President Jon Peterson called the 2006 Annual Membership Meeting to order at 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 30, 2006, at the ISTA Home Grounds in Cedar Falls with 93 members in attendance. Director’s Don Wickliff, Rick Kalsow, Dan Wood and Ed Griffith were present.

The Secretary read the minutes of the 2005 Annual Meeting. It was moved by Phil Thyer, seconded by Robert Fuller, to accept the minutes as read. Motion carried.

The Treasurer’s report for the year and a summary of the state shoot were presented. There were 419 annual memberships issued in 2006 compared to 465 in 2005. The life memberships issued in 2006 were 7 compared to 16 in 2005. Grand total life memberships issued are 722. The daily fees for 2006 were $4,360 compared to $5,086 in 2005. State shoot entries thru Saturday were down to 5,047 from 5,656 in 2005 which is down 11%. Cash assets as of July 22, 2006, were $23,832 compared to $22,034 in 2005. Total other assets are $619,996. Liabilities to the First State Bank of Colfax is $19,913.75.  There were 145 shooters at the 2006 Memorial Weekend Shoot compared to 180 in 2005.  Robert Fuller moved, R. G. Prucha seconded, the report is accepted. Motion carried.

Election of President:
Pat Lyman nominated Jon Peterson, seconded by Jeff Walters. Tom Dentel moved nominations cease, seconded by Mark Scholl, motion carried. Jon Peterson was declared President.

Election of ATA Delegate:
Robert Fuller nominated Phil Thyer, seconded by Pat Lyman. Rick Kalsow nominated Tom Dentel, seconded by Jeff Walters.  R. G. Prucha moved nominations cease, seconded by Robert Fuller, motion carried. The vote was then taken by paper ballot and read by Robert Fuller and Rick Kalsow. While the votes were being tallied, Neil Winston, ATA Vice President, commented on various items including The Grand at Sparta, IL.  The votes were read and Phil Thyer was declared ATA Delegate.

Election of ATA Alternate Delegate:
Bev Dominacki nominated Tom Dentel as 1^st ATA Alternate Delegate, seconded by Jeff Walters. Jerry Pierce nominated Pay Lyman, seconded by Gary Dudley.  Robert Fuller moved nominations cease, seconded by R. G. Prucha, motion carried. The vote was then taken by paper ballot and read by Bev Dominacki and Jerry Pierce.  Mark Scholl commented on the Friday youth shoot which had 88 youth in attendance, we well as thanking Federal for providing the shells, White Flyer for providing the targets, and Shamrock Leather for donating a leather bag for this youth shoot.  Phil Thyer and Ron Munkel then commented on the new DNR Program wherein the DNR will be hiring a full-time employee to promote trapshooting.  The votes were read and Tom Dentel was declared 1^st ATA Alternate Delegate.

Bev Dominacki nominated Dennis Bigelow as 2^nd ATA Alternate Delegate, seconded by Tom Dentel.  Jerry Pierce nominated Pat Lyman, seconded by Ed Griffith.  R. G. Prucha moved nominations cease, seconded by Robert Fuller, motion carried. The vote was then taken by paper ballot and read by Bev Dominacki and Jerry Pierce.  Jon Peterson then asked for comments.  The 100 targets per trap has been well received by all shooters, water jugs are wanted on all traps, the speaker system continues to be a problem, and more bathrooms are needed.  Dennis Bigelow was declared 2^nd ATA Alternate Delegate.

Old Business:  None.

New Business:
Alan Nicholas commented that each of the four zones should help feed the trap help at night during shoot offs at the state shoot.  Jon stated that the Association did furnish pizza Friday night to the trap help during shoot offs.

Dale Stockdale made a motion to leave the state team requirements for the 2005-06 target year the way they were last year and remove the dictation that a shooter must shoot one-half of their singles, handicap and doubles targets in Iowa and must shoot the 400 championship targets at the Iowa State Shoot, seconded by Tom Dentel, motion carried.

Dale Stockdale then made a motion that when the Directors are reviewing the state team requirements that the state team members should be able to have input, seconded by Tom Dentel.  After a lengthy discussion, Dale Stockdale withdrew his motion and Tom Dentel withdrew his second.  Phil commented that a survey was sent to all state team members and the results of that survey are on the ISTA website.  Members would like to see an agenda for Board meetings and minutes posted on the ISTA website.

Dennis Bigelow made a motion to reinstate the husband-wife and parent-child trophies which were removed from the 2006 State Shoot, seconded by Bev Dominacki, motion carried.

Pat Moore commented on the 60-40% split of expenses between the Cedar Falls Gun Club and the ISTA.  It has been suggested that the ISTA hire a full-time manager to run the ISTA grounds, however, Jon commented that this would not be in the best interests of either the Cedar Falls Gun Club or the ISTA.

Tom Hamann commented on the trophy package for the High Over All.  Presently the winners of the HOA are Champion, Runner-up and Special Categories.  Tom suggested that not everybody is in a category and everybody is in a class, so would like to see class trophies added.

The camping electricity was commented on and to correct the problem of outages, Cedar Falls Utilities needs to upgrade the transformer.  This will again be looked into prior to the 2007 state shoot.

A motion was made by Noel McCalley that the meeting adjourn, seconded by R. G. Prucha.  Meeting adjourned at 9:00 am.

Debra Oelmann
Secretary