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Great Basin Anthropology Association

Minutes for the 2006 GBAA Business Meeting - October 21, 2006, Las Vegas

Attending: GBAA Board members (Steve Simms, Dennis Jenkins (left early to catch a plane), Joel Janetski, Kim Carpenter, Charmaine Thompson, David Zeanah, Heidi Roberts), various GBAA members

Agenda Items

1.  Report on 2006 Conference - Heidi Roberts

(She will send her report to me via email once it is finalized)

2.  2004 minutes were approved unanimously - JC Janetski

3.  2006 election results as follows:

$VP - Pat Barker

$ Secretary - Tim Murphy

$ Member at Large - Kim Carpenter

Steve pointed out that the election turnout was low.  We need to do better.  (JCJ speaking: Perhaps we should get serious and have a bio for each candidate so we know these folks a bit more).

4.  Student Poster Award - Kim Carpenter

            Three posters were selected but I didn’t get the names.  The judges worked out fine.

5.  GBAA Web site

$ Discussion was very positive re the web site. 

$ All in favor of continuing with the current arrangement and that the

web site should continue to serve the GBAA at $100/year. 

$ All seemed in favor of the additional cost of adding credit card

capability to the conference and web site.

6.  Annual report to Idaho, etc. - Steve Simms

            No discussion much.  Just information.

7.  Nominations Committee Report (Mike Delacorte/Matt Seddon/Amy Gilcrease)

$ Only Matt in attendance. 

$ This committee will have to re-convene for 2008 meetings

$ Up for election at that time will be President and a member at large

8.  Treasurer’ Report - David Zeanah

Provided a handout that is attached

9.  2008 GBAC discussion - Virginia Butler Program Chair

$ Going to Portland

$ VB laid out why she had to reject Bend - too expensive, etc.

$ D. Thomas mentioned possibility of partnering with other Anthro

organizations

$ VB will push this idea with her colleagues

10.  2010 GBAC Program Chair

$  2010 chair will be Matt Seddon

$  Location will be SLC or place of his choosing in the EGB

11.  Founders Award Discussion - J Janetski and Dennis Jenkins

$ Motion accept draft document with some minor word changes

 allowing the Board to select the first Awards Committee.  From then

 on the Committee will be chosen by the general membership like the

 officers

$ This will get the ball rolling

$ Passed unanimously

12.  Changes to By-laws - Steve Simms

$  Change GBAC to GBAA throughout by-laws

$  Change terms for members-at -large to four year terms

$  Added an Idaho representative.  Pat Dean has accepted to do this.

$  Motion on changes passed unanimously

Other Business

$  Discussion at the onset about buying power point projectors.  This

 was discussed at some length, but Bob Kelly’s insights from the SAA

 experience (they bought them but then went back to renting) swayed

the vote.  Motion to buy 4 projectors failed.  Steve is going to

continue to investigate this as a possibility

$ Discussion of the GBAA publishing sessions on line at web site. 

$ Grayson suggested possibility of publishing dissertations on line. 

 But what about copyrights.

$ Matt S. raised a concern about the figs.

$ O’Connell mentioned that the Paleoanthro Society has done an

 informal web site for some time and we could contact them to

 explore options

$ Bettinger thought all of this might be costly

$ Steve suggested doing an occasional publication

$ JCJ mentioned that the GBAA has had a tradition of publishing

 select sessions (plenaries).  The last one done with GBAA was the

 Wetlands volume out of BYU in 1990.

$ Perhaps Heidi could publish the 2006 plenary and the GBAA could

 fund it.

$ Program chair organizes the plenary and could then step up and be

the editor

$ No final decision on this publication issue

Everyone got thirsty and we adjourned.

Minutes taken by Joel C. Janetski, Secretary, GBAA.
Minutes of the Business Meeting held at the
28 th Great Basin Anthropological Conference
Elko, Nevada.

October 12, 2002

Members present - ~ 50. (People kept coming and going.)

Max Pavesic, President GBAA, conducted. Other officers present included: Charlotte Beck and Steve Simms, Treasurers, Joel Janetski, secretary, Don Fowler, member-at-large.

1. Approval of minutes from 2000 business meeting.

J. Janetski, GBAA secretary, read minutes which were approved without modification.

2. Finances and meeting attendance.

• Steve Simms reported on 2000 GBAC in Ogden. 510 people registered. Transferred $23,900 to Pat Dean for 2002 GBAC in Elko. Held out $1,300 from silent auction.

