Present: Terry Rose, Lynn Beebe,
Cindy Cross-Greenia, Brenda Lasell, Morris Lasell, Karen Blow, Ilene
Douglas, Martha Benoit, Mike Benoit, Jerri Williams, David Delano, Carl
Russell, Peg Deane, Cyndie Lyon-Hill, Beverly McMullin
Meeting called to order at 10:25 am by Terry Rose, President
Secretary’s Report:
Read and accepted Terry motion, Karen
second, all approved
Treasurer’s Report, Lynn Dow:
Available Upon Request
Motion to accept Cindy, second Bev, all in favor
American Horse Council, Betsy Greene
No one here to represent or report submitted.
Membership, Terry Rose
We currently have 274 members, 87 have not
renewed their dues for 2007, 74 hold NEKET passes.
Discussed advertising
Safety, Lynn Dow
Lynn will not be continuing with the safety
committee.
NEKET, Martha Benoit
May 19th is a
NEKET workday,
They have had positive
feedback on the idea of adding two new trails.
There will be a ride on
September 8th it will cost $15.00 per person.
Large Animal Technical Rescue , Cindy Cross-Greenia
Cindy recently completed a three day training to
certify in DART (Disaster Animal Response Teams). These teams are being
built into state emergency response plans and can be a situation such as
a flood where animals need to be evacuated and sheltered to a horse barn
fire where shelter needs to be set up until the horses can find more
permanent stables.
This course as well as the recently publicized
incident of a horse going through the ice in Rutland has made Cindy
realize the need for immediate training in horse handling and large
animal technical rescue techniques. Cindy has developed a two day
training which will be offered to firefighters, veterinarians and DART
team members and will be presented by Cindy and a Large Animal Tech
Rescue Trainer from Massachusetts.
Website, Cindy Cross-Greenia
Cindy has been compiling information from the
committees and collecting photos. All of the information will be sent
to Equinesite on a CD this week and should be fully operational in mid
April.
Farm Show, Morris Lasell
We were able to secure a
dozen prizes for the raffle and $328.00 was raised for the scholarship
fund.
Farm Bureau, Bev McMullen
The Farm Bureau will have
a booth at Everything Equine. They are considering switching insurance
companies from Farm Family to Nationwide.
Trail Maintenance Fund, Morris Lasell
VHC gave a grant to Dog
River Horse Club to repair a mud hole in Chelsea. The local snowmobile
club also helped with the cost and the project has been completed.
Old Business
Everything Equine, Terry is lining up the booth and volunteers. The
Horsin Around show is in order.
Nomination Committee, Morris Lasell
Morris explained that the
nominating committees job is to find those that are willing to serve as
officers and present the nomination slate, however they would be glad to
have nominations from the floor.
Nominating Committee
slate of officers is:
President: Cindy Cross-Greenia
Vice President: Sue
Mitchell
Treasurer
Terry Rose
Secretary: Bev McMullen
No
nominations received from the floor, motion to cease nominations,
secretary cast one vote for each position, all in favor.
Horse Person Of the Year, Terry Rose
Terry presented Karen
Blow with the 2007 Vermont Horse Council Horse Person of the Year.
Karen received many nominations for her work on the Annual Tunbridge
Ride and the Dog River Horse Club. A beautiful letter discussing
Karen’s childhood to maturity with horses that was written by Brenda
Lasell was read by Terry and Cindy. Congratulation Karen!!
Next meeting to be announced.
Meeting adjourned at 12:10 pm by
Terry Rose
