In its fifth year as an official AALL chapter, SANDALL maintained an active as well as an ambitious schedule of educational and social programs.

This year SANDALL membership grew to ninety-nine members. Our board for 2002-2003 included Tracey Pardo, President; Sushila Selness, Vice President; Sheila Corman, Secretary; Owen Smith, Treasurer; and Mary Garcia, Past President.

The big issue that we faced this year was a review of our bylaws and reworking of some parts to better reflect the changes in membership. The proposed changes failed to obtain the two-thirds vote necessary to pass, so for the foreseeable future the bylaws will remain unchanged.

We had a very energetic and hardworking program committee this year. The highlight this year was the Joint Institute held in San Luis Obispo. For the first time ever the institute involved all three AALL chapters in California, NOCALL, SCALL and SANDALL. We also held a silent auction this year in conjunction with our Spring Social, which raised quite a bit of money; this enabled us to award a grant to one member to cover the cost of registration for this year's AALL conference. Special thanks to Sushila Selness who did a remarkable job putting on programs and activities in a tough economic climate.>

SANDALL's liaison to the AALL Government Relations Committee, Joan Allen Hart, kept us informed this year regarding several legislative issues. In collaboration with other organizations in California, letters were sent to Governor Gray Davis' office to ask him to veto AB 2648, which he did, thereby saving funding for the San Diego Public Law Library and avoiding setting a terrible precedent for other public law libraries.

The new Executive Board for 2003-2004 consists of: Liz Carroll, President; Laurel Moran, Vice President; Sheila Corman, Secretary; Nanna Frye, Treasurer.

I would like to express my appreciation and gratitude to the SANDALL's Executive Board, committee chairs, members and volunteers who give of their time to keep our organization running. It was an honor and a pleasure serving as your president.

Tracey M. Pardo
President 2002-2003