Minutes from 8/31/2022 Call-in PNWBA Board of Directors Meeting

Prepared by: Steve Rubin, PNWBA Board Secretary

Roll Call:

Jane Biehl – President – Present

Pat Maddock - Vice President – Present

Lance Rasmussen – Treasurer – Present

Steve Rubin - Secretary – Present

Doug Canada - Board Member – Present  

Melba Fujiara - Board Member – Present

Dale Groestema - Board Member – Excused

Jason Hertz – Board Member – Present

Chris Kelly – Board Member – Present

Joshua Mason - Board Member Present

JD McGee - Board Member – Present

Bill Stock - Board Member  - Present

Karen Stral – Board Member – Present  

Steve Waldron – Board Member – Present

13 of 14 members present for a quorum.

The President called the meeting to order at 6:35 pm.

Approve minutes - Steve

Motion to approve the minutes from the July 2022 meeting was approved.  Steve will post the minutes to the forum for the membership.

Treasurer's Report – Lance

Lance presented the Treasurers Reports for June 2022. After discussion, the board approved the report..

Committee Reports

Event Committee – Bill

Hermiston, OR  Combined KCBS / PNWBA continues planning.  Organizer will be posting judge and team signups. 9/8-9/2022.

Sun Oct 2, Judge class in Portland at Woodstock Deli.  Karen is updating the training deck  Price has gone up a bit since last time and we’re having a maximum of 25-30 students.  Registration closes on 9/26.

Benton City Daze. 
Sanctioning agreement received after the last meeting and approved via an email vote of the board.  Information is posted on the PNWBA website.

Camp Corey – Planning continues.  Registrations for Teams and Judges Open.

New business

The board had a discussion about having standardizing processes for announcing, opening, and conducting event registration.  This would begin with a working group of Board members to draft a proposed procedure to be evaluated/modified/adopted as policy by the Board. The board approved a motion to establish this working group

Clearwater: Pat suggested that board members solicit sponsors for our annual meeting and competition.  He has also been communicating with The Clearwater and they have committed to signing a sanctioning agreement for our comp in November with $15,000 of support.  Teams will also be able to sell off samples if desired on Sat afternoon.  The Clearwater is also considering a possible sanctioned summer event next year.  Similar Veteran’s Day arrangements as last year’s event.  Pat asked board and teams to get in touch with your sponsors or those interested to increase prize purse.

Doug recommended that we engage in some 1-day with 1 or 2 protein competitions for areas that don’t have PNWBA comps.  Look for new territory, and perhaps team up with a local market. Get people from new areas exposed to the PNWBA and expose PNWBA to new areas. Committee urged to continue working on details regarding locations, scheduling and funds needed and bring those back at a later date.

Motion for Clearwater event to use last year’s rules and go back 2 years for Canadian teams for the PNWBA Championship was passed.

The next board meeting will be phone-in meeting on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 6:30 pm.

Motion to adjourn the meeting was approved at 7:47 PM.