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Executive Board Meeting February 17, 2006
Present: Sheila Blevins Rick Hughes Jesse Cooper Larry Sayers Liz Hunt Mary Dysinger-Franklin
Called to order at 11:05
Larry Sayers – Invitation from Anna Holmes, San Diego for early May CA State Training Conference for the AZ Executive Committee to sit down and talk about the challenges both chapters are facing. Anna is interested in sitting down on May 2nd in the evening. One challenge is the re-banding and Mexican Border issues. They have some other issues to talk about as well. In September 2005, AZ, CA and NEXTEL met to formulate some common comments to the FCC. The FCC is looking for those comments to make recommendations to the State Department to make a treaty with Mexico. Without a treaty, the Border re-banding will not happen.
Larry will follow up on the costs for a committee to travel to the conference. The conference will be held in the Ontario area. If we are unable to travel, would the CA chapter be open to a conference call? Larry Sayers will research the options and make a presentation to the General Meeting in March for a vote by the Chapter. Information regarding the CA conference can be found at www.CPRA.org.
The State Training Conference was a good success. The chapters shall split the proceeds 50/50. Both Chapters put $2,500 seed money up for the conference, so the proceeds, minus the seed money will be split 50/50 by the chapters. The Final State Training Conference Report will be presented at the March 10, 2006 General Meeting.
While preparing for the Training Conference, we discovered a box of Grey Henley t-shirts with the APCO/NENA logo. All of the shirts are size Medium. Since we have had the shirts for some time and they are all sized Medium, Sheila asked if we could donate them to the victims of Katrina. Sheila will research through the Sunshine Fund of APCO and 911 Cares to see which organization could best use the donation. The report will be provided at the General Meeting in March.
The discussion occurred regarding nominations for the anticipated Board vacancies for each chapter. The nominations must be announced at the March meeting and then posted to the website following the meeting in order to have a Chapter vote in June. Mary will put the information on the postcards regarding the openings and specific information will be added to the website. It has customarily been the past presidents for each chapter who have handled nominations. For NENA that would be Anita Velasco and since APCO does not have an immediate past president, the Board agreed upon Executive Council Representative, Pat Joy. Nominations for each chapter will go to those representatives, respectively. The anticipated openings for APCO: Vice President Member At Large Professional Development
The anticipated openings for NENA: 2nd Vice President Treasurer
The meeting was adjourned at 11:37
Respectively submitted, Sheila Blevins APCO Secretary
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