice-President: Theresa Smith

  • Secretary: Marilyn Weber

  • Treasurer: Katie Keim

  • Membership Secretary: Theresa Smith

  • Reader Newsletter Editor: Alice Martin

  • Awards Chairman: Chante Erikson

  • Webmaster: Deb Bonner

  • Member At Large- Paula Briney

  • Member At Large -John Simpson

  • Member At Large – Leslie Burket

  • Member at Large – Teresa Litchfield

  Seats that are up for vote
  

  • Judy Nordstrom, (said she was willing to stay on the board but does not want to be president again)

  • Leslie Burket – We may need to contact her directly as many of her emails
    bounce and she has had difficulty logging in to meetings

  • Katie Keim – (said she was willing to remain on the board in the current position)
    Teresa Litchfield (said she is undecided if she would like to remain on the board)

• Deb Bonner will send out an Email Dodo asking all current CLD Board Members if they:

  • Want to stay on the board in their current position

  • Want to stay on the board but are interested in considering a new position

  • Do not want to stay on the board

Icebreaker 2024
• We have been asked if we would like to make Icebreaker a 2-day show
• We supply the volunteers (as we currently do)
• We split the profits with AVS (as we currently do)
• We may have to pay extra for judges’ fees and ribbons for the extra day

Motion Made by Deb Bonner- CLD makes Icebreaker a 2-day show in 2024
Motion Seconded by Theresa Litchfield
MOTION CARRIED

• Deb Bonner said she has not received the results for Icebreaker 2023 for posting on the website
• Judy Nordstrom has the results, but they are not formatted for the web- just all of the individual results
• Judy will drop copies off to Deb so she can format and post them to the web and be available for the year end awards as needed.

Old Business
• Competition Licenses have been renewed for Level 2
• Judy Nordstrom was charged $50 to be a signer
• Theresa Litchfield took care of getting CLD’s nonprofit status renewed
• CLD will need representation at the annual convention for our GMO
• Any person can carry our votes
• We need to decide by August 31, 2023

MEETING BREAK—————————————————————————————————————

Members present at the new meeting: Judy Nordstrom, Teresa Smith, Katie Keim, Tae Erikson, Deb Bonner

Old Business Continued
• CLD will need representation at the annual convention for our GMO (continued)
• Teresa Smith will atend and represent CLD

Awards Banquet
• Held first weekend in November (which would be November 4, 2023)
• New board members and officers are announced at the banquet
• We may need to increase dinner price this year as we lose money every year at the banquet

New Business
• Deb Bonner suggested that we start planning now for shows/clinics/events we CLD would like to hold in 2024
• Teresa Smith commented CLD had a very robust schedule this year with 3 schooling shows, 1 rated show, a grooming clinic, and our partnership with Starwest on the Suzanne von Deitze Clinic
• Deb commented that we do need to consider more grassroots/beginner-level events in order to attract new people to dressage as a discipline and look at both mounted and unmounted events
– Ride a test before the 2024 season starts (was commented that there was not interest in these as CLD has tried them in the past)
– A poles clinic
-Free-style Clinic (Tae Erikson agreed to do one in 2024)

Motion Made to adjourn the meeting by Tae Erikson
Motion Seconded by Deb Bonner