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Board Meeting Minutes - April 15, 1999

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Meeting called to order at 9:20 AM

ATTENDEES: Marcia Aamodt, Gail Koch, Linda Obertin, Denice McMahon, Ann Johnson, Robin Malik-Swisher, Jerry Gunderson

Absent: Nancy Johnson, Rick Seifert

 

President – Marcia Aamodt
bulletTurned a letter from the National APA over to Ann Johnson. Letter is requesting photos for the National Payroll Week in the year 2000 – March 28, 1999.
bulletAlso provided information on Fax on Demand – number will be published in Newsletter by Ann Johnson.
bulletMarcia reminded everyone that we had appointments at the Metropolitan on 394/100 at 10:30 am today, as well as the Radisson South following that appointment to identify a new location. We do not have a site after the May membership meeting.

 

Vice President – Linda Obertin
bulletLinda turned over the Scholarship Survey to Ann Johnson for inclusion in the next Newsletter and to be placed on the Web site.

 

Secretary – Robin Malik-Swisher
bulletRobin will start including her e-mail address on the Registration Form in case members have scanning capabilities and wish to e-mail the forms.
bulletReminder that we need to exchange Jerry Hennek’s name on all Board lists to Rick Seifert for the position of Treasurer.
bulletE-mail addresses for Board members will be in next Newsletter. Please get any corrections to Ann Johnson if the master list is incorrect.
bulletSurvey – we reviewed the survey in great detail and indicated we would mail it out with the next Newsletter/Registration Form – options for returning the survey are: bring to the meeting, e-mail if they have scanning capabilities, fax or use post office.
bulletWe discussed in detail the use of the Web site for registration – putting form out there for response might help speed up this process. We have had complaints from our members the last couple of months regarding the late arrival of the registration information.
bulletWe discussed in detail the possibility of hiring a service for the administrative duties, mailings, etc. Linda Obertin and Robin Malik-Swisher will take on the research responsibilities.
bulletIt was suggested that we pre-print receipts on NCR paper – Rick Seifert will do research regarding the feasibility of this change.

 

Membership – Gail Koch
bulletThe final page of the survey will include update information for the membership directory.
bulletDistribution of this directory would be this fall via Web Site, diskette, e-mail, etc. based on the responses in the survey.
bulletWe will need help with this process and this could be another responsibility the service could provide.

 

Program Chair – Jerry Gunderson
bulletMay FLS – Multi-State Taxation
bulletJuneExempt, Non-Exempt Employee Classification
bulletJuly
bulletAugust
bulletSeptemberAnnual Conference – Convention Center
bulletOctober˝ Day for Preparing for Year End
bulletNovemberRecords Retention
bulletDecemberPersonal Financial Planning

We discussed that some of the Board positions will be reaching the end of the two year commitment. Marcia Aamodt asked if anyone was interested in moving to another position.

Openings:
bulletMembership
bulletSecretary
bulletTreasurer
bulletConference
bulletVice President
bulletProgram Chair

bulletRobin Malik-Swisher indicated interest in the Vice President position.
bulletJerry Gunderson expressed interest in Treasurer or Government Liaison.
bulletGail Koch will be leaving Membership and not moving on to another position at this time.
bulletDenice McMahon expressed interest in the Vice President position or Web Site administration.
bulletNancy Johnson is interested in Conference Chair.

It was decided we would put the openings in the next Newsletter to open up interest within the Membership first.

Meeting adjourned at 10:10 a.m.

Submitted by:
Robin Malik-Swisher, CPP
Secretary – Northstar Chapter of APA

 

 

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