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CLMA Siouxland Chapter Meeting
The meeting was called to order by Kari Nornes at 2:20 pm in Sioux Falls (Sheraton) with 24 members present. Those present included Carmelle Miller, Connie Thury, Diane Dell, Deb Piper, Kathy Winter, Twila Henning, Karen Jepperson, Rick Pudwill, DeeAnn Lovett, Kathy Zirpel, Kay Knoblock, Kari Nornes, Mike Dott, Jill Hanley, Patty Buus, Wanda Dally, Erica Boltjes, Allen Miller, Max Anderson, Sharon DeHaan, Roberta Kaffa, John Kangas, Mel Heinz.
Minutes from the May 8, 2003 meeting were approved.
Larry Weaver (in absentia) reported a balance of $ 3,682.36 in our checking account. Our CD is due 10-1-.03 with a value of $5,727.30. We may consider a different bond or CD with better rate than the current .95% ATY. We will have Larry check into that.
CLMA Management Award, presented at SDAHO
Congratulations to John Kangas for receiving the SDAHO CLMA Siouxland Management award this year!
National Chapter Member Award
Congratulations to Twila Henning for receiving the National Chapter Member Award this year at the National CLMA convention! We celebrated with cake for her.
Siouxland Chapter Web-site
Please encourage new vendors to sponsor our Web-site. There is a template letter on the web-site that can be customized with your name and addressed to any vendor. Our current vendor contracts provide $1287.00 income for our chapter.
Membership statistics
Our total membership for the chapter is 57, with 4 memberships gained and 4 memberships lost since our last meeting. Board members contact lost members to follow up and encourage them to renew membership. National CLMA is having a Chapter membership Drive from September 1 – October 31, 2003, with awards for chapters with most new members. Please try to encourage new members to join.
Surveys
Siouxland Chapter Needs Assessment Survey results from April 2003 were shared and discussed.
Kari also reviewed results from the National CLMA Survey.
ASCLS/CLMA Joint Contract for the Spring Convention
A task force of Jill Hanley, Rick Pudwill, and Kari Nornes met with representatives from SDSCLS to update our contract for co-sponsorship of the Spring meeting. CLMA wanted to be able to participate more in the meeting and update our current 10% of the profit from the seminar to 50%. ASCLS said they were concerned because they spend $4000 for scholarships from that meeting and did not want to lose the revenue. We offered to jointly sponsor the scholarships and add an additional scholarship and then split the profits from the meeting after scholarship money had been paid.
However, the proposal received back from SDSCLS has suggested our profit go to 20% with no mention of the scholarships, but we will be responsible for 20% of the program. The Board will review the contract and return it with revisions to the SDSCLS group to sign. We hope this will be effective for the Huron meeting in May, 2004.
It was suggested that perhaps any extra revenue we generate from the change could be used to send a CLMA member to the Legislative Symposium in March in Washington DC.
CAC
Twila updated information on the CAC Committee. The new medical director is George Waldman. They are trying to be able to have meetings available for people to call in and listen to the CAC meetings.
We need to have a member as an alternate for the committee from our Chapter. The new LMRP they are looking at is H. pylori.
Political Action
Twila talked about how we need to become more visible in the state and have more people aware of what and who we are. Senator Johnson has said he will meet with us whenever he is here.
Also, in the past we have helped draw PSAs and hand out occult blood kits at the State Fair in Huron. We need more volunteers for this to help promote our profession. Try to plan to help with it (over Labor Day next year). We need to talk with Barbara Johnson about it.
Nominations
Nominations for Board Member and Secretary were accepted (Jill Hanley 2-year term on Board is ending December 31 and Karen Jepperson, Secretary, term is ending December 31, 2003).
Board Member Nominations:
Secretary Nominations:
- Kathy Winter, Karen Jepperson
Members will be sent ballots to vote and they can be returned to Kari Nornes.
CLMA Online Career Center
Kari reminded us that the CLMA Online Career Center is available on the national web-site to post resumes and search for a job.
Laboratory Co-Payment
Kari went to a town meeting presented by Tom Daschle and asked him about the chance of the laboratory co-payment staying on the bill. He said it is probably a 50/50 chance. We need to encourage everyone to send letters to Congressmen regarding this issue. Particularly, find out who is supporting the bill (e.g.,Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa) and write to them. Kari will contact Kathy Ahyres about contacting them because it is sometimes not possible to link to those senators outside of the state where you reside.
CLMA Political Action Committee support—you can send in contributions. We have forms if you want to contribute to it.
We did not have time to have breakout sessions, but we all need to think about future educational topic ideas, how can we recruit new members and maintain current membership, and how we can raise more revenue for the chapter.
It was suggested that for our December (or whatever date is decided) educational meeting we have Senator Grassley to come to the meeting. Kathy Winter will check with him to see when and if he could be here. We will also check to see if we can get a representative from National CLMA to come talk.
Next meeting
Our next meeting will be held at the December meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 3:40 p.m.
Karen Jepperson, Secretary |
