Louisiana Archaeological Society
Kisatchie National forest
Supervisors Office
Pineville, Louisiana
Saturday, August 4, 2007
Attendees:
The meeting was called to order at 12:09 p.m. by VP George Risor.
Minutes: George Risor made a motion, seconded by Velicia Bergstrom to accept the Executive Board Meeting minutes from May 19, 2006. The motion passed unanimously.
President: Ellen Ibert was not able to attend. On her behalf, Velicia Bergstrom reported that had an inventory of the VHS tapes of the past speakers had been completed.
Vice President: George Risor discussed the origination of the annual meeting. The meeting dates have been set for February 8th – 10th at the Marriot Lakeview. Nathaniel Heller is the program chairperson. George Risor discussed the possibility of speakers including the possibility of Richard Gould at Brown University. He is currently researching disaster archaeology. The committee will meet in September.
Sam Brooks has discussed holding a joint Louisiana and Mississippi meeting held in Greenville, Mississippi. He is forwarding along an email to the organizer in MS. Sam has indicated that he would be the keynote speaker.
Secretary: Rachel Watson asked for an explanation of the duties involved with the position. Duties of the Secretary include: taking and distributing the minutes of the LAS executive meeting, sending out the meeting agenda for LAS executive meeting, and filing the incorporation fee.
Treasure & Membership: Josetta LeBoeuf sent out post card reminders to the members from 2003-2005 at a cost of $.26 per card. Thirty people responded to the reminder with a membership renewal. The returned post cards will help to remove invalid addresses. Furthermore, she was able to update some members address info.
Account Balance: $ 8,965.32. R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates is printing the newsletter free. There were no major expenses this period. LAS is moving to an online banking system and we will have to change passwords once George Risor becomes President.
Current membership is at 225. The new NW chapter has 16 paid members and 37 potential members. Jason Emery became a lifetime member.
Website: The website is averaging 147 hits. Junior Doughty discussed the possibility of moving the website from our current host in Boca Raton, FL to a new host in Santa Barbara, CA. The Santa Barbara host will increase our band width 80 times what it is currently. We would need to transfer everything from FL to CA and then shut the FL site down. This will cost $50 less a year. There could be a possible web outage and the change needs to be done this fall.
Chip McGimsey made a motion to approve. Velicia seconds. Unanimously passed.
Bulletin: Chip McGimsey will remain as bulletin editor.
Newsletter: Dennis Jones was unable to attend.
Northeast Chapter: Reca Jones reported that the chapter is meeting on the second Sunday of each month. They have combined their meeting with a local genealogy group.
Central Louisiana Chapter: Velicia Bergstrom had nothing to report.
Delta Chapter: George Risor reported that Lucretia McBride would help with the meeting.
Baton Rouge Chapter: Meets last Wednesday of every month.
Southwest Chapter: Scott Wehner reported that there are currently 16 members. They are planning to have a joint meeting with the southwest Texas group. It was also suggested that they contact Charlie Bollock.
Northwest Chapter: Jameel Damlouji reported that this reactivated chapter has 32 active members and 24 potential new members. They meet on the third Wednesday of every month in Shreveport. David Jeane has already given a presentation to the group. Further activities include; bead sorting & cataloguing with Nita Colen LA State Museum, and excavations and survey at Mound Plantation and the surrounding area.
There was a discussion of grant sources relating to the proposed archiving of the old LAS annual meeting VHS tapes. Possible grant sources Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities or a Louisiana Archaeological Conservancy Grant. The committee agreed that LEH Grant would be inappropriate for this project and Ann was advised not to pursue it
There was also a discussion of how much it would cost to contract out the media transfer. Ellen, from a previous meeting, had an estimate of $3000.00. During this discussion Scott Wehner mentioned that he had the equipment to do this himself.
Chip McGimsey suggested that we see the quality of work Scott Wehner can produce before we make a decision about putting this out on contract. Josetta second. Unanimously passed.
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Date for the next Executive meeting was set November 10, 2007 at 12:00 pm.
Velicia Bergstrom made a motioned to adjourn and Chip McGimsey seconds with a unanimous passing.