President - Marcia Aamodt

	Marcia identified those members that will need name tags ordered. They are: Gail Koch, Jerry Gunderson, Denice McMahon, Nancy Johnson and Marcia Aamodt.
	Marcia handed out the updated address list for the 1998-1999 Board Members. Several members had corrections and provided their e-mail address as well. A new list will be mailed to each member.
	A recap of the Board Meeting at Ruttgers from 10/2-10/4/98 will be mailed out in the next couple of weeks. Tentative agenda follows: Friday NightSocial Hour/Dinner Sat MorningMeeting - 9:00am to 1:00pm Sun MorningMeeting - 8:00am to noon Brunch12:30 pm

Vice President - Linda Obertin

	Linda gave an update on the Conference. Current we have 150-160 people attending. Diane Berg has changed jobs and is the contact for mailing in the registration. However, she is still going back to pick up her mail.
	Linda asked Marcia if she would be willing to handle the National/State update and introduce the speakers - Marcia agreed to handle that assignment.
	The Assistant Commissioner from the Department of Revenue will be the guest speaker. It was agreed that we would order plaques for those in attendance only, rather than all dignitaries that were invited.
	We will need volunteers - several of the Board members offered to assist on Wednesday evening to put conference books together, etc.
	The Proclamation is in process.

Treasurer - Jerry Hennek

Jerry reviewed the financial status for Conference - we currently have a balance in our account of $44,000.00 as of today with no expenses paid out for the conference. Average balance is $20,000.00 which is very good.

Membership - Gail Koch

	Gail will be meeting with Madeline Branum to get the software required to track membership.
	Gail had a suggestion for networking. If anyone has a question that they would like input from other members, they should bring the question typed up on paper and distributed on all of the tables requesting how they handle the situation and then that party would be responsible for collecting them at the end of the meeting. Gail will bring up at the October Membership Meeting to get the process started. We will also include in the Newsletter.
	It is time to reorder more Membership Registration Forms. Jerry indicated he was running low. Gail will check with Madeline on how to place the order and what supply she currently has on hand.

Program Chair - Jerry Gunderson

	Reviewed the evaluations from the meeting. All ratings were 3s and 4s. There was one suggestion for a future meeting topic on multi-state taxation.
	Jerry indicated that our October Meeting topic would be ACH and Fred Lang would probably be our speaker.
	For the November meeting, it was suggested that we cover 1999 Tax Law Changes. It was recommended that we contact Patty Lake and invite her to speak at our meeting.
	December will probably be a developmental session due to the busy time of the year.
	Jerry Hennek asked if there are any speaker certificates still available from the National APA that were awarded to us for Chapter of the Year. Jerry Gunderson will look into it.

Secretary - Robin Malik-Swisher

Marcia Aamodt indicated that we have been able to make initial contact with the Doubletree by the Mall of America for October, 1998 through 1999 meeting dates. They are offering a full breakfast at $10.75 with no room rental fee. Nancy Solinger is the Catering Manager. Marcia will contact Robin when she hears everything is ready for contract signing so we can notify the membership of the change in location beginning with the October 15, 1998 meeting.

We discussed that participation has been down for the past three meetings. We are not certain if it is the location, topics or that everyone is very busy in their positions. We discussed if it would make sense to go to every-other-month meetings or perhaps even quarterly with a longer meeting time and perhaps multiple speakers. Other organizations have done that, but if you miss a quarterly meeting then it is six months between meetings. We do not want to jeopardize our Chapter of the Year participation and want to continue to be an active chapter that offers lots of educational opportunities for our members. We decided to hold off on a decision and wait to see what the October participation looks like when we move to a southern location.

Other Business

	Linda showed us samples of the Certificates she prepared for our Scholarship Winners. She has purchased software that will make this process very efficient. Many choices of verbage and style.
	We discussed that maybe we should present these certificates to our volunteers at the October Meeting. Board members should submit names to Linda Obertin for individuals who should be recognized.