Clark County Bar Association

Clark County Bar Association Board Meeting

March 7, 2023

Minutes for the CCBA Board of Trustees Meeting March 7, 2023

Called to order 12:08 p.m. Phelan, Hawke, Larson, Aquadro, Sutanto, and Executive Director Darco February 2023 board meeting minutes: Motion to Approve (Hawke / Phelan) Approved

Treasurer’s Report (Phalen): There will be a cost overrun for the Barrister’s Ball because it was planned for 140 and turnout will be better than forecast. 210 tickets were sold. We’ll tell Ben about this overrun after the event.

Ongoing Action Items

Committee Reports:

Hearsay Committee: (Hawke): discussed upcoming articles

Social Committee:(Phelan) Barrister’s Ball is in four days. Board members are needed on the decorating crew.

CLE Committee: (Aquadro) 3/8/23 Nuts and Bolts: Bankruptcy; 4/12/23 Nuts and Bolts: Trusts and Estates; the first brown bag CLE (free for members) will be in May. A June CLE is being planned. For a later CLE, the board discussed the topic idea of practice tips when appearing in our neighboring counties and how practice and procedures differ from Clark County courts.

DEI Committee: (Aquadro) Wechselblatt emailed their report.

Vancouver Public Schools Street Law program: Phalen volunteered last week for the first class. Courtney Mendoza is assisting with scheduling and coordination-- Thank you Court -ney! You can contact Courtney or Deb Wechselblatt if you are interested in volunteering to teach a class.

Pride CLE: Tentative date 6/28/23. The event will be virtual to allow statewide participa tion. The CLE title is in development, but the current working title is “Will the Kids Be Alright? School Controversy Over Gender Affirmation and Anti-Trans Legislation.”

Judicial Mentorship Program: Tentative start is September 2023. Applications will be due over the summer. The program will include shadowing and small group discusssions.

Membership Committee (Sutanto) No updates

Previous Action Items:

Judicial Survey: (Phelan) no updates

Current Action Items

Membership Update (Darco) 2022/2023: 396 members, Nonrenewed: 55, New Members: 34, 2021/2022: 409 members

CCBA March General Meeting (Phelan) March 13th. Will move to amend CCBA Bylaws section 6.02 to add the DEI Committee and remove Bench/Bar from the CCBA standing committees.

Meeting with Cowlitz County Bar Association (Hawke) Hawke and Darco met with Tom from the Cowlitz Bar Association Board. Jessi Anderson from CCVLP and a representative from the Cowlitz VLP were also present. Tom proposed partnering for CLEs and a dual bar membership option. The CCBA board discussed these ideas. A dual membership option would build a relationship with a rural bar association and expand revenue potential for our CLEs and social events. The board approved further discussion with the Cowlitz Bar Association to work on details.

Formal Swearing In (Darco) Bar results will be released April 7th. Darco will work to make arrangements and set a date for the swearing in ceremony.

Adjourned 12:53

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