ACWSA
Board Meeting Minutes

September
19, 2010

1.
Commander Bob Chabalowski called a meeting of the Wisconsin-Illinois ACWSA
group shortly after the close of the skirmishes awards ceremony on Sunday,
September 19, 2010, at the Conservation Club of Kenosha County (CCKC) in Bristol, Wisconsin.
Roll call was
taken:

Board
and Staff members present:

Cmdr
Bob Chabalowski

Paymaster
Darlene Van Kauwenbergh

JAG
Dan Graff

Quartermaster
Mary Borsic

Team
representatives present:

The
Iron Brigade Guard (Lance Herdegen)

1 USSS (Pat Kaboskey)

2 WI (Gary Van Kauwenbergh)

2 USSS (Steve Renner)

6 WI (Bob Jaburek)

8 WI (Dick Tessmann)

15 WI (Stephen Sherry)

56 VA (John Martin-Merhl)

66 NC (Bob Chabalowski)

2.
Minutes: After Gary Van Kauwenbergh reported he reviewed the last meeting
minutes, and no items needed follow-up, a motion was made and
carried to dispense with their reading.

3.
2010 Draft Schedule:  Gary Van
Kauwenbergh passed out copies of the combined draft schedules of the ACWSA
groups from WI & ILL,
MI & OH, and the N-SSA’s Western and
Northwest Regions.  Every host from
the ACWSA WI & IL area verified their date.

Please
be aware that all these dates are drafts!
Other notes:

* The draft schedule is available for viewing on
the web at http://acwsa.org/Documents/2011%20Schedule%20Draft.pdf

* We are still hoping for an ACWSA Championship
in 2011, but because of their range requirements for artillery, it will need to
one of their locations in MI/OH.

*
The date of the February board meeting is fixed, but the location is not.  Bob Chabalowski will try to find a
location more convenient for our MI/OH members.  Suggestions included the Wheaton, IL VFW, a motel at the LaPort,
Indiana exit, the Kenosha County Conservation
Clubhouse in Bristol, WI.
Stephen Sherry offered his home again.

*
Two dates still need filling in for the ACWSA MI/OH group after they know when
their ranges are available.

*
The N-SSA 46th ILL skirmish moved to the weekend after Easter for
2011

*
The 56th VA skirmish in July and the 15th WI skirmish in
September both remain friendship skirmishes with the N-SSA.

4.
Awards:  Commander Chabalowski asked
that we think about discontinuing annual award plaques.  We will continue the discussion and take
a vote in February.

*
Do we want to continue spending money to maintain the plaques?

*
If we stop the annual plaques, do we still want to keep annual statistics?

*
Should we have an annual WI/IL championship match instead, just let each
skirmish stand on it’s own?

5.
Proposed Skirmish Rule Changes:
Commander Chabalowski asked everyone to review the proposed changes to
the skirmish rules between now and February.

All
recommendations for improvement need to be in writing, and in the form of a proposal
for voting.  It must quote the rule
in question and include any replacement verbiage.  Sent your suggestions to Commander
Chabalowski at [email-masked] or JAG Dan Graff at [email-masked]

The
proposed set of rules on the web site has had a number of typographical errors
corrected, but none of the
suggestions receive to date have been incorporated into it.  The commanders’ intent is to bring
every proposed improvement up one by one at the February meeting and vote them
either in or out quickly.  We simply
do not have enough time for lengthy debates, or flushing out new proposals at
that meeting.  Members with suggestions
need to prepare and submit their proposals in time for circulation before the
meeting in February.  This includes
additions to the Approved Weapons List.

6.
Pat Kaboskey led the group with three “huzzahs” for Mary and Dean Borsic’s continued work to
support our skirmishes with targeting and frames. Mary and Dean work at every
skirmish, regardless whether their unit is hosting or not.

Pat
also commended the 8th Wisconsin for their skirmish in Rhinelander,
and let everyone that didn’t make it know that they missed a great
time.

7.
Lance Herdegen recommended we list all out 2011 events with the Civil War
Sesquicentennial Commission and the Wisconsin Department of tourism.  Hopefully this will also add credence to
our upcoming 501(c)(3) application.

8.
Pat Kaboskey also mentioned Boscobel Wisconsin’s
Musket and Memories event coordinator Marie Leifheit
is interested having a nighttime artillery demonstration as part of their event
next August.   Pat will keep us
posted.

9.
A motion was made, and passed to adjourn the meeting.  The next board meeting will begin at 9
a.m. on Sunday, February 13, 2011at a yet to be determined location.

Humbly
Submitted by,

Your
Obedient Servant,

Gary
Van Kauwenbergh