May 12th Board Meeting Minutes|2018 Board Minutes|Forum|Bow Hunters of Alabama

May 12, 2018 Board Meeting Minutes

Chester- opened in prayer
William read Article II
Minutes approved-Amanda A, Bobby Ingram second
Financial report approved- Charmen M, Amanda A second.

North Zone -going well, but slow due to weather.
Central Zone -going slow due to weather also, doing well also.
Southern Zone-weather is affecting as well, but doing good. Have two new chapters that want to join.
Chapter Reports:
Alex City-going good, and have new targets. Have a shoot June 2nd and welcome shooters.
Autauga-bought twenty new targets, all with new cores as well. They also had their first shoot that brought a little over 40 shooters.
Barbour-have a shoot in June and hope to do good. Helped with the R100 and now looking forward to the state shoot.
Blount-doing good.
Calhoun-did okay for their three day shoot. Brought over a little over 70 shooters. They have joined up with 4-H and now have access to the building. They have a lot of work to do with the building and hope to get grant to get it fixed.
Chilton-Larry said he had a conversation with Riley and was told that there is plenty of money in the bank and had targets. They are still looking at land. They have someone that would like to help get the chapter going again.
Covington-going good and had a good turnout on their shoot as well.
Cullman-not present.
Elmore-getting ready for the trail shoot, changes have been made on the course for this.
Etowah-not present.
Heritage-doing great and had first shoot on the weekend of ASA Texas. Turnout was good. Also hosted S3DA shoot and started a new chapter. Heritage also bought new cores and are getting ready for Bow-up.
Jackson-not present.
Lee- not present.
Marshall-doing good, had good turnout on both shoots.
Monroe-doing good, had a successful S3DA shoot.
Morgan-not present.
North Jefferson- doing good, cancelled 1st shoot and having the next shoot today. Hopefully todays shoot is going well.
Panhandle-doing good, bought new targets and started an S3DA chapter. This year is going better than last.
Russell- doing good, had a good tournament even with rain. They have already had five shoots this year and have three more to go.
Shelby-good first shoot, did really good and now getting ready for their tri-qualifier coming up.
St. Clair-they have no shoots this year but are going to assist with other chapters to help them with theirs. Still are active chapter just taking a break this year.
Talladega-not present, but are doing good. They had to change their location and the new one seems to work better for them. Had a total of 49 shooters at their location.
Tuscaloosa- doing good financially, going to upgrade on their off season. They have two new members join.
West End- not present.
Tournament Director Report:
BHA side-going good, haven’t had no blow-ups yet so going good.
ASA side- going good, qualifier shoots are getting overwhelmed with to many at one time, so working on getting adjusted to that. Everyone needs to make sure they charge the fees on all classes.
Merchandise Report- bought new shirts, sold some already and will be at the events from here on out. Also have BHA stickers which are decals that will go out with membership cards.
Web/Social Media Report- Website was hacked a few weeks ago and now is back up and running. Have a few days that are gone but backed up the system and now have a new security on it. Also working on the new website and have that about 65% completed. Looking also at setting up login differently so that new members don’t have to go through Bryan to create the login. Hope to have a presentation for the new site at the August board meeting.
Editorial- writing second letter now, need to know anyone that has harvested last year. Also going to write about CWD and explain what it is. If anyone has any pictures send them in. Deadline will be two weeks from now.
UDCP-Jamey Adams is now in the appointed position and he said he is waiting on state to make a few changes, but all is going well. Also had a visitor named Justin Grider that hopes we can help promote NASP to the areas. James H, will put on the website to try and organize a educational field day from BHA.
Political- the board meets next week.
Awards- Amanda presented the new buckles she had designed and Charmen motioned to accept, Amanda 2nd. All buckles will be paid by BHA and then the chapters are responsible to pay BHA, Zone directors will let their Chapters know the amount. If not paid by August, your Chapter will lose all shoots and voting rights.
Master Bowhunter-Larry will try to get information from Riley about this.
Bow-up Report-BHA will go in half with food, also will provide all targets and cores. Motion to accept-Charmen, Amanda 2nd.
Sponsorship Report- we have two already, Nichols signed up for Gold and Grabows signed for Silver. Have others that Chris is talking to. Hope to have more signed up. The website is also taking off all companies that are not sponsoring BHA at this time.
Bowhunters of the year were voted on and will be presented at the August Banquet.
Bowmania- will be purchasing a backwall or net to update for Bowmania this year. The general board presented that we should purchase a net if we can get one for less than $4,000.00. Motion to accept. Charmen M 1st and Jamey A 2nd.
New Chapters to vote on:
Gulf Coast Archery: The board agreed to let them keep their name for business purposes but have to include Baldwin County. Billy motioned to accept and Chris 2nd. All in favor. Yes.
Coffee County is next Chapter, which is also Wiregrass Outdoors. Motion to accept, Bryan 1st, George 2nd. All in favor, Yes.
Motion to Adjourn, Jamey 1st, Bryan 2nd, All in Favor, Yes.
Sign in sheet:
Charmen McAlpine-Heritage
Chester Suttle-Autauga Life# 49
Sam Riley-Shelby
Justin Grider
Bobby Ingram-North Jefferson Life#111
Chris Mann-Alex City
Bryan Gilbert-Barbour Life#145
Wayne Wilson-Tuscaloosa
Don Green-Tuscaloosa
Audrey Skula-Autauga Life#61
George Shunaway-Autauga Life#10
David Owens-Coffee County
Ray Metzler-Autauga Life#10
Danny Bryan-Russell
April Bryan-Russell
Amanda Adams-Shelby
Jamey Adams-Shelby
Larry McAfee- Life#32
Danny Stokes-Covington Life#77
Ed Bancroft-Elmore
Fred Minyard-Heritage Life#80
Jody Moore-Gulf Coast Archery
Freeda Moore-Gulf Coast Archery
James Hornbuckle- North Jefferson
Chris Vainrib-St.Clair
Walt Pittman-Barbour Life#155
William Chapman-Calhoun Life#146
Sabrina Chapman-Calhoun