Association of Washington Geographers
Board Meeting
Saturday 18 October 2003

Officers and Board Members present: Patrick Buckley (Pres.), Western Washington U.; Tom Chow, Edmonds C.C.; Chip Dodd (Treas.), Shoreline C.C.; JW Harrington (VP), U. of Washington; Nancy Hultquist, Central Washington U.; David Jeschke, Green River C.C.; Kerry Lyste, Everett C.C.; Todd R. Wright (Sec.)

Others present: Tom Edwards, Microsoft; Jubel Harpster, City of Bellevue; Gordon Kennedy, Washington State Dept. of Transportation; Gunter Krumme, U. of Washington; Wadell Patterson, United Farm Workers of America; Richard Tebbetts.

Patrick Buckley called the AWG Autumn meeting to order at 3:00 p.m. immediately following the General AWG Autumn Meeting, which was held on the Edmunds C.C. campus, hosted by Tom Chow.

By-laws

The following six items were presented as suggested revisions to AWG’s by-laws.

  1. Assignment of our Vice President to a seat reserved for AWG on the Washington Geographic Alliance (WAGA) board (Article IV Section 1) and in return creating a seat on our board for a representative of WAGA (Article V Section 2). The purpose of these moves reflects our desire to create more coordination and communication between AWG and WAGA, while recognizing their different missions and clientele.

  2. Minor correction to reflect the fact that we have four officers who are all on the board, and codification of our practice of having the out-going past-President appointed to the board (Article V Section 2).

  3. Statement of our desire to have a board which is well representative of the Geography profession both in academia and the private sector and across our geographic extent. A statement reflects this fact and in addition to make certain that 4-year and 2-year colleges are represented as well as professional geographers, of the remaining five (5) board seats one (1) is reserved for each of these three categories. The remaining two seats (2) are considered at-large (Article V Section 2). The purpose of this wording is to guarantee that our organization always considers all or our constituents in selecting board members.

  4. Expansion of our board from the current ten (10) members to eleven (11). This enables the addition of one new member to represent WAGA (Article V Section 2).

  5. Resulting proposed board membership:
    1. President
    2. Vice President
    3. Secretary
    4. Treasurer
    5. Past-President
    6. WAGA Representative
    7. 4-year and above college member
    8. 2-year college member
    9. Professional Geographer member
    10. First at-large member
    11. Second at-large member

    Note that all positions (officers and other board members) with the exception of the WAGA representative, will be voted on by the entire membership. WAGA will appoint its representative to the board.
  6. Change of the wording from executive committee to the Board. This makes the document easier to understand.

Following a discussion of the six items above, David Jeschke moved to accept the revisions. Nancy Hultquest second the motion and the Board unanimously approved. The motion was carried.

Election of officers and Board members

Subsequent to the newly passed by-law revisions, nominations were declared and votes were openly cast, resulting in the following AWG Officers and Board members for 2004 – 2006:

Spring Board Meeting

To date, the Spring Board Meeting has been scheduled to take place at the University College of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia. JW agreed to follow up with UCFV to confirm their intent to host the Spring meeting. Should UCFV agree, April 24th has been tentatively set for the meeting, which will direct its focus on students by providing a venue for both undergraduates and graduates to present their work, i.e. presentations and posters.

Other proposed events for the meeting included a discussion of a border crossing field trip to Vancouver BC’s Gaslamp Quarter.

A two hour interim meeting will be held at Bellevue Community College on 13 December, 10:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. to further discuss the details regarding the Spring Meeting.

Membership Dues

David Jeschke motioned to increase the AWG’s membership fees from $10.00 to $12.00 for non-students and $5.00 to $6.00 for students. The Board unanimously approved the motion. Motion carried.

AWG Website

Gunter Krumme raised the issue of the association’s website, which resulted in discussion and a general agreement to regroup and focus on the content of the website, including to:

The meeting adjourned at 3:58 p.m.

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