Kentucky Philological Association 
Annual Conference Business Meeting
March 8, 2025

•	Officer Changes
o	David Powell has stepped down as executive director. Shayne Confer has volunteered to take over this position. He will begin the work of this position immediately and begin work on next years conference. He will continue his position as Web master since these positions are linked closely and require a partnership. 
o	Tom Bragg was nominated for President by Shayne, this was seconded by Rebecca and approved by the rest of the association in attendance. 
o	Christy Selfridge nominated Laura Dennis for Creative Writing Representative. Laura nominated Christy to be Creative Writing Representative. A vote was held, and Laura was voted in by a majority. 
o	Erin Presley held her position as Editor in Chief
o	Ryan Sergent – Payne held her position as Secretary/Treasurer. 
•	Officer Reports
o	Treasurer
•	We have a total of $7,290.04 in the checking account and 7,188.68 in the savings account. There are multiple checks that will come out of this amount for things such as the balance on the use of EKUs facilities, the speakers fee, the grad student prize, and a few other expenditures that needed to be settled after the conference. 
•	Ryan asked for suggestions on how to spend the money we have in the accounts. 
•	Rebecca suggested offering an undergraduate prize. 
•	David said that we were looking to retain a good cushion of funds but agreed that we needed to find a way to spend some of the money. 
•	It was mentioned that next year we may need to hold the conference somewhere other than an academic institution that might cost us more money, fixing the issue we have with holding on to monetary assets.
o	Webmaster
•	The website is still running smoothly. 
•	Jot forms served us well again this year and the plan is to continue using them for registration and square to process conference registration next year. 
•	Currently there is no plan to make any changes in how things are running on the technological side of the conference. 
o	KPR
•	Erin passed out a handout explaining the issues that KPR has run into recently as well as a plan to complete the pending issues of the KPR while simultaneously working on this year’s issue. 
•	Erin is in the process of working with Karen’s husband to get the work she had already complete. That edition of the journal will honor her work and use what it is possible for us to recover. 
•	It was decided that we will continue to use amazon to publish the journal. 
•	Next year, there will be a portion of the registration form tat allows participants to indicate if they want a physical copy of the KPR. 
•	It was also suggested that part of the registration form be to indicate of you would be willing to work with the KPR editing team on the next journal.