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NEBRASKA SOCIETY FOR RESPIRATORY CARE BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING May 14th, 2008 Divot's Conference Center, Norfolk, NE The meeting was called to order by President Bruce Campbell at 08:00 AM. The agenda was presented and reviewed by Bruce. ROLL CALL - MEMBERS PRESENT: Bruce Campbell, President Darcy O’Brien-Genrich, President Elect Jeff Shelton – Upcoming President Elect Candy Ryan, Vice President Jill Sand, Vice President Elect Mike Twait, Secretary Linda Nelson – Upcoming Secretary Dave Patterson, Treasurer Jeff Gonzalez, Delegate John Jarosz – Upcoming Delegate Jenny Bush, Delegate Bill Bonner, Board of Directors Tim Kelly, Board of Directors Absent: Keith Luedders, Board of Directors Charlotte Pasco – Upcoming Vice President Elect Nancy Nathenson – Upcoming Board of Directors Shannon Zinnel, Membership Committee Chair Christie Lebsack, Election Chair Megan Lofgren, Nominations Chair Kathy Geier-Craft, Public Relations Chair Sheri Trindle, Publications Chair Jane Matsui, Summit Award Chair MINUTES: Mike reported. The minutes from the January 18th, 2008 BOD meetings were reviewed by the BOD. Candy made a motion to approve the January18th minutes, motion was seconded by Jenny, motion passed. Introductions New Board Members: Bruce introduced the new elected board members to the group: Darcy O’Brien-Genrich (President Elect) she will be replacing Bruce Campbell, Jill Sands (Vice President Elect) she will be replacing Candy Ryan, Jeff Shelton – upcoming President elect, Charlotte Pasco – upcoming Vice President elect, Linda Nelson (upcoming Secretary) – she will be replacing Mike Twait, John Jarosz (upcoming Delegate) – he will be replacing Jeff Gonzalez, and Nancy Nathenson (upcoming Board of Directors) – she will be replacing Keith Luedders. All of the new board member positions will become active starting on May 16th, 2008 at noon. Treasures Report Dave reported Dave stated that all our expenses are all in line. Dave added that our only expenses have been our lobbing fees. Dave stated that our Certificate of Deposit will be coming up for renewal next week. Dave suggested that we consider leaving it where it is now instead of moving it out of the money market for now, the board agreed. Mike made a motion to approve the treasure’s report, Candy seconded, motion passed. Program Committee Candy inquired if the board would be interested in raffling a voucher at our booth in the vendor hall? After discussion by the board Jenny made a motion that the NSRC gives a voucher to raffle off as a door prize, motion was seconded by Dave, motion approved. Candy inquired if we were also going to have a drawing for a door prize of paying the registration fee for one member to attend the National AARC meeting? Jeff added that what we have done in the past is pull two names, one as the winner and the second as the back up in case the winner is unable to attend. In addition, Jeff stated that the winner and runner up can not substitute another member for them. The winner or the runner up would also have a deadline to register for the AARC meeting so the money used for the registration fee is not lost. Dave made a motion to have the door prize from the booth be the registration to National Convention to one member or alternate. Jenny seconded and the motion passed. The board agreed to have a door prize of one paid registration fee to the AARC meeting. Bruce inquired if all four respiratory schools had sent us their winners for the scholarship. Candy stated that she has received the student names from all the schools. Candy discussed that the conference T-shirts are ready to go and that Jill would be bringing them to our booth at the vendor fair hall. Candy also mentioned that Respironics would be sponsoring the entertainment for Thursday night. Candy stated that Jill’s students will be helping with registration and instruction regarding current membership will be provided. Application will be available at the registration desk for new membership. Candy had about 3-4 registrants that were interested in purchasing memberships. Jeff G. will be taking responsibility for getting the money to the AARC and he has 12 vouchers left to be used at the conference. Bruce inquired how many conference registrants she had received. Candy stated that the total count of registrants for the meeting was around 200. Candy made vendor hall tickets for those who would be attending the managers reception in the vendor hall. Jeff G. inquired about returned vendor letters, if there were any this year. Darcy suggested getting a business card from this years participants to update the vendor list with current names and addresses and then the names can be cross referenced with the current excel spreadsheet. Discussion was held regarding a vendor drawing or best booth decoration that followed the conference theme and giving the winner a free space at next year’s conference. Discussion was held but no consensus was reached at this time. Membership Committee Bruce stated that his earlier membership report of active members from June 2007 was 451 and that his latest report from March 2008 listed 507 active members. Jeff discussed that this large of increase in members was due to new student members since they receive their membership for free. In the state of NE there are just under 1400 therapists. Promotion of new membership has got to be a priority. Darcy received some great membership recruiting ideas from the Texas leadership meeting that she will be sharing with the group in the future. Judicial Chair / PACT Darcy discussed their trip to DC stating that she and Jeff Shelton had a successful meeting with their elected officials. Darcy mentioned that they had met with both Lee Terry and Adrian Smith. Both of the Congressmen showed interest in the RT initiative. Darcy and Jeff were unable to meet with Congressman Fortenberry due to neither one of them being a constituent from his area. The new RT initiative allows for therapists to do smoking cessation outside of the clinic and not being directly supervised. Jeff added that Cheryl West pointed out that you can bring the specific initiatives to your staff member’s attention and have them read the information. If they support it, they can sign their name and you can send the letter for them. This would allow staff to support the issues with your help. Bylaws Keith not present. Jeff reported that the bylaws are ready to print and that the mailing of them to active NSRC members is tentatively set for later next week. Publications Sheri not present. Jeff suggested adding a disclaimer that the pictures used within the spot light are shown with the permission from that hospital. The board agreed to add the disclaimer to the website. Summit Award Bruce reported that Jane Matsui had submitted the Summit Award and did a very nice job. Bruce stated that he would add more about the award during his report at the conference. The meeting was adjourned at 0925 Respectfully submitted by Mike Twait, NSRC Secretary/Linda Nelson, NSRC Secretary elect.
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