ISTA BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING ON APRIL 5, 2025
ROLL CALL
Southern Zone: Dennis Baker, Lauren Dunn, John Kravanek, Frank Payne
Central Zone: Steve Carver-ex, Mike Dennis, Bill Maiden, Kevin Wunder
Northern Zone: Charlie Bickle, Patrick Haskins, Bill Huhn, Stan Systo
Others: Joan Maiden, ISTA Secretary, Bill Duncan, ATA Delegate, Michelle Mueller
SECRETARY’S REPORT: Pat Haskins motioned to waive the reading of the minutes & accept the minutes as presented by email from the Secretary; seconded Kevin Wunder. Motion carried.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Mike Dennis gave the Treasurer’s report. Mike reported he checked with the ISTA attorney to ask if it would a problem for ISTA to donate to the HOF, if they wanted to in the future, and the attorney confirmed it would be fine, however, the HOF cannot donate to ISTA. Pat Haskins made a motion to accept the Treasurer’s Report; Charlie Bickle seconded the motion. Motion carried.
OLD BUSINESS
HOF Update: The cabinets have been received. The bricks are laid temporarily in front of the HOF, which will have decorative rock on each side of it. There are several blank bricks that can be replaced if more are purchased. Dennis Baker paid bills totaling $6,170 but there is only around $5,000 in the HOF checking account, which comes up a little short. Joan suggested doing a 50/50 raffle during the state shoot with the proceeds going to the HOF account. Bill Duncan said he would get the license from the County & Joan will donate the tickets for the drawings. The tickets will be 1 for $5.00 or 5 for $20.00. Bill Maiden motioned to have 50/50 daily from Wednesday through Saturday; Dennis Baker seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Bill Huhn reported he has invoices totaling around $1600 from the picture frames and resizing the photos. He completed 75 of the 100 pictures of HOF members and will have the other completed soon for placement in the HOF. A plaque was also made for the 50-year attendance award with the names engraved. There is also a Lifetime membership plaque that is not up to date, but it will be moved too. The placement of the pictures will cover the entire south side and a few on the west wall. Bill Duncan reported he talked to Tony DeAngelis after February’s meeting to let him know what was decided about cabinets, but he said he wanted to make something & donate it to the HOF. Bill believes he will be at the state shoot & will look at what is needed. Pat Haskins asked the board if they would want runner rugs with the ISTA HOF logo on them and he would donate them. The board agreed to that.
NEW BUSINESS
State Shoot Assignments: The board discussed having everyone help with shoot-offs instead of being the same few. They agreed to all meet in the ISTA building before the shoot-offs begin. Michelle reported she & Mike talked about her pre-squadding the Directors to spread them out through out each event so there is always coverage for Classifications in the ISTA Building. All Directors gave Michelle their preference of squads.
Letter from John Bull’s Estate Attorney: ISTA received a letter from John Bull’s estate attorney reporting he left $10,000 to ISTA for a fund in his wife’s name, however, the letter indicated after the estate paid all outstanding debts, there was no money left to pay out. Someone asked if we should have a shoot a shoot in his memory & Mike said the Memorial Shoot this year was going to be the IL Memorial Handicap and he would like everyone to put together a list of all the people who have passed away in the last two or three years and then have their names read before the Memorial Handicap.
Edgewood Gun Club: Edgewood Gun Club is the name of the club previously called Raging Bullet. One of the guys who is helping get it started called Joan regarding getting things set up to throw registered shoots. Raging Bullet has not thrown targets in at least two years so they will contact Bill Duncan with questions about approval, etc.
Program Draft: Joan reported she was to receive a draft in the next day or two and we are still on track to have them mailed out by April 15th.
Complimentary Meal: The meal will be on the same night as the annual meeting and Michelle has booked FEMA to do the catering. The board has agreed to stay with the same number as last year and extra tickets to be purchased will be $15.00 each. ISTA & BSP will split the bill.
Update on Camping Spot: Michelle has been calling MJM monthly to check on the progress. In January, they told her she is next on the project list & in February they were having problems getting the transformer they needed. She can’t promise she will have more camping spots yet for this year. Currently there are four people on the waiting list and Susie has heard from everyone so far. Last year two weeks before the state shoot, there were 15 people on the waiting list, and she got them all in, so she is not concerned with a waiting list of 4 or 5.
50 Year Award: Stan asked if anyone else knew of people for the 50-year award. Joan reported Jim Lyons told her this was Dan Meinecke’s 50th year.
DELEGATE REPORT – Bill had nothing new to report.
NEXT MEETING DATE – June 13, 2025, at Brittany Shooting Park.
ADJOURNMENT – Motion to adjourn was made by Bill Maiden; Bill Huhn seconded the motion. Motion carried.
Respectfully submitted by Joan Maiden, ISTA Secretary