President Jim Guffey called the meeting to order at 1:33 p.m. Eastern Time. Board members Roger Borgelt and Linda Siderius were not able to attend the meeting.

Approved the minutes of the January 8, 2000 meeting as presented (Hahn/Laws).

Approved the minutes of the April 14, 2000 teleconference as presented (Hahn/Swift) with one abstention.

Following comments made by Site Selection Liaison Mel Black, the Board approved the Pointe Hilton South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, Arizona as the site of CLEAR's 2005 annual conference (Black/Laws) with one nay vote.

Directed that staff refrain from soliciting another annual conference site for two years (Swift/Swain).

Staff reported that of the 48 conference sessions this year, 12 are completed, four are not yet underway and the rest are partially completed. A "meet the candidates" segment of the conference will occur during the Orientation to CLEAR session. Solicitation of sponsorship funds is going well, with sole sponsors now identified for both evening receptions.

Approved the 2001-2001 organizational plan as presented (Hahn/Laws).

Staff was directed to place the plan on CLEAR's Web site and to send a notification e-mail message to the membership when it is available.

Lisa Hahn asked that the minutes reflect the Board's gratitude for the hard work that Linda Siderius, Tony Zara, David Monahan, Mack Smith, other board members and staff, especially Pam Brinegar, had put into the plan over the past couple of years.

The Central Agency Administrators Special Interest Group had petitioned the Board for status as a regular standing committee. Helen Meeks moved and Tony Zara seconded a motion to deny the request that a Central Agency Special Committee be established. After discussion, the Board decided to table the motion and directed staff to send a letter inviting the chair and vice-chair of the Central Agency Adminisrators Special Interest Group to appear before the board during its September meeting in order that the proposal may be more fully explored.

The following Bylaws change, along with membership comments received and a rational provided by one of the sponsors, was placed before the Board for disposition:

Section 1. The CLEAR Board of Directors shall consist of the following fifteen (15) persons:

(a) President;

(b) President-Elect;

(c) Immediate Past President;

(d) twelve (12) other elected members, one of whom shall be an associate member and one of whom shall be a public (consumer) member. Board members who experience a change in status and who remain members of CLEAR may serve the remainder of their terms.

A motion to accept the proposed Bylaws change was defeated (Laws/Williams; 7-4). Following a discussion of the definition of public member, the Board voted to re-advertise the proposed change to the membership with the following changes in the proposed amended language for Section 1(d): and one of whom shall be a public (consumer) member who is part of a regulatory board.

Staff was directed to include a clarification statement that the re-advertisement is done to define what a public member means in this circumstance and to circulate the proposed language to the Board before its distribution to the membership.

The Board approved staff's recommendation that distance education activities (other than the advanced Internet module already underway) be deferred until the current curriculum and examination revision are completed (Swain/Hahn).

The Board approved exploring joint training projects with groups such as the Association of Real Estate Licensing Law Officials (ARELLO) and contractors (Hahn/___). President Guffey said that he would have a plan before the Board in September for proceeding with ARELLO, which has expressed interest in a joint training project with CLEAR.

Staff reported that Mel Black had identified a training opportunity with the Appraisal Subcommittee in DC which looks promising. Contact has also been initiated with Eastern Kentucky University's (EKU) law enforcement and training divisions regarding new instructor recruitment and other opportunities for which EKU could serve as a training resource.

The Board directed that CAC be encouraged to enter into its own hotel contracts with either the same properties CLEAR uses for its annual meetings or nearby locations. If CAC makes such local arrangements prior to CLEAR's printed promotion of its own meeting (typically early April), CLEAR will promote CAC's annual conference within its materials (Hahn/Sachs).

Staff is specifically to ask the central agency administrators and representatives on the proposed focus group for their comments on the proposed project. Staff indicated that it would conduct a general e-mail survey of the membership, since the response rate is somewhat greater using that approach than the traditional paper survey.

Following a presentation by Deanna Laws, Chair of the Special Awards Working Group,

The Board awarded the CLEAR 2000 Program Award to the Probation Program of the Respiratory Care Board of California and directed that honorable mention be given to the Arizona Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery for its licensing renewal system (Smith/Williams).

The Board directed that the awards consist of an engraved crystal piece and an unframed paper certificate (Laws/Hahn).

President Jim Guffey did not participate in the selection of the award winners, stating an apparent conflict of interest.

President Guffey thanked the Board members for participating in the call. He then told the members how much he appreciated their efforts this year and how much he had enjoyed being president of an organization he had been a part of for twenty years. As a follow up to a comment he had received from a member, President Guffey reminded the board members that they must be invited by the President to represent CLEAR before using their status as a board member as their primary designation in a public forum. There being no further business before the Board, President Guffey indicated that he would entertain a motion to adjourn.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:02 Eastern Time (Hahn/Smith)

Respectfully submitted,

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Pam Brinegar

Approved the Pointe Hilton South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, Arizona as the site of CLEAR's 2005 annual conference