LitvakSIG, July 8, 2007

Meeting conducted in the IAJGS Chat Room due to technical failure of JaJah teleconferencing system.

The meeting was called to order by President Howard Margol at 5:50 EDT. Present were: Judy Baston, David Hoffman, Michael Posnick, Aaron Roetenberg, and Olga Zabludoff. Ada Green was not present.

1. A Treasurers Report was submitted by Aaron Roetenberg, showing The balance in the District Research Groups as $37,159.45, and the balance for The Vital Record Translation (VRT) project as $40,034.85 Total donations for 2007 thru 7/1 research projects and dues equal $51,848. This is more than three times as much this year as at this date last year

2. An Interim Election Report had been submitted to the Board prior to the meeting by Nomination Committee chair David Hoffman. The report outlined outreach efforts, including messages about the election on the Digest and efforts to try to correct bounced e-mails of members. As each vote was received at litvaksigvote@gmail.com Nancy Biederman (Election Committee Chair) sends an acknowledgement to the voter that his vote has been received and will be counted, and also to Jeff Miller (Election Committee partner) and Gene Alpert (Membership Chair) and all three check off that member as having voted.

In order to ensure anonymity and provide for a secret ballot, the Election Committee will print out each ballot, removing all identifying information (email addresses, names, notes) before they are counted. All original ballots will be preserved in case they are needed. The ballots will be counted at the Conference prior to the LitvakSIG meeting. A membership list indicating which members had already voted will be prepared before the meeting, and serve as the basis for determining who can receive a ballot at the meeting

3. A Luncheon Committee Report was given by Olga Zabludoff and Judy Baston. They reported that at the time of the meeting, 72 people had signed up for the luncheon and almost all participants had been assigned to a table based on their responses to questionnaires about their areas of Litvak research. Facilitators had been selected for each table and laptop computers and other resources were going to be available.

4. Since LitvakSIG t-shirts were going to be available in Salt Lake City, the Board discussed various ways of making them available to interested Litvaks.

Meeting adjourned at 6:21 PDT.

Respectfully submitted,

David Hoffman
Secretary
LitvakSIG