Committee Reports
Georgia Dressage and Combined Training Association Regular Meeting
Membership Report – (Mary Lou) Same number as we were at June two years ago. Looking good. No red!
June 21, 2021
Communication – (Joanne) June sent in email of the report. They are working on the cover of the yearbook. Deadline for next month's newsletter is July 25. Wild Apricot was not taking payments. Personally contacting people who had payment issues. If anybody has questions, have them go ahead and register and then call Caren to pay. The company is working on getting it working again.
President Caren Caverly called the regular meeting of the GDCTA to order on June 21, 2021, at 7:05 pm on Zoom. Secretary, Ashley Boyd, performed a roll call. A quorum of the board consisting of Caren Caverly, Abigail Kroupa, Joanne Morse, Ashley Boyd, Carol Tresan, Peter West, Liz Molloy, Heather Askew, Janie Pride, Julie Shannon, Jen Scherrens, and Danielle Perry were present. Guest Hannah Rickles. The minutes of the regular meeting for April 19, 2021, were emailed to board members prior to the meeting. Janie made a motion to approve the minutes. Julie seconded. Motion passed.
Show Committee – (Julie) Schooling show in April and Greater Atlanta show reports. No questions regarding those. The next show is the Summer Finals schooling show at Wills Park in August. Finance – (Peter) Nothing new to report.
Treasurer’s Report – (Peter) April and May - both
Youth Program – (Joanne) Youth did not have a call this month. Joanna did a raffle at the last show she attended to help them raise money. Their raffle they had planned did not happen. Not sure why. Working on communication to get the meeting link sent out in a timely manner. Working on communication procedures so that people get them. They are still working on clinic and have a location. The prize list for Dressage4Kids is coming out soon.
months were profitable. Ann Gribbons showed a slight loss.
VP Dressage Report – (Abigail) No Report VP Combined Training – (Joanne) Done a lot toward
clinics. Talked to Oliver Townend’s people. He can only do clinics in the month of November. Already booked for 2021 and 2022 so shooting for 2023. Had a talk with Michael Pollard. He is working on Betina Hoy and Michael Jung. Reached out to Land Safe and working on clinic with them for next year. Kim Severson clinic Sept 11 and 12 is continuing to be worked on. Working on credit card issues so that everybody can sign up and pay. Working on figuring out how to have people be able to sign up for more than one horse. Budget for jumper rounds at Jennifer Scherrens. Sunny Stevens will be the trainer for the jumper round. She has offered to do a show jumping round in the same way you would do a ride a test.
Awards/Grants – (Janie) We have received 4 wonderful applications for training grants. The committee wondered if we can award two Adult Amateur grants or if we can ask one person if they would change to Open Grant? We will wait to see who else sends in grant applications because the deadline has not hit yet. The board meeting will be after the deadline. Education – (Julie) The Anne Gribbons clinic lost $500 but it was a last-minute clinic. Everybody loved the clinic. This weekend is JJ Tate and is full with 10 riders. Laura Graves is in July, all of the names have been picked for that clinic. The Jeremy Steinberg clinic is also full with a wait list. One groom can audit the participants' rides but will have to pay to audit other rides. Owners also need to pay an audit fee for the weekend.
Kim Severson budget: motion by Carol and seconded by Heather. No questions. Motion by Janie to accept it. Jen seconded. The board voted for approval. Jump-A-Round budget: Julie made motion to accept, Jen seconded. No questions. Julie motioned to accept and Carol seconded. Board passed the budget.
Nominating Committee – Hannah Rickles is on with us to audit and see if she would like to run. Need final slate of nominees by September.
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