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CALL TO ORDER

The Siouxland Chapter Board Meeting of CLMA was called to order by president, Kathy Winter, at 10:25 AM at Avera Health in Sioux Falls, S.D. Board Members present included Bev Ulmer, DeeAnn Lovett, John Kangas, Owen Bain, and Rick Pudwill.

MINUTES

Minutes were approved from the January 22, 2008 Board Meeting. The motion was made by Bev and seconded by Owen.

TREASURER’S REPORT

John gave the Treasurer’s report. The amount of $3782.79 is in the Treasury at this time. The report was approved. Since Think Lab 2008 was cancelled, the registration fee can be rolled over to Think Lab 2009. Kathy hasn’t received an e-mail to do this at this time.

OLD BUSINESS

Membership Statistics
Our current membership is holding steady at 40 members.

Spring 2008 One Day Spring Meeting
The Spring Chapter Meeting was held March 26, 2008 at the Ramada Inn in Sioux Falls. We had $650.00 towards registration with our cost being $994.19. DeeAnn will contact Jeff Kistler from Cardinal Health regarding the breakfast cost reimbursement.

2008 ASCLS/CLMA Joint Meeting
The meeting will start on Monday, October 6th at Noon and run through Wednesday afternoon. The Vendor Night would be Tuesday evening. We will hold our chapter meeting at that convention. Kathy reported that Siemens would be having at least 3 speakers at the Joint Meeting. Owen suggested having a representative from the Iowa State Health Lab who would address the neonatal testing. Kathy will contact the lab at the Iowa State Department of Health.
Kathy will visit further with Lori Murray regarding the 80/20 split the CLMA-Siouxland Chapter receives from the Joint Meetings with ASCLS-SD.

Web Page
New sponsors for the website are LCM Pathologists, Kreisers, Quest Diagnostics, and PL. DeeAnn has a lead on a potential new webmaster. She will contact him for a commitment.

Competitive Bidding
An injunction has been handed down by the judge in California in favor of the laboratories.

Scope of Practice
This was not discussed at the chapter meeting on March 26th. Kathy will put it on the agenda for the chapter meeting at the ASCLS-SD/CLMA Convention in October.

NEW BUSINESS

Review By-Laws
After reviewing the By-Laws, the CLMA-Siouxland Chapter can vote for officers and board members electronically (the nominating committee will consist of past president, board member, and a chapter member), and can hold 2 educational sessions and 2 chapter meetings per year. Also, the board members need to be notified of the board meetings 15 days prior to the meeting. Our meetings are scheduled at the beginning of the year and notice given if changes occur.

We do, however, need to have three board members. John made a motion to allow the president, Kathy Winter, to appoint a third board member to fill the vacancy for the rest of 2008. Owen seconded the motion, and all were in favor. (Update: Kathy has appointed Kari Nornes to fill the vacancy until the end of 2008). DeeAnn made a motion to extend by 1 year the current two board members holding that position. John seconded the motion, and all were in favor.

Bev made a motion to send the completed by-laws to National CLMA. John seconded the motion and all were in favor.

Review Chapter Affiliation Agreement
The CLMA-Siouxland Chapter is incorporated and has been since 1985.

GPS Liaison Position
Patty Buus has agreed to be the GPS Liaison for the CLMA Siouxland Chapter.

SDAHO
The SDAHO Convention is in Rapid City from September 24th through September 26th. The Rushmore Plaza Civic Center will host the convention. Hopefully, we can get a local speaker for the Lab portion of the convention. Karen Jeppersen is contacting Al Reuer, Sanford Laboratories Rapid City, for suggestions

2008 Board Meetings
The Schedule for the last 2008 Board Meetings are as follows:
July 24, 2008 Noon
December 11, 2008 Noon

Adjournment
The meeting was motioned for adjournment by Owen and seconded by Bev. The meeting was adjourned at ~ 11:15 AM.

DeeAnn M. Lovett, Secretary