Minutes of Special called SSHBEA Board of Director Meeting

3/11/08

          At 7:06PM on March 11, 2008 , Mack Motes called the Special SSHBEA BOD meeting to order and asked Janice Higgins to call the roll to verify we had a quorum to conduct business.  Eleven members were present. 

          Mack reported he was in attendance of a meeting today in Nashville with all the HIOs and the USDA was there and at lunch the HIO’s were presented with the fact that if a horse is found in violation of the foreign substance rule the 1^st offense would be a letter of warning and the 2^nd offense would be 2 weeks suspension and the HIO would be responsible for those 2 and the 3^rd offense would be a Federal case and this has nothing to do with the Operating Plan.   After discussion they agreed if the HIO’s could come up with an acceptable 3^rd penalty they might not make it a Federal case.  It would most likely be 2 -3 months before you would be notified of the charge.   Bill Hawk is an Agricultural Lobbyist and is to go tomorrow and negotiate on this for several HIO’s.  At the present thoughts were that Mr. Hawk might offer  the ideal of 1^st 2 offenses be the same as listed above and then possibly the 3^rd offense be 2 months, 4^th offense be 6 months and 5^th offense be 8 months.  There are three things that are legal to be on a horse’s leg – they are:  Mineral Oil, Glycerin and Petroleum.  After much discussion and many questions, Bob Wright made the motion to give Mack the authority to make the best decision for the industry.  Roy Franklin seconded, motion passed. 

          Roy Franklin made the motion to adjourn, Freda Bullard seconded, motion passed.

Present for Meeting                                Not present for meeting

Mack Motes                                                           Sis Osborne

Bob Wright                                                            Cindy Haley

Janice Higgins                                                        Ronnie Sapp

Aaron Crafton                                                        Maude Hopkins

Roy Franklin                                                          Doug Herring

Michelle Bailey                                                      Gordon Hirschi

Tamara Sullivan                                                     Benny Lance

Linda Bedwell                                                         Shane Hartwig

Freda Bullard

Don Woodson                                                         Guests

Dickie Gardner                                                       Danny Ray Davis

Kim McMahan                                                         Andy Hagewood