Directors Duties

President
​Carry out the day-to-day business in accordance with the By-Laws, and act in the best interest of the corporation by:

  1. Oversee and delegate, along with assist and advise other Officers on the Board;
  2. Serve as TRVEA representative at official functions attended; and
  3. Conduct monthly BOD meetings;
  4. Schedule and oversee two membership meetings annually; and
  5. Attend meetings for TRVEA related issues to promote equestrian presence in the valley.
Vice-President
​Carry out the day-to-day business in accordance with the By-Laws, and act in the best interest of the corporation by:
  1. Assisting the President; and
  2. Carrying out Presidential duties when the President is unavailable, such as conducting meetings of the Board of Directors.  ​
Secretary
​Carry out the day-to-day business in accordance with the By-Laws, and act in the best interest of the corporation by:

  1. ​Prepare the BOD Meeting Agenda one week before each meeting;
  2. Attend and take minutes at all TRVEA meetings;
  3. Write minutes and email them to BOD within one week of each official meeting for amending or approval; and
  4. Keep current record of minutes and agendas (both hard copy and digital) to be turned over to the BOD upon leaving office.
Treasurer
​Carry out the day-to-day business in accordance with the By-Laws, and act in the best interest of the corporation by:
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  1. Maintain timely financial records;
  2. Perform banking activities;
  3. Receive payments, donations, and assets;
  4. Disburse invoices and payments;
  5. Maintain & monitor operational cash activities such as cash boxes used by the Association;
  6. Report and file tax and reporting obligations to government agencies;
  7. Monitor and analyze the financial health of the corporation; and
  8. Report financial activities and analysis to the Board of Directors.
Trails Maintenance Coordinator
  1. ​Organizes monthly trail maintenance along with trail clean ups in the TRV; and
  2. Establishes a good working relationship with all of the different land owners/agencies in the valley.
In the TRV, we not only have the private owners, we also have County Parks, State Parks, Fish and Wildlife, City of San Diego, Homeland Security/ Border Patrol.
Special Events Coordinator
​Carry out the day-to-day business in accordance with the By-Laws, and act in the best interest of the corporation by:
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  1. Keeps members informed and manages the event mailing list;
  2. Handle R.S.V.P.s for events;
  3. Coordinate or assist with events as needed;
  4. Create posters;
  5. USIBWC Citizen's Forum representative; and
  6. TRVRT representative.
​MEMBERSHIP OFFICER
Carry out the day-to-day business of membership enrollment and recruitment in accordance with the By-Laws, and act in the best interest of the Association by:
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  1. Maintain current membership applications in appropriate formats;
  2. Receive membership applications from prospective members;
  3. Ensure new member applications are correctly completed;
  4. Enter completed member applications into designated membership listings and insurance reporting forms in a timely manner;
  5. Report each month new member information to appropriate insurance agencies;
  6. Mail the Welcome Package letters to new members in a timely manner;
  7. Act to reasonably preserve privacy of member information;
  8. Disburse membership reports to requesting Association officers; and
  9. Report membership activity to the Board of Directors.
Youth COORDINATOR
Description coming soon...
MEMBER At-LARGE
Description coming soon...

2019 Directors

Vickie Bannister
President
Vickie’s First Love at the age of 12 was a high-spirited, jet black Arabian. She mucked stalls at a boarding facility to save enough money to purchase him and then to pay for his stall and feed. He introduced her to the amazing world of horses.

​Later, a career, marriage and children would take precedent over her riding, but not her continued passion for these amazing animals. After her three boys were grown and on their own, a move to San Diego re-connected her with that passion. Today, she is a very proud Mom to three wonderful grown boys, “GiGi” to two precious grand children and proud owner of three horses. 

Retirement has presented opportunities for her to give back to her Community through her horses.  Mr Kool, a handsome German Warmblood, has been a part of San Diego Therapeutic Horsemanship for Veterans and children, where Vickie also volunteers weekly. Hershey Kiss, an adorable miniature horse and Vickie have been trained in equine therapy. They visit nursing homes, Hospice patients, libraries and schools bringing joy and healing to everyone they meet.  In his free time, you can find Hershey proudly pulling a mini cart!  Valor, a very precocious colt is in the process of learning his ground manners, and in a few years will hopefully be trained  for therapy work as well.

