After a false start earlier in the year where insufficient members voted for the election to be valid a new vote was taken. The new members were announced on this site last week.

A meeting of the AOBA Board of Directors was held in Nashville this weekend and AOBA Board officers were elected for the year 2008 - 2009. The officers are as follows:

David Barboza, President
Tim McCarty, Vice President
Ian Watt, Secretary
Jerry Forstner, Treasurer

Retiring from the AOBA Board of Directors after two consecutive three year terms were Amy McCroskie and Steve Hull.
What perhaps isn't widely known, yet is that the last meeting of the old board approved an amendment to the effect that board members cannot also be judges and so David Barboza and Ian Watt when he qualifies as a judge will have to decide if they want to be on the board or if they want to judge alpacas.....

David decided to stay on the board and become the President...thus giving up his alpaca judging. Not quite sure when the judging has to stop as David is scheduled to judge our alpaca show Alpacamania 2008 in October so if he can't do it we will need to find an alternative PDQ....