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March 2023 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes                                                       March 9, 2023   Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Patrick   Old Business   Bylaws changes Excom has agreed to all changes. Action item: Tiffany to send to management committee for approval. 2023 President-elect election Election will run in the month of March Action item: Kayla... Read More

February 2023 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes                                                       February 14, 2023   Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Paul, Chelsea, Patrick   Old Business   Bylaws changes Secretary/treasurer split- Action item: Kayla will send draft to ExCom to review, and Tiffany will include in updates. 2023 President-elect election We received two highly qualified candidates Election... Read More

January 2023 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes                                                       January 12, 2023   Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Paul, Chelsea, Patrick   Old Business   Bylaws changes Conflict of Interest statement “The Center for Fisheries Technology shall be maintained by a committee of members from the Section (hereafter, Committee). All members are eligible to serve... Read More

October 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes October 17, 2022 Attendees: Tiffany, Kayla, Paul, Patrick, and Chelsea Old Business AFS Spokane Bylaws changes Conflict of Interest statement in by-laws (Rebecca had volunteered to draft proposed language) Bylaws change to remove requirement for 2 candidates for each election Add language that says two... Read More

August 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes August 15, 2022 Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Paul, Patrick Old Business AFS Spokane Symposium updates Full day of speakers for the “MacGyvering” symposium Scheduled for Monday Aug 21st in 302A –starting at 8am! Patrick will give intro and moderate first block of talks Tiffany will moderate... Read More

June 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes                                                       June 9, 2022 Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Patrick Old Business Membership Dues (Kayla) No updates Changes to bank account (Kayla) No updates Potential section rebranding (Tiffany) Survey was sent out via membership listserv in May and was shared on FITS facebook page. Only 15 responses.... Read More

May 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes                     May 12, 2022  Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Patrick, Chelsea, Paul Old Business Mail poet: Impact of the list cleanup actions (Chelsea) No updates Manually editing and updating members Current subscribers 962 Membership Dues (Kayla) Membership dues... Read More

April 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes                      April 21, 2022 Attendees: Kayla, Tiffany, Patrick, Paul Old Business Mail poet: Impact of the list cleanup actions (Chelsea) Update next meeting  Potential section rebranding (Tiffany) Changes to bank account. (Kayla) Narrowed down to 4... Read More

March 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes                                                       March 14, 2022 Attendees: Tiffany, Paul, Patrick, Kayla Old Business Mail poet: Impact of the list cleanup actions (Chelsea) Table until next meeting  Potential section rebranding (Tiffany) Required steps – membership involvement to identify new name, bylaws change, membership approval to bylaws and then... Read More

February 2022 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes

AFS Fisheries Information and Technology Section Executive Committee Meeting Minutes February 18, 2022 Present: Chelsea Myles-McBurney, Paul Venturelli, Tiffany Hopper Old Business Mail poet: Impact of the list cleanup actions Chelsea sent email for “are you still interested in” Need to investigate why messages are going into spam Chelsea ran spam test Results: 6.7/10 Revisit... Read More