Vickie has served on the TRVEA board since 2017 and is proud to lead an organization that is passionate about preserving the trails for equestrians in the valley. 
Vicki Krauss
VICE-PRESIDENT
​ Vicki has had a passion for horses even before she can remember. Her parents told her that, when on outings to the countryside from New York City, she would get very excited seeing horses even before she could talk.

From a pony ride she went on to many years of riding lessons and finally to a career as a trainer and teacher. She still takes lessons herself, working with renown masters of Classical Horsemanship from Germany and Portugal.

She also provides natural hoof care and bodywork for horses.  She truly enjoys helping all kinds of people and their horses create meaningful relationships  that work.
 
"There are only two kinds of horsemanship, sound horsemanship or poor horsemanship."
Amy Wandel
SECRETARY
Bio coming soon...
John Gabaldon
TREASURER
I fell in love with the Tijuana River Valley in 1996 when my wife returned to riding horses. And then I fell in love with horsemanship, trail riding, and the Peruvian breed.

I joined TRVEA in 2002 and became a Valley activist.

​Now through horses and TRVEA, I work with terrific people throughout the horse community, and serve on TRVEA's Board of Directors and in officer positions.
Emma Reese
TRAILS COORDINATOR
Emma grew up in the TRV. The entire trail system was her backyard, even before it  was an organized trail system. She is an avid hiker and equestrian.

Emma owns two very special horses, Jenny and Cali. Jenny, is a sweet Norwegian Fjord that was rescued from the Premarin industry. Jenny volunteers with TRVEA on a regular basis. She assists Emma with trail maintenance and is also Emma's partner in MAU for the State and County Park system.

Jenny is also ridden weekly by Veterans in the San Diego Therapeutic Horsemanship program, so this amazing horse truly earns her keep!

Cali is a beautiful BLM Mustang who was captured in Utah. She is coming along nicely in her training and will hopefully follow in Jenny's hoof prints one day.

Emma is very passionate about keeping all of our trails open and maintained. She works closely with the many different agencies we have here in the TRV:
  • Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve
  • TRNERR - Member
  • TRNERR Trails - Member
  • Otay Valley Regional Park
  • Citizens Advisory Committee
  • OVRP-CAC. - Board Member
  • OVRP-PC. - Member
  • Tijuana River Action Network
  • TRAN - Member
  • County Parks and State Parks Mounted Assistance Unit
Mary Powell
SPECIAL EVENTS COORDINATOR
Mary Johnson Powell is a horse girl, no two ways about it. Take it from her husband (writing here) who knows a thing or two about cleaning corrals, a high skill operation with evasion metrics, especially if a horse tries to walk over you.

I met Mary over forty years ago and quickly learned she has loved horses forever. In her Chula Vista childhood, she taught herself to draw horses, a skill that helped years later when she designed the TRVEA logo.

Reading every horse book in the children’s library sharpened her writing ability: as a teenager she won a Morgan horse in an essay contest. Grown-up Mary worked so hard for 20 years she didn’t have time for horses while creating a successful business making animal hand puppets and selling them nationally.

When imports made business impractical, Mary and I were ready for horses.  She quickly acquired 2 mares; one was pregnant. Now our herd of 6 elderly, gaited equines lives happily at Suncoast Farms. Galatea, the sentinel grey horse, greets our arrival each day with a long and very loud whinny. 

She is passionately devoted to cleaning up pollution in the TRV and is TRVEA’s rep to TRVRT and the IBWC Citizen’s Forum. To these groups she brings an environmentalism that sees horses as valuable participants on public lands envisioning the Western ideal of free and open space, cooperating people, and 'happy trails'. 
Mary Christensen
YOUTH COORDINATOR
Bio coming soon...
Bequi Brown
YOUTH COORDINATOR
Bio coming soon...
Karen Solorzano
MEMBER AT-LARGE
Bio coming soon...
Kay McCauley
MEMBER AT-LARGE
Bio coming soon...
Chardae Jones
WebSITE ADMINISTRATOR
Inheriting the love of horses from both her mother and her aunt, Chardae joined the United States Pony Club at the age 9 and has since dabbled in a variety of disciplines; from western pleasure to team penning to foxhunting and hunter/jumper.

While attending the University of California, Davis, she participated on and served as the President of the 3-Day Event Team.

Today, she rides dressage and 3-day eventing and enjoys competing every so often. When not schooling dressage or jumping, she enjoys trail riding around the TRV with Indominus Rex, her much-beloved  Holsteiner/Thoroughbred cross.

Chardae joined TRVEA in January 2019 and manages the website.
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