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It’s time to elect members to serve on the Board of Directors. In 1990, the President appointed a committee of five members to work out details of how the six directors of HOAGBA would be chosen. The decision was made to elect directors on the basis of membership. Kansas got two directors because of the many members residing in Kansas, Missouri was allowed one director, one director would represent members living in Iowa and states east of the Mississippi, one director would represent members living in states west of the Mississippi, excluding Kansas and Missouri, and one director would represent members living in Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, and other southern states. This representation was amended 9/14/2018 to read: “The positions of Director from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and other southern States and Director from Colorado and states west of the Mississippi, excluding directors from Kansas, Missouri and states east of the Mississippi River, would be eliminated and would be replaced by 2 (two) Directors-at-Large. All Directors are to be elected by the membership at a regular election. If a vacancy occurs, the position will be filled by the Board of Directors.” John Smith and Cody McCormick currently represent Kansas on the Board of Directors, Missouri is represented by Myrna Tuley who is not seek re-election, Dennis Connolly represents Iowa. Cindy Hoffman and Roger Graham were elected as the two directors at large. Myrna will be missed. She has served on the Board since 2004. She saw to it that the volunteers at the Friday check-in at the auction were fed and she promoted HOAGBA membership at every bird swap she attended. Thank you for your dedicated service. If you are interested in serving on the board and assuming an auction responsibility, call or email Terry for an application. A ballot will be printed in the July-August NL. The election of Directors will be conducted by mail. Returned ballots will be counted by the  members of the Executive Committee, and the results will be printed in the newsletter. 

The stars were in alignment for the spring auction. The weather was super nice both Friday and Saturday, maybe a little too warm in the afternoon, but it was better than adding layers of clothing and trying to stay out of the wind. There were plenty of good birds which attracted buyers from ten states and Mexico. When I explained to the man that the bid was times the birds in the box, I spoke to his phone which translated every thing I said. That was a first in the 40 years that I have done the auction! There was plenty of help to get the consignments tagged and placed in line so things ran rather well until we reached the end of the area where we line up the birds. Then it was decision time, where do we go next. I suggested putting up a sign that read “NO ROOM IN THE BARN”, but   that didn’t go over very well since some of the better birds were in the latter part of the auction. We ended up with 1357 lots in the main arena. On Sunday I recounted the deposits read for John to take to the bank Monday morning. I had to make sure that $30,000 in $100.00 bills was not counterfeit by marking each bill with a counterfeit pen and double checking it by holding it up to the light. After the deposits were completed, I started entering buyer information, their consignment lot #’s and their payment information into an Excell spreadsheet. The total auction income was $117.235.07. The total paid consignors was $100,288.99. The total expenses to host the auction were $9,190.95. The auction profit was $7,756.03.  This profit looks great, but remember it costs as much to sponser the fall auction and the club usually has a very small profit and several years we have lost money.

I cannot begin to thank everyone who helped with this auction. We had one of the best consignment check-in crews ever, lots of members who have helped in the past, but some new people too. The office crew did a great job of keeping the pay-out line moving. Several of our office regulars had prior engagements, but Natalie Wilkerson Smith turned over her gate job to Cory Carlson and she and Joan Gomez help the office out.

Ted Golka got Morning Glory 4-H to be in charge of consignment control (moving the boxes to and from the ring, getting them sorted by buyer’s numbers, and checking them out) did a fantastic job. Thanks to all the club members who assisted in that area when needed.