Congratulations to Eleanor Falk who has been
selected to fill the Government Liaison position.
Members voted at the September meeting.
Eleanor is currently employed at ADP as a Senior Systems
Consultant. She will be
a wonderful addition to the board!
The other board positions that are open are the
Conference Chair, and the Communications Director.
The Conference Chairperson is responsible for organizing the
annual conference and having CPP certificates available at monthly
meetings. The
Communications Director will oversee other committee members who
will be responsible for National Payroll Week, Chapter of the Year,
the Web Site, and the Newsletter.
If anyone is interested in any of these positions, please
contact a board member.
Marge volunteered to help out with CPP
certificates until a Conference Chairperson is found.
Thank you Marge!
The board discussed having a one day Education
Session in April or May, 2000 at the Metropolitan.
The theme of Global Payroll was discussed. More information to follow.
Denice mentioned that she had been contacted by
a member of IHRIM to have a joint conference with their group next
fall 2001. The board
decided to proceed with discussions with IHRIM.
It was also discussed that conference meetings could be held
after Monthly meetings to attract more volunteers.
October’s meeting topic will be Project
Management. Topics for
other meetings were mentioned.
Those recommended were:
Professional Development, Data Warehousing, Unemployment,
Child Support/Garnishments, and Retirement Plans.
The Northstar Chapter’s Scholarship winner
will be announced at October’s meeting.
The new web site has been completed and was
upgraded to Front Page 2000.
The site looks great! Thank
you Joel Baglien & Denice.
Joel graciously did much work for the Chapter for free!
Members were asked to thank Joel by responding from the web
page.
Robin brought up that the Northstar Chapter
will need to re-apply for affiliation with National which is due
October 6, 2000.
Robin will announce at October’s meeting that
the Chapter would like to take advantage of technology by having
board members register for meetings on the web and either eliminate
or greatly reduce the number of registrations that are mailed out
monthly.
The board will have an outing to Old Log
Theater on October 14th.