Board of Directors Meeting
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| Members present: |
Danita Francis |
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Members absent: |
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| Staff present: |
Jerry Hemry Jan Loftis Clayton Taylor |
| Guests present: |
Glenda Mittasch Owen L. Harper John Row Barry Schmulbach Patrick Malone |
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Welcome: Danita welcomed the members and guests, and the meeting was called to order at 1:30 pm. |
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Motion: Approve minutes as presented Made by: Ken McDowell Second by: Tracy Row Discussion: None Vote: Passed |
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Past President's Report: —Tracy suggested having a member of OAR speak to our board/membership regarding the changes to the Real Estate Contract at one of our future meetings. Vice President's Report: —Reservations are still coming in for summer meeting. Catherine reported on activities planned for the meeting. —We're still working to get approval from the Insurance Department for continuing education at the summer meeting, but have received approval from OBA. —Catherine discussed issues that have occurred recently with regard to approval of CE course submissions. The issues include Ethics offerings and branding. Catherine and Randy will schedule a meeting for next Monday with Katie Johnson at the Oklahoma Insurance Department. —Fall & Spring CE will include 4 hours of Basic Escrow & Closing and three hours of other topics. —Catherine recommended having an open forum for questions/answers during the General Session following the board meeting at Summer Meeting. —Catherine, Randy and John will meet following today's meeting to discuss plans for next year's summer meeting. *—Dates are set for regional meetings and will be held as follows: Sept. 18th—Bartlesville, 19th—Enid, 20th—Clinton, 21st—Durant, 25th—Guthrie. —Catherine, Danita and Mary Ann will be doing member visits starting in July but will also do them on their travels during the week of the regional meetings. —Catherine suggested having a legislative training session covering several topics led by Clayton and Mark Bilbrey. The training session would be for the OLTA Board, OLTA Research Committee and OLTA Legislative Committee. We are looking at scheduling the training on October 19th in conjunction with the board meeting. It was discussed that an abbreviated session for the membership should be presented in the Owners/Managers meeting. —Catherine and the OLTA office are still looking at the possibility of having the Owners/Managers Meeting and Legislative Reception at the Oklahoma History Center. Treasurer's Report: The Treasurer's report was presented. |
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Motion: Approve report as presented Made by: Tracy Row Second by: Randy Dittmann Discussion: None Vote: Passed —The Proposed budget for 2006-2007 was presented. Motion: Approve the proposed budget for 2006-2007. Made by: Todd Humphrey Second by: Lisa Sparks Discussion: There was a discussion on officer expenses and how they should be categorized. The budget was amended. Vote: Passed |
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General Counsel's Report: None Executive Director's Report: → Jan is hosting a fundraiser in her home June 28th for Jari Askins, and July 11th Kim Holland. |
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Committee Reports: → Education — see Vice-President's report above → Public Relations/Membership — The committee will meet to discuss the possibility of hiring a public relations firm. → Legislative —Clayton reported on the passing of HB3009. He's working on the end-of-session report. There could be more bills to deal with in the future; however, our association has taken many positive steps toward correcting the issues at hand. —TiPAC has been very important in helping our association during the process of getting HB3009 passed. —He presented the recommendations for political contributions from Okie TiPAC. —He recommended the association naming a contact person for press releases and public relations or possibly hiring a firm on a part-time basis. → Research — Bryan asked Danita to ask the board for direction on where the research committee needs to focus their efforts on next. The board agreed the research committee needs to move forward with scheduling meetings and prepare a memorandum with bullet points to keep the membership informed on legislative issues. President's Report: —The vote on the amended by—laws will be voted on at the Owners/Managers meeting. —Bryan Thomason attended the Texas convention in Lake Tahoe. —The Jeff McMahan golf tournament is next week. —Gary asked Danita to mention that he has set a goal of raising $20,000 for the PAC by July 15th. |
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Old Business: Catherine is creating an e-mail contact list for the membership. She included several ideas for utilizing the e-mail lists in getting information out to the membership to replace our previous mailings. New Business: None Adjournment: Meeting adjourned at 4:44 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Laura Dishman, OLTA Secretary *Minutes corrected to reflect a change in the dates and locations for the regional meetings. |
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