• Preliminary report is that 484 registered for the Elko GBAC. Income is about $20,600 bringing balance to ~$44,500. Costs are estimated at $15,000 leaving a balance of $28,987.

• In addition, funds generated by the silent auction brought the special projects fund to $6,600.

3. Liability Insurance.

The costs to cover the conference for liability jumped from $260/meeting to $600/meeting after the 9/11 disaster

4. Discussion of 2004 GBAC

2004 will be the 50th Anniversary and will be held in Sparks, Nevada. David Zeanah will be program chair assisted by Mark Basgall and Michael Delacorte.

• Pavesic called for ideas on themes and special sessions to celebrate this milestone in GBAC. One theme possibility is shifts in theoretical perspectives over the last half century.
• Encouraged nominations for the Founders Award and suggested that the Board will move ahead with those nominations.
• Noted that UNR is continuing to collect the archives for the GBAC

5. Impending changes in the Journal of California Great Basin Anthropology.

• Mark Sutton and Jill Gardner have been fired by the Malki Board. Thoughts are that the journal is going to change to contain more politicized articles on Indian issues especially in California. Malki Board wants fewer archaeology articles. Jill Gardner is of the opinion that, under this new format, JCGBA will fail.
• The discussion then turned to the possibility of the GBAA producing a journal.
• Kay Fowler noted that the journal she works with costs ~ $10,000/yr and is supported by Institutional subscriptions and membership dues. Journals are a lot of work. A journal would give the Secretary/Treasurer a lot of responsibility.
• Jill Gardner stated that JCGBA subscription rates had risen to $35/yr and costs were equal for all, including institutions. The Malki Board owned but did not support the journal financially. Occasionally the journal provided some funds for the Board.
• Tom Green noted that Arctic and Plains Anthropology are done largely by volunteer labor, although they do pay a copy editor.
• Don Fowler pointed out that should the GBAA decide to do a journal we would have to have dues. Response was that subscription costs are like dues.
• Tom Jones emphasized that the loss of the JCGBA would leave a big hole in publication options for this region and this is a serious loss.
• Scott Thomas of the BLM suggested his agency might be willing to participate in some way to support the journal.
• Lori Pendleton asked why we can’t just change the title of the journal and continue with it?
• A committee was formed to pursue this issue consisting of: Mark Sutton, Don Fowler, Bob Elston, Jill Gardner, and Brooke Arkush.
• Jim Allison recommended the committee explore the possibility of an electronic journal. This was acknowledged by the new committee.

6. Board Composition Issue

Issue on the table is: should we have more at-large members? How many?

• C. Beck noted that she has heard some grumbling that the Board is academic, male dominated. No students.
• Janetski asked if we should specify the kind of persons we want ala Utah Board of State History?
• Jim Allision suggested we expand the board without stipulation.
• Max stated that he didn’t like the idea of a quota
• Virginia Butler suggested the nominating committee use good judgement in selecting new board members.
• Don Grayson (or Bob Bettinger, identity not clear due to the beard) supported V. Butler.

D. Fowler made two motions: 1) Expand Board to add 3 members and change by-laws so that at-large members don’t have to be past chairs. 2) Existing officers are the nominating committee. Discussion of these motions.

• Clarified that members are those who register for the GBAC.
• Jim Allison asked why don’t we just expand the Board now?
• Lori P. Asked why we have to make the GBAC so complicated. Last fun conference.
• Kathy Callister felt there needs to be a greater diversity on the Board as so much of what is being done is funded by federal agencies.
• Lori P. Noted that there was a similar concern awhile back that private contractors, who were doing much of the work didn’t used to attend but are now attending conference in good numbers
• Jim Allison, Kathy Callister and Virginia Butler all volunteered to be on the Board now to be part of nominating committee for upcoming elections.

Don Fowler altered his motion to accommodate volunteers/appointees for nominating committee.

• Both motions passed unanimously.

[People are now fleeing the meeting in droves as vans prepare to leave for field trip]

7. Problems with 2002 elections

• Secretary Janetski failed to contact those nominated for offices to insure acceptance of the nominations, therefore the election didn’t happen.
• Bob Elston made a motion that existing officers extend for 2 years. Passed.
• Charlotte Beck made motion that the outgoing program chair automatically be the GBAA treasurer. This means that Pat Dean is now the GBAA treasurer and no vote is needed.
• Don Fowler offered thanks to Pat Dean and Tim Murphy for good work on GBAC
• And thanks were extended to Mark Sutton and Jill Gardner for their excellent work on JCGBA.

Adjourned since all are leaving anyway.