Minutes of the WMB Meeting on March 5, 2025
Attending: Jerry Tate, Ted Swenson, Scott Ingles, Dean Christie, Paul Longwell, Anita Eccles, Jim Lewis, Joan Nolan, Debra Langley-Boyer
Discussion Notes:
Certification: Ted gave the 2024 update for WMB which certified 98 total beekeepers with 92 being Apprentice status and 6 being Journeyman status.
For 2025, Ted has already certified 14 beekeepers from the Olympia Beekeepers.
Ted replaced the old, worn seal for making foil certificate impressions with a new replacement. Cost of the seal replacement plus shipping and 90 new, foil seals was $73.68. Andy has been invoiced for the $73.68. Debra motioned for Ted to be paid for the equipment for production of certificates.
Dues: Jerry will be sending the dues from the Olympia group to Andy.
Website: Ted and Jerry will continue to update the website with new forms, etc. for membership use and transparency.
Education: Dawn Beck with Puget Sound and several other beekeeping groups will be teaching the Apprentice certification for WBA. In addition, Debra will also be teaching the Apprentice classes as interest dictates.
Unified Business Identifier: Ted will follow-up with Andy regarding the UBI status.
Grants: Belfair & Beyond Beekeepers grant proposal was discussed. Several ideas were discussed including building hive parts, buying off Face Book, and ordering from current Beekeeping manufacturers. After consideration, it was proposed by Paul, seconded by Dean, and approved by WMB club to provide a monetary grant in the amount of $700.00 with the caveat that the grantee will provide the grantor with written reports of expenditures.
Next meeting will be in 6 weeks with the date and time to be determined.
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Minutes of the WMB Meeting on 12/11/2024
Attending: Debra Langley-Boyer, Ted Swenson, Scott Ingles, Joan Nolan, Jerry Tate, Scott Bleeker, Dean Christie & Anita Eccles
Officer Elections: Jerry Tate proposed that the list of officer volunteers be accepted as follows:
President – Jerry Tate (new)
Vice President – Scott Ingles (new)
Secretary – Dean Christie (new)
Treasurer – Andy Matelich (continuing)
All officers were voted on and accepted as proposed
WA Master Beekeepers Board: Debra moved to accept the proposed board members, Ted seconded, and the new board was accepted as proposed.
The new Board will consist of the current elected officers plus Ted Swenson, Joan Nolan, Scott Bleeker, Debra Langley-Boyer, Anita Eccles, and Paul Longwell
Audit – Jerry proposed that the financial books need to be audited
Dues: dues should be mailed to:
Andy Matelich
PO Box158
Black Diamond, WA
98010-0158
Web Site: Ted and Jerry will work to update the web site for more transparency. Jerry will update web site with board member’s email addresses
Next meeting date: March 5th@ 7:00 pm ( Debra will set up Zoom link)
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Minutes of the WMB Meeting of 10/14/2020
The zoom meeting began at 12:30.
Members present:
Bob Combs, Ted Swenson, Jerry Tate, Scott Ingles, Andy Matelich, Joan Nolan,
Daren Mumau, Teri McGarr, and Louis Matej.
- Treasurer Report: Current bank balance is $X,XXX.xx.
- President’s Report: Bob Combs talked with the WSBA president, Kevin Oldenburg. Kevin Oldenburg was not willing to set the record straight regarding Master Beekeepers being pushed out of the state association and then insulted by the previous president. Without an apology from WSBA (not a personal apology) reconciliation is not going to happen.
Old Business:
- Master Curriculum: No known progress. Louis Matej and Bob Combs will take over with Louis as lead.
- Journeyman course write-up is ongoing. Jerry Tate and Bob Combs will work towards an 80% standard with each local association finishing the remaining 20% according to their program.
- Grant’s were discussed. Any beekeeper of an association affiliated with WMB
may submit a research proposal to WMB. If approved WMB will match any funding with the proviso that a paper with the research objectives and outcomes are submitted at the end of the research effort.
New Business:
- Master Candidate: A motion to approve Bob Combs Master Beekeeper Certification was made. The motion was approved by all.
- Patches: Patches are available. The apprentice patch will cost $3.00 each, first come first serve.
- Website: Teri McGarr has volunteered to head the website revitalization program. Two assistants also volunteered to help. Jerry Tate and Ted Swenson.
- Reach Out efforts: Discussion of reach out efforts was discussed with all agreeing that WMB needs new folks. A discussion point that needs to be highlighted during outreach is WSU approving and Dr. Brandon Hopkins being a co-author of the Apprentice Bee Book.
Election of Officers: The election of officers was postponed until the January 2021 meeting. Date to be announced as soon as possible.
The meeting was adjourned.
Jerry Tate
WMB Secretary
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