Surety Association of Ohio
4th Quarter Meeting Minutes
December 5, 2002

• Mark Drengler, President, opened the meeting at 12:30 PM with approximately 50 people in attendance at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Dublin, OH.

• Eric Schmidt, Legislative Committee Chairman, reported that the Surety Association and Surety Federation were unsuccessful with being able to get the State of Ohio to continue to require auctioneers to have an auctioneer’s bond. The State has set up a state pool/guaranteed fund to pay out losses. The State set up this program to be used by auctioneers in lieu of a bond.

• Eric Schmidt also reported for Marc Oravecz on the web site. The web site is up and running with the following web address: www.ohiosurety.com. One concern is the membership roster being posted on the web site. This would give headhunters, etc. easy access to information. It is still to be determined if this information will be posted. Eric encouraged members to utilize the web site, as it will have legislative issues, education, upcoming events, hot topics, links, and the by-laws. The goal to have the web site up and running by 12-31-02 will be met.

• Next Jim Ziogos from AIG Environmental in Cleveland, OH and John Lind from Lasko & Lind, an attorney from Cleveland, spoke on Mold and how it could affect our industry.

• We then had a guest motivational speaker, Earle Bruce, former Ohio State Buckeyes Football Coach.

• The meeting was adjourned at 2:00 PM. The next meeting will be held in March ’02 in Cleveland, OH. The date and time will be announced at a later date. We will be trying to get Lynn Schubert from the National Office of the SAA out of Washington D.C. to speak to our group. The board then met in executive session to plan the next meeting and discuss board related matters.