• Lisa Singh provided an overview of the past year.   Restorative Justice articles were published in ACR’s Journal of Dispute Resolution; Restorative Justice track/pre-conference were part of the 2008 conference.  The Section membership decreased. 
• The budget was discussed.
• Providing a bi-annual newsletter was discussed and Cheryl Miller volunteered to work on the newsletter.
• Discussion on whether to insitute a separate Section conference took place.  The members present agreed that maintaining our one day advanced training was best.
• The possiblity of bringing in an international speaker for the 2009 conference was discussed.  Partnering with the International Section was suggested.  

		ACR RESTORATIVE AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE SECTION Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN - Meeting Minutes for Friday, September 29, 2005 Present:  Ron Claassen, Cliff Dorne, Linda Harvey, Lois Edmund, Andy Levin, Cheryl Swanson, Lois Edmund, Kristi Ging, Theresa O’Neil, Kimberly Hudson, Mary Lee, Lisa Singh, Judge Fred McElrea, Roxanne Classen, Irene Hensinger, Joel Tanner 1. Call to Order at 4:15 p.m. 2. Welcome and Introductions A special welcome was extended to our guest Judge McElrea of New Zealand. 3. On behalf of the Section, Cliff thanked outgoing Co-Chair Cheryl Swanson for her leadership and excellent work on behalf of the group. 4. Theresa O’Neil was nominated by Cheryl and unanimously elected as Co-Chair of the Section. She will serve along with Cliff. Theresa works as a Program Administrator at the Center for Civil Justice in Saginaw, Michigan and has worked as an adjunct instructor at Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan where she taught Conflict Management. She is an experienced mediator and is active in victim-offender and school truancy mediation programs. Theresa also started a mediation practice in partnership with two other mediators. 5. Doug Noll will continue to serve as the editor of the Section Newsletter and members are encouraged to send him articles and informational items for publication. Duane Ruth-Heffelbower will continue to serve as editor of the Section website. The Section thanks them for their dedicated service in these areas. 6. Section Goals for 2005-2006 Linda and Lisa will work on developing an advanced practitioner training with cutting edge perspective on Restorative Justice. This issue needs to be approved by the ACR and we will make some inquiries to determine what needs to be done to this effect. Dr. Cheryl Swanson volunteers to contact the Restorative Justice practitioners in Pennsylvania to get them involved in next year’s Annual Conference. The Section would like to communicate with ACR directly through e-mail. Cliff and Cheryl reported on their meeting with ACR officials. Cliff and Theresa will follow up with ACR staff with requests to streamline the email communication process within the Section. We are planning to continue to confer with the leadership of the Victim Offender Mediation Association (VOMA) to discuss the possibility of project collaborations and other joint ventures between the RJ Section and VOMA. 7. Meeting adjourned at 5:35 p.m.
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		We had an excellent section meeting and reception at the annual ACR convention in Sacramento.  We elected a new co-chair, Cliff Dorne, and expressed thanks to Linda Harvey, our co-chair for three years.        Following this note will be the minutes from our section meeting.  We have developed a number of goals that we ask you to help us achieve.  Each goal has a point person assigned to implement it, and these are one-year goals.  At next year’s annual meeting in Minneapolis, we will review these goals and give some attention to a review of our mission statement and our overall goals and objectives for the section.  We hope you will join us.        Please contact Cliff Dorne (cdorne@svsu.edu) or Cheryl Swanson (cswanson@uwf.edu) if you would like to work on any aspect of the annual goals listed in the minutes.  We would especially like to invite interesting, informative pieces for our newsletter.  These should be sent to Cheryl or Cliff. Also, please think about submitting a proposal for a presentation at next year’s annual meeting.  We would also like to encourage proposals that focus on international perspectives on restorative justice, but other topics are encouraged as well. And please encourage interested people that you know to join ACR and our section!        That’s all for now.  Thank you for joining us in bringing our section to new heights of success. Respectfully,   Cliff Dorne Cheryl Swanson Co-chairs, Criminal and Restorative Justice  Section