Board of Director Meeting Minutes 04/22/08
Frontier Human Resource Association
Minutes of Board Meeting
April 22, 2008
The meeting came to order at 11:35 a.m. in Room 208 of the Municipal Building, 2101 O’Neil Avenue.
Four members were present at the meeting: Judi Just, President; Andrea Hixon, Secretary; Rebecca Spitsbergen, Treasurer; Renee Ashworth, Membership Committee.
President Elect Report-Nancy Thayer
No President Elect Report.
Secretary Report-Andrea Hixon
Andrea gave Rebecca checks/cash from the April FHRA monthly meeting. Andrea also distributed new membership applications and payments to Rebecca.
Andrea invoiced the following for No Shows/No Payment for the April meeting:
University of Phoenix Trina Mosalik (4)
Marla Lewis
Kathy Kellner
Dave Monjaras
Becki Hunter
Andrea will send out an Email blast of the Benefits of Membership to the Members at Large
Membership Report-Veronica Pedersen
Veronica Pedersen was unable to attend the Board Meeting.
Alethea Wright with Bresnan Communications and Deb Mutter with Laramie County Government became new members this month.
Renee will network with Veronica to contact (personal phone call) members who haven’t rejoined the chapter and explore “Why” they aren’t rejoining. Last year, the membership total was 62 and so far this year we have 38 members. The Board mentioned that if the Membership Committee needs assistance then just let us know.
Seminar
The Board discussed the Seminar in much detail since only 5 attendees are currently signed up for the May Seminar.
Judi will contact Angi with the Chamber of Commerce to request placing information on the seminar on the Chamber’s website. Also, the Board discussed a special price for Chamber members at $39. Judi already sent out an email blast to the City of Cheyenne.
Andrea will check on prices for Radio and newspaper advertisements.
Renee will contact Mariellen/Darlene to request them to send out an email blast to their mailing lists in order to generate more interest for the upcoming Seminar on Succession Planning.
Treasurer’s Report-Rebecca Spitsbergen
Rebecca stated the current balance of the Checking Account is $8434.84 and distributed copies of the Checking Account balance of $8,669.53 as of 3/31/08.
Rebecca distributed copies of the Proposed 2008 FHRA Budget. The Board discussed changing amounts in the area of Seminars since only offering one seminar for 2008.
Rebecca discussed completing the 990-N since the new requirement from SHRM National; the 990-N form is now required to be filed for all tax-exempt entities. In the past, small tax-exempt groups with annual gross receipts of $25,000 or less were not required to file. When she attempted to file the 990-N e-postcard she had to reregister our FEIN from a business only number to a tax exempt organization-the 501(c)3 exempt status. It will take the IRS 8 weeks to update the information in the system at which point she can file the 990-N e-postcard. Since this new, we will have until December 31 to complete this process.
Legislative Report-Chava Case
Chava Case was unable to attend the Board meeting.
Chava sent Judi information for the Legislative report. Chava is still trying to get a Governmental Affairs Speaker.
Old Business
Judi has volunteered to represent the chapter for the State Conference Committee. The State Conference will be held on September 25th and 26th in Casper.
Judi will talk to Nancy about attending the Leadership Conference in Washington D.C.
Judi will be attending on behalf of State Council.
State Leadership will be the day before the State Conference in Casper, September 24th. LaShonne will be in charge and anyone on the Board is welcome to attend.
Judi requested any quotes for Sue Meisinger since she is retiring at the end of June.
Foundation-Rebecca Spitsbergen
Rebecca stated that she received all of the DVD’s and articles for scholarships.
New Business
Superior Chapter for 2007 awarded to our local chapter. Judi received documents for a press release. Judi will forward to Angi at the Chamber in hopes of getting the information displayed on the Chamber website especially the Members on the Move link since that link is popular with users. Judi will request displaying the press release with The Wyoming Tribune-Eagle in the Business news section of the newspaper. Andrea will check with Shelli Stewart for additional contact information on distributing the press release. Andrea will also display information on our website. Chava can promote this honor in the upcoming Newsletter.
Adjournment
Next Board meeting will be on May 22 at 8:00am at The Egg & I.
The meeting adjourned at 12:35 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Andrea Hixon
FHRA Secretary 2008
