March 2018 Board Minutes

Minutes of the March 9, 2018 Meeting of the Board of Trustees

of the 

Nevada Judicial Historical Society

Chairman Peter Smith called the meeting to order at 12:15 P.M.  The meeting was held at Red’s 395 in Carson City, Nevada.  Present were the Treasurer, Janette Bloom; trustees Justice Gibbons, Dennis Myers, Terry Rankin, Judge Tom Perkins, Patty Cafferata, Karen Baggett and Jeff Kintop and member Susan Southwick.  There was a quorum to conduct business.

Both Minutes from the September 15, 2017 meeting and annual meeting were approved with no objections by motion made by Justice Gibbons and seconded by Karen Baggett.

Treasurer Janette Bloom stated she had completed and filed the Federal Tax Return by e-postcard for the non-profit Society.  She submitted a copy of the current funds ($6,900.95) available to the Society (attached).  She stated the bank account signature cards have been updated with signatures by herself, Peter Smith and Jason Sowards. Changes in the Nevada Revised Statutes free the Society from obtaining a business license and when medallions are sold, sales tax does not need to be charged.  Janette Bloom, Peter J. Smith and Susan Southwick counted the medallions and subsequently amended the report given to the membership. (See: Addendum to Minutes). Ms. Bloom’s treasurer report was approved at the meeting by motion made by Dennis Myers and seconded by Justice Gibbons.

Pending matters were discussed, including the editing of oral histories.  Janette Bloom and Jason Sowards are confirmed for this task.  For Judge Mendoza’s history, it is about 75 percent edited and Peter Smith has the copy.  Susan Southwick agreed to act as a typist to complete the corrections made by Vicki Mendoza.  The history is about 80 pages long and also needs to be indexed.  Susan Southwick also agreed to complete that index. 

Jeff Kintop reported that five histories are ready to go to the binder at the Nevada State Prison.  Janette Bloom agreed to submit the copies to Jeff for binding.  Binding costs of $1,100 have previously been estimated and agreed to by Jeff Kintop, Peter Smith, Janette Bloom and Karen Baggett. The costs are within the Society’s budget and Patty Cafferata moved to approve them which was seconded by Karen Baggett. Judge Johnson notified Peter Smith that he has edited a couple of histories which are also ready to go to binding.

There was no new business.  Peter Smith asked about a contact person to update the website for the Society on the Supreme Court’s page.  Justice Gibbons volunteered Jason Sowards, the Supreme Court’s Law Librarian, to make those corrections.

After lunch, at 1:25 P.M. Justice Gibbons moved to adjourn the meeting and Dennis Myers seconded that motion.       

Minutes submitted by Terry Rankin

ADDENDUM TO MINUTES: APRIL 2018

Subsequent to the Meeting in March 2018, Ms. Bloom and Ms. Southwick were able to retrieve several sets of medallions held at the Court for sale, compare past sales and update the number of medallions. 

The final Count includes the following:

For 2000, zero
For 2003, 80
For 2004, 128
For 2005, 143

For a total of 351 medallions plus 2 sets of 5 each (in display cases).  For those 2 sets, one is on display in the Nevada Supreme Court Law Library and one is with Ms. Southwick.

Updated by Terry Rankin, April 2018

Update by Peter J. Smith:  One set of 5 and three loose coins in the possession of Peter J. Smith, 366 total medallions