Southern Criminal Justice Association

General Meeting

March 6, 2003

Boston, MA

Board Members Present: Tewksbury, Robinson, Crews, Mustaine, Sanborn, Everhart, Miller, Doerner, Hunter, and Fields.

Members Absent: Sloan, West, Morgan.

1. Meeting called to order by President Tewksbury at 4pm.

2. Report of the President (Tewksbury):

The Clearwater meeting was great!

Etta Morgan has accepted the invitation to finish out Marjorie Britz’s term as a Board Member.

The Dialogue is ceased and it’s content will be transferred to the web page.

Yeah, Beth! Great job on ACJS meeting.

3. Report of the First Vice President (Robinson):

Yeah, Beth! Good job on this meeting.

2003 SCJA meeting is September 24-27 in Nashville, TN. The Theme is “Justice in the Country: Big-Time Problems in Small Town America”. The Call for Papers is out. Please send your abstracts and panels to Robinson. Don’t be late. This year there will be new options for presenting. Also, Tewksbury will do a Presidential Address. Alexis Miller has been working hard and has some great stuff planned. It will be a great conference.

4. Report of the Second Vice President (Crews):

Awards Committee: Crews noted that the Call for Nominations is posted on the Web. Nominations deadline is noted as well.

Site Selection is progressing. Any volunteers should contact Crews or Angela West. So far, ideas include: Jacksonville Beach, FL and Savannah, GA.

5. Report of the Secretary/Treasurer (Mustaine):

Mustaine gave the financial report. Basically we have taken in a total of $30,973.73 and have spent a total of $3,980.96. As such, we have $26,992.77 in the account at present.

6. Report of the ACJS Regional Representative (Hunter):

Election results: All constitutional amendments passed. Laura Moriarty, who is from our region, was elected Second Vice President. Other new board members were noted. Also, Brandon Applegate, who is also from our region, is the Secretary.

The meeting fee next year will be $80.00 (up from $75.00).

Our colors will be Navy Blue and White.

Come to the Awards Luncheon and the Business Meeting.

7. Committee Reports:

A. AJCJ Editor (Doerner):

Volume 27, number 1 just came out. There were not many papers submitted for the issue, and it is a bit short. Doerner noted that we should consider whether we really want to keep the journal, if we do, we need to support it better. If members have topical ideas, send them to Doerner.

B. Audit Committee (Miller and Everhart):

The audit went fine and the committee actually watched Fields close the account. Fields did an outstanding job as Secretary/Treasurer.

C. Fundraising (Crews):

Etta Morgan will run a raffle at the Nashville meeting. If anyone can donate anything, please do.

We are designing a T-Shirt. There will be one for each conference. They will probably cost $12.00 each and colors will probably coordinate with the mugs.

D. Program and Local Arrangements (Robinson):

2004 Meetings will be in Raleigh-Durham, NC at the Capital Point Sheridan. This was members’ second choice for meeting locations.

E. Nominations and Elections (Sanborn):

Sanborn indicated that the call for nominations whet out on schedule, identifying the correct number of needed board members. Please submit your nominations.

F. Parliamentarian (Camp):

We are in order.

G. Site Review Survey (West):

West summarized the survey which indicated overall positive views of the Clearwater conference. The full report will be available on the web page. Tewksbury thanked the committee for their important work.

H. Webmaster (Robinson):

Everything that has been submitted is on the web site. Send any comments and suggestions to Robinson. Check your contact information and let Robinson know if there are any problems.

I. Secretariat (Tewksbury for Fields):

Membership lists were passed out in the traditional format. Membership is up, particularly in Florida and Kentucky.

8. Old Business

Tewksbury noted that the society needs to revise the bylaws. We have some strange, contradictory areas that need to be cleaned up. The Bylaws Revision Committee consists of Camp (Chair), Crews, Fields, Robinson, Mustaine, Sanborn, and Tewksbury. Crews will coordinate the revision meeting.

Crews is also working on a procedures manual that will outline officer/board member jobs.

9. New Business

If there is interest in Lexington, KY for SCJA 2005, Tom Baker will help out.

Bob Bohm suggested Daytona Beach, FL.

John Smykla suggested Mobile, AL.

Crews indicated that he and the 2005 Site Selection Committee will take these suggestions under advisement.

Camp suggested that we consider membership roles and go where we can pick up the most new members.

Robinson noted that we were going to contact CJ departments in TN for the 2003 meeting to recruit. We will continue to do this for future meetings.

Hunter said that ACJS is now financially stable after the rocky move to DC. M. Southerland echoed this and indicated that finances are getting better all the time.

Meeting adjourned: 4:55pm.