Present: Gene Alpert, Judy Baston, Rose Cohen, David Hoffman, Eden Joachim, Howard Margol, Aaron Roetenberg, Olga Zabludoff. Absent: Mike Posnick.

1.  Treasurer’s Report – Eden Joachim

$33,331.77	Regular Checking Account (as of Jan 11)
$15,686.04	CD’s (three as of Jan 11)
$36,576.69	Transamerica Account (as of December 31)
$3,865.00	Schwab Account (approx.)
$5,164.21	CD that matured (rolled over into MM account at bank w/best rate)
$94,623.71	Total Assets

We have 201 paid members for dues year 2008 prepaid prior to Dec 2007
The General Fund has a surplus of $1,074,70.
Our Fiscal Year Donations to date which will end June 30, 2008 = $40,968

2.   Membership Report- Gene Alpert
A membership reminder was posted in the December Digest and individual emails sent on January 1.  I will send out another reminder at the end of the month.

Eden noted that dues payments have been coming in steadily since December.

David added that when members get involved in reviewing the By Laws and in nominating and voting, there will be even more interest in voting and in becoming members.

3.  By-Laws Committee Report –David Hoffman
The Committee is working on and considering a completely new set of By Laws – a “restatement.” We decided against working on clauses piecemeal, as it was too difficult a task. We now have a first draft that meets Iowa nonprofit corporate law and is clear.

Our goal is to have a set of living By-Laws that can be followed and can be understood by any new member joining the organization.

4.  Seminar in Israel –Rose Lerer Cohen
Rose: noted that it was decided to hold the Seminar in the second week in April.

We are doing this with Beth Hatefutsoth. They are very central and can be reached by many ways. They also have all of the audiovisual equipment we need.

5.  The Chicago Conference

The Board discussed the scheduling of LitvakSIG progamming at the Chicago conference,
including what proposals have been submitted for presentations of Litvak interest.other presentations submitted?

Howard has submitted a proposal for a lecture on”Lithuanian Research, New Projects and Developments” and will cover two projects he is working on; David submitted two talks. It would be nice if we could have time for Birds of a Feather meetings – for towns or larger areas.

Meeting adjourned 1:39 pm Pacific Time

Respectfully Submitted,
David Hoffman
Secretary
LitvakSIG