NYCAAZK General Meeting Minutes – Saturday April 20, 2013
Location: Bronx Zoo, Admin East, Curator’s Room Current Members: Sarah Parker, Sara Koplish, Joe Nappi, Sarina Cella, Elizabeth Mills, Heather Tassler, Mo Ortiz, Michelle Medina, Robin Sutker, Cindy Maur, Danielle Steele, Flo Klecha Future Members: Lora Murphy, Kaitlyn Keys - Training successes and trials share timeIdeas for scale training - Reviewed last meetings minutes Upcoming Events - Barnanza – Tuesday, April 30th 7:00 PM at Tavern on 3rd, bring friends o For future events we are considering some sort of bring non-members get in free deal - May Meeting/ Enrichment Bonanza – May 20th in Flaherty Learning Center - National Zookeeper Week – July 21-27th, night event, keeper profiles, keeper grams, gifts - BFR – Still approving venue, possibly Lucky Strikes - Run for the Wild – April 27th - Photo Contest live May 1st, please push interest on Facebook, etc. o Finishing up rules o Will discuss if it is worth it to produce a calendar, and if we do we will get it printed much earlier - AAZK National Conference call for papers deadline – May 15th Treasurer Report of finances - Still have $5000.00 Updates - We need to re-work our mission statement to reflect how NYCAZZK has evolved since its creation. - Thank you Michelle for all of your technical support. - How can we make meetings more attractive? - Do we have to meet every month? Can we meet at each facility independently every month with a collective meeting only every few months? Committees - Went over scoring guide for the travel grant recipient. o VOTE: Unanimously voted for approval by committee using scoring template beginning with October travel grant. - Travel Grant recipient presentation from Melissa Ortiz, Queens Zoo Vet Tech o Applying for the Travel Grant to attend the Thirty-Third annual conference of Association of Zoo Veterinary Technicians to be held Sept 5th to 9th in Seward Alaska by the Alaska Sealife Center o She will be presenting this year on "Obtaining voluntary End Tidal Carbon Dioxide values in awake California sea lions" o The purpose of this paper is to find out what CO2 levels sea lions live with comfortably while they are awake, compare it to their anesthetized values § In the future develop a case to see if this does in fact have to do with their dive reflex o VOTE: Unanimously voted YES for Melissa to receive grant. Good luck!
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