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NEWS
Newsletter
ACTWS News Issue 1, Jan 2008
ACTWS Approves Resolution Supporting Increased Alabama Hunting and Fishing License Fees
ACTWS members approved the Resolution Supporting Increased Alabama Hunting and Fishing License Fees February 2007. For more information on the need for a license increase, read the article published in the February 2007 issue of Outdoor Alabama.
Alabama Chapter of The Wildlife Society (ACTWS)
Board Meeting Minutes
Location: Montgomery
Date: 1/24/2007
Board Members Present:
Dagmar Thurmond, Mark Bailey, Allison Cochran, Dr. Barry Grand, Ray Metzler and Marisa Lee-Sasser
The meeting was called to order by Dagmar Thurmond and the following topics were discussed:
- We received a thank-you letter from TWS for our $500 contribution for their IT and WEB based operations upgrades. The upgrades were to allow TWS to communicate better with their members. If you have not visited the TWS website, check them out at http://www.wildlife.org/
- Also discussed were several updates needed on the ACTWS website and the need to get information posted in a timely manner. If you have expertise in this area and would like to volunteer to help, contact Dagmar Thurmond. We welcome any suggestions you have on what you would find helpful on the website.
- The ACTWS by-laws are in need of review and revision. Anyone that would be willing to volunteer their time to revise the current by-laws please contact Dagmar Thurmond.
- The need for a newsletter (to be emailed to members and posted on the Chapter website) to help keep the chapter members better informed of current wildlife issues throughout the state was discussed. Volunteers interested in editing a bi-annual newsletter are asked to contact Dagmar Thurmond at dthurmond@fs.fed.us
- The annual meeting will be held May 8-9th in Andalusia, AL. Please mark you’re your calendars. Information on the annual meeting will be sent out in early February. If you can not make the meeting this year, don’t forget to send me your dues (still only $5 - what a deal!) before May 1st. Make checks payable to ACTWS. You can mail them to Marisa K. Lee-Sasser at:
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries
64 North Union Street, suite 584
Montgomery, AL 36130
- The need for a position statement on a state license increase was discussed. Dagmar agreed to draft a resolution to be sent to the executive board for approval and the membership for a vote in February.
- The following positions are up for election at the May meeting:
- Secretary/Treasurer
- Southeastern Section Representative
- Executive Board Members (2)
In order to run you must be a member in good standing in both the state and parent chapters of TWS. If you are interested in running for any of the above positions, or would like to nominate anyone, please notify Ashley Rossi Lovell at Ashley.R.Lovell@aphis.usda.gov or Jim Armstrong at jarmstro@acesag.auburn.edu by March 1st, 2007.
Duties are described below:
Secretary/Treasurer - Serves as the Chairman of the membership committee, is responsible for the files, records, and funds of the Chapter, and submits complete financial reports through the last meeting of his term of office. Duties also include the receipt and disbursement of funds, the recording of the minutes of all meetings, the maintenance of the membership rolls, correspondence, and the issuance of meeting notices.
Southeastern Section Representative - Represents the Alabama chapter in Southeastern Section affairs. This person shall represent and serve as liaison toe the Section for the chapter. He will provide the editor of the Section Newsletter with news and items of interest from his state and serve as a contact between the Section and the Chapters and members in their respective states. He will assist the Section President by verifying mailing addresses, conduction membership drives, polling individual members, and assisting in the routine Section business.
Executive Board Members - act as the governing body for the chapter along with the President, Past President, President-elect, Chapter Representative and Secretary/treasure.
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