Call to Order

The meeting was called to order by president, Rick Pudwill, at 12:30 PM in Parkston, S.D. Board Members present were Connie Thury, John Kangas, Kari Nornes, and DeeAnn Lovett. Lunch was served by Connie, which included fresh bakery bread and homemade kuchen.

Minutes Minutes were approved from the last Board Meeting held on April 5, 2006.

Treasurer's Report

John Kangas presented the Treasurer's Report. The current balance is $3,359.86. The CD has been renewed for another 6 months with Cor Trust Bank. There is now a Siouxland Chapter CLMA Corporate Credit Card. John has the Pin Number which will be kept with the Treasurer's materials.

Old Business

Siouxland Chapter Website Updates

Rick will contact Tom Schnabel of the LCM Pathology Group regarding being a vender sponsor. The Siouxland Chapter Website Calendar needs more postings. The Board Meetings and events such as Lab Week information could be added.

Membership Statistics

Renewal of members was discussed. Rick reported that there were 8 renewals and l new member, which is Angie Petrik from Platte, S. D. The Siouxland Chapter now has 45 members. Letters were signed by the CLMA Board Members for the renewal members and Angie.

Lapsed memberships were discussed, also. Kari Nornes made a motion that Rick send the lapsed members e-mails which include a CLMA Application and a survey as to why they didn't renew their memberships. John Kangas seconded this motion. Rick will write the e-mail and copy it to the Board Members.

Siouxland Chapter Year end Requirements

These have been completed and have been sent to National. The Bylaws have been added to the Siouxland Chapter Website.

New Business

Develop Chapter Advocate Guidelines

Terry Erickson, Siouxland Chapter Advocate, e-mailed Rick Pudwill some basic guidelines which included: PAC, Contributions, Advocacy for Lab Members, and Advocacy in Newsletters.

Dianne Dell had asked Rick to have a discussion regarding Competitive Bidding at the Fall Meeting. Rick asked Terry Erickson to prepare some information for the Chapter Meeting.

Fundraising

The 50/50 Raffle raised $137.00. This will be used towards the purchase of the CLMA table cloth for conventions. Rick ordered the table cloth from Lea Owens of National CLMA. Karen Jeppersen sent her the pdf file for the Siouxland Chapter Logo of the windmill, so the windmill “might” be on the table cloth. The table cloth should be available for the SDAHO Meeting in September. The National CLMA Display will be available for the SDAHO and ASCLS/CLMA Fall Meeting. There is a nominal fee for the use of the display.

State Fair Cancer Booth

The State Fair is only five days this year. The PSA Cancer Booth will run from August 31 through Labor Day, September 4. Melanie Hunhoff from Senator Tim Johnson's Office in Sioux Falls is in charge of the booth.

SDAHO Meeting

The SDAHO Meeting will be Sioux Falls September 20, 21, 22.

ASCLS/CLMA Fall Meeting

The meeting will be held in Sioux Falls October 4-6 at the Ramkota. A Fundraiser for Connie Thury was discussed for this meeting.

Board Meetings

Rick expressed the need to have a Board Meeting before the Chapter Meeting at the Fall Meeting. The meeting will be will be at the SDAHO Meeting on Thursday, September 21st at 3PM. There will not be a CLMA Chapter Meeting at the SDAHO Meeting as listed in the brochure.

The final Board Meeting for 2006 will be December 6th at Noon (Brown Bag) in Sioux Falls.

Miscellaneous Topics

There needs to be an election of the President Elect and Treasurer. The Board Members should talk to members that would be willing to be an officer before the September Board Meeting.

The Leadership Award was discussed. Rick nominated Karen Jeppersen. DeeAnn seconded the nomination.

Amanda Poole sent Rick an e-mail regarding the possibility of the Siouxland Chapter having a SmartLab 4-hour workshop. This could be scheduled into 2007. The cost for the Chapter would include travel cost for the speaker and meeting room. This idea was well received by the Board Members. There will be a follow-up discussion at the next meeting.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at~ 2:15 PM.
DeeAnn Lovett, Secretary