NYFTTA Special Director's Meeting
Sport Fishing Education Center - May 7, 2002

Meeting opened 7:50 PM.
Minutes from April 9, 2002 were accepted.

Regarding ratification's of the elections: abstentions do not count.(see enclosures).
Protocol to be put in place. Tentative until ratified by the Board.  This proposal was accepted.

Denise and Billy Witchey will be given Directorships but will be put on ballot in next year's election. This was approved.

Regarding the posting found on Striper Online from Charlie Witek- NYFTTA
will not respond at this time.

Regarding the Sportfishing Alliance to run the Sportsmen's Education Center-
June 1st. lease will not be signed so NYFTTA will retain control of this facility.

Regarding the lead bill- all this bill does is limit retail sales. When Gov. Pataki signs this bill there will be further problems arising if we do not act. John Mantione states he feels that this bill is unconstitutional. FJ Neil is behind NYFTTA.

Amendment to the Authorization for Litigation Proposal.: Added- subject to Board Approval. (See Authorization NYFTTA vs. The State of New York)
Approved by Linda Miller, Jack Ferrera, Timothy Fields, William Straub, Carl
Miller, Blaise Rifino and John Brando. Authorization and Signatures are on file.

Steve Engelbright is seeking to make Flaks Pond a Marine Protected Area.
NYFTTA's Political Action Committee will be working hard against this.

Loans are in negotiation for the Sportfishing Center.

There will be a meeting with D.E.C. early part of next week to discuss scup and fluke. We thought that fluke would be status quo.
Scup proposals: open with small bag then go to 50, July 1st. To Oct.20th with 50 fish, or June 15th to Sept. 15th with 50 fish then close for 2 weeks & 50 fish again.
Carl Miller brought up the problem of too many commercial crab traps in the Bay. John stated that we can propose some legislation. Carl will have some ideas by next meeting.

Linda stated that there will be a slight increase in the price of the rulers to NYFTTA so NYFTTA agreed to charge distributors $ 1.25 each and retailers $1.50 each. We will start with 5,000 rulers. John will get back to Linda with definite regulations by next week so the rulers can get started.

Linda also stated that Zip Printing who gets us the rulers would like the business from the Sportfishing Center. They can print on tee-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, hats etc. and will even help with logos and artwork. They are price competitive.

It was agreed that they will be contacted.