American Local History Network						
                                      Board Minutes
                                      August 7,2000


Present at the meeting

Board members:
Kathy Leigh,President
Norm Vance, Vice President
Barb Lavin, Secretary/Webmaster
Lesley Moss
Annette Peebles
Debi Kendrick

Guests:
Carole Hammette
Debbie Axtman
Fred Kunchick
Nate Zipfel
Jim Houpe

meeting called to order 8:11p EST. 
Board members present were asked to say they were present
Debi Kendrick came in late due to mIRC problems
Director Eveline Crocker was excused due to illness

Kathy Leigh welcomed our new board members Annette Peebles and Debi Kendrick



Minutes from Board meeting July 12, 2000 approved unanimously by the board
By-laws committee report - no member or director objected to the by-laws committee
being an open committee with voting members being able to subscribe to the by-laws
list.

Old Business:
Carried over from the July 12th meeting the annul meeting was discussed

Barb Lavin moved to hold the annual meeting on Jan 10, 2001.  At which time
the board would inform the members of the state of ALHN from Jan 12, 2000
to Jan 10, 2001.  Also new directors would be voted on by this date.
Seconded by Lesley Moss

votes:
Lesley Moss - aye
Debi Kendrick - aye
Annette Peebles - aye
Norm Vance - aye
Barb Lavin - aye
Kathy Leigh - aye 

vote passed unanimously - First annual meeting will be held on Jan 10,2001

New Business:

The board log and minutes
Discussion on whether to post the mIRC log and the minutes or just one

Norm Vance moved from Aug 7,2000 all mIRC logs be posted
Debi Kendrick seconded the motion

votes:
Lesley Moss - aye
Norm Vance - aye
Annette Peebles - aye
Debi Kendrick - aye
Barb Lavin - aye
Kathy Moss - aye

vote passed unanimously - all board meeting logs will be posted

Barb Lavin moved to discuss a board list for meetings till next meeting
Annette Peebles seconded

votes:
Debi Kendrick - aye
Annette Peebles - aye
Barb Lavin - aye
Norm Vance  -nay - President Kathy Leigh asked for further clarification
Director Norm Vance clarified and changed his vote to aye

Vote passed unanimously discussion tabled till next meeting

Discussion then began concerning the National postions of:
Web Ring Master, States Webmaster and Topics Webmaster. As well as
the maintaining of the ALHN lists.


Norm Vance moved discussion of the "unofficial" ALHN mailing lists to be moved to the by-laws
list and have a report by next meeting
Lesley Moss seconded 

votes:
Norm Vance - aye
Lesley Moss - aye
Debi Kendrick - aye
Annette Peebles - aye
Barb Lavin - aye

there was a discussion which lists Director Norm Vance were referring to

Barb Lavin reaffirmed her aye
Lesley Moss reaffirmed her aye
Norm Vance reaffirmed his aye
Debi Kendrick reaffirmed her aye
Annette Peebles reaffirmed her aye

vote passed unanimously - discussion moved to the by-laws list


Norm Vance moved to have a membership nominations and votes for State and Topics webmaster as 
well as have seperate accounts set up for them
Lesley Moss seconded 

votes:
Lesley Moss - aye
Norm Vance - aye
Barb Lavin- abstain
Debi Kendrick - aye
Annette Peebles - aye
Kathy Leigh - abstain

vote passed with 4 ayes and 2 abstains

Barb Lavin made a motion the Webmaster votes be tabled to next meeting - vote failed
due to lack of a second

Norm Vance moved the Web ring Master be a member elected postion
Lesley Moss seconded

votes:
Norm Vance - aye
Lesley Moss - aye
Barb Lavin - aye
Debi Kendrick - aye
Annette Peebles - aye

vote passed with 5 ayes

Norm Vance moved to open nominations and vote, by membership for the postion of webring master
Lesley Moss seconded 

votes:
Lesley Moss - aye
Norm Vance - aye
Annette Peebles - aye
Debi Kendrick - aye
Barb Lavin - aye

vote passed with 5 ayes

Discussion of the new registerd agent of ALHN be Kristina Martin of Priest River, ID
Norm Vance moved she be approved by the ALHN board
Lesley Moss seconded

vote not needed

Barb Lavin informed the board of the status if the clickable map and the World Nic password.

Lesley Moss moved to adjourn
Barb Lavin seconded

meeting adjourned at 10:29p EST
which time the directors went into Executive Session


s/Barb Lavin
Secretary