Members present: Cathy Dodson, Allison McClane, Debbie Tombs, Joan Jahraus, Jeanne Ronk, Shanna Mosher, Bill Smiley, Heather Blyth-Foss, and Darlene Buckley.
Meeting called to order at 0909.
Motion to conduct PNWSGNA board meetings for the next year at Valley Medical Center approved and seconded.
Jeanne:
Directors-at-large contacted and e-mailed.Sheryl to send out letter to vendors in early 2005 to inform them of all conferences for the year.Handed over the president notebook to President-elect Debbie.Goodbye and thanks to Cathy Dodson. Suggested PNWSGNA to sponsor a certification prep course, possibly in June 2005.
Debbie:
Discussed leadership conference she attended and indicated a need to send more than one member to next year’s conference. Expressed need for a PNWSGNA budget for 2005. Vendors must be contacted early in the year in order for them to budget for conferences, etc. Vendors to sponsor an evening session at the Fall conference. Boston Scientific is committed to a Friday night session and four Saturday afternoon breakout sessions. They also will sponsor the pamphlets at the conference. Would like to get a sponsor to pay for the lunches at the conference. Conference will be held in the Seattle/ Bellevue area. DDW- Seattle conference to be scheduled in early October; informed them of PNWSGNA Fall conference date. Discussion of conference prices and honorariums. Copies of board meeting dates for 2005 given to all board members.
Certification exam10/16/05
Fall conference10/15/05
Fall conference committee co-chairs are Debbie, Shanna, Darlene, and Heather.
Allison:
Packet and letter to be sent to endo suites/ clinics in the Pacific Northwest area regarding membership. Discussed possibility of sending them a newsletter with a membership form enclosed.
Joan:
Kayla Shulenberger to donate $300.00 per year to the Betty Shulenberger scholarship fund. Thank you to be sent. Discussed scholarship form revision- copies given to each board member to review and discuss at January meeting. Suggestions to define the number of scholarships, amounts of scholarships, and possible initiation of an education fund. One source of funding for education fund would be honorariums that are returned. New position of education fund board chair member nominated and seconded.
Cathi:
Fall conference notebooks to be copied.
Bill:
$2,700.00 spent on website this year. Olympus to give $1,000.00 to PNWSGNA for website. Editing software (extra cost of $30.00/ month) could be used by Bill to make minor changes to website; will try out for a limited time. Need to edit front page of website and make site user and vendor friendly. New ideas: streaming video, vendor page, search engines, and tech corner. Does PNWSGNA need a tech position on the board? Kelly Anderson from Valley Medical could be a possible candidate. Bill needs more feedback from board members regarding upcoming events. A new scholarship is available through SGNA for new members. The PNWSGNA website is now on the national SGNA website. Vendors must be updated on website. Deadline to submit a scholarship is March 4, 2005. Board photos to be taken at January meeting.
Darlene:
List circulated to update e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and other board member information.
Shanna:
Check received from SGNA for dues. Updated board members on scholarship funds.
Checking account:$12,011.07
Savings account:$14,100.07
CD account:$12,209.40
New board members:
Sponsor coordinator: Marianne Houlne to mentor with Sheryl.
Membership co-chair: Sylvia Croy.
Debbie:
Need to update structure and governance (policies and procedures) and need updated bylaws. To be discussed at upcoming board meetings.
Next board meeting is Saturday, January 22, 2005 at Valley Internal Medicine.
