Board of Directors Meeting Minutes 04.16.09
Frontier Human Resource Association
Minutes of Board Meeting
April 16, 2009
The meeting came to order at 3:25 p.m. at The City of Cheyenne located at 2101 O’Neil Avenue in Room 208.
Six members were present at the meeting: Nancy Thayer, President; Chava Case, President-Elect; Andrea Hixon, Secretary; Renee Ashworth, Treasurer & Membership Chair; Judi Just, State Council Director; Janet Tilton, Workforce & Diversity Chair.
Old Business-
State Conference Update-
Judi stated the State Conference Committee has narrowed down speaker for the conference since they received so many responses due to the economy. Some of the speakers are:
Johnny Campbell
Rich Hartwath
Mona Pearl
Sherrie Doke
Brad Cave
Laura Sundraup
Michael Basinger
Jan Felton
Steve Gililand-Keynote Speaker
Eric Peterson
Pam Greene
They have received the check from DWS for sponsorship with verbal commitments from University of Phoenix for a sponsorship and Linda Anguish with HR Institute as a sponsor/vendor.
Items still in need are flash drives, water bottles, and bags.
The Mayor’s Council on Disabilities has signed up for a workshop.
Rebecca has an idea to utilize a travel agent for all the travel arrangements in hopes to get a free trip to Las Vegas to utilize as a Door Prize.
A decision was made on the fundraiser for the Wyoming Business Leadership Network to have all chapters create a gourmet basket to raffle with 100% of the proceeds to benefit the entire state because not every area has the Festival of Trees event.
Programs-
Chava still has June and November open.
Chava asked the opinion of the board of whether or not to have a ½ day seminar due to the lack of attendance at the recent regular meetings. The board discussed previous successes with morning seminars with a continental breakfast. Chava has checked with Renee about requesting an Express speaker presentation in June so we would be looking at splitting the cost of travel expenses. Other considerations, budgets are strapped so do we still want to do ½ days this year? Chava mentioned sending out a Monkey Survey to get the Members’ feedback on their preference. Judi had an idea of having a CEO panel with questions of what they want from HR. Also, Judi mentioned doing this as a statewide initiative and getting everyone to share information in September at the Conference. Good questions and bringing in CEO’s/Upper Level Management would be a must for success.
New Business-
Chair Openings Status-The board discussed the need to offer regular legislative updates at meetings or continued in the newsletter. Chava will contact John Lyttle to discuss the option of him announcing the updates at the monthly meetings. Alethea Wright has volunteered to do Newsletter and the Membership Chair is still open. Nancy had a student contact her concerning their interest in FHRA. This would be a great idea since students don’t have to pay dues. Nancy will speak with Trina Moskalik on her interest to be a Membership Chair. Allen Andrews wasn’t interested in the HRCI Chair position, so that is still open.
Wyoming SHRM-Judi received job descriptions from Hawaii and after reviewing them she still has reservations about this working for Wyoming. She believes Hawaii had more At Large members. Wyoming has 220 Members at Large. Judi has left the decision up to Heather Doke since she is Chair of the new initiative. It is a great idea, but without the adequate funds we would have to find lots of volunteers. Judi can’t see how anyone would have the time to take on the additional job duties especially with our current increased workloads during these economic times. The board discussed the benefit of better communication values for rural areas.
Oregon made $144,000 profit last year off their Conference. So, if we could start making large profits then it may be feasible but our state doesn’t have the population that other states have.
May Program Date (possible change)-Nancy received a contract from the Holiday Inn for the May meeting with a date of May 19th. Nancy will check with them to verify the date since we had re-arranged our meeting to the 26th due to the Holiday Inn not having a room for us due to conferences.
New Member Packet-Nancy mentioned utilizing the new member packet again. The board discussed that it was so pricey and not many members utilized the packet. Andrea will try to find a place on the website to add the forms that would be a benefit to new members.
HR Study Group-Renee purchased and brought the SHRM Learning System to the meeting. The board discussed the HR Study Group and decided the 1st Study Group would be on Thursday, April 30th from 5pm-7pm at Western States Learning Corporation. Janet Tilton volunteered to facilitate the group on a weekly basis. The next test cycle is around June 30th with the next cycle at the end of the year. The board discussed having a sign up sheet at the April FHRA meeting and attendees must be members of FHRA. The total cost for the Learning System was $668.
Membership Committee Chair-Renee Ashworth
Renee has invited the following to an FHRA meeting or to become an FHRA member:
Terese Becker with Halladay Motors
Lisa Taylor with Spradley-Barr
Sharon Kelsey with Magic City Enterprises
Cindy Butler with Access Outsourcing
Gary with Rieman Construction
Secretary Report-Andrea Hixon
Andrea still has an outstanding invoice for Becki Hunter from the January meeting. Andrea stated that we have a total of 47 FHRA members so far this year.
Treasurer Report-Renee Ashworth
Renee stated that we have $10,800 in the budget.
Diversity & Workforce Readiness-Janet Tilton & Brenda Birkle
Janet discussed a proposal that they, Janet and Brenda, prepared an FHRA Initiative on “Diversity and Electronic Communication Etiquette ‘Tech/ET’ Across the Ages. The goal is for young workers to gain soft skill and older workers to become more familiar with technology by developing materials, partner with Workforce Services and Experience Works, and connect with employers. Janet will email the entire proposal out to board members.
Adjournment
Next board meeting will be on May 21st at 3:00pm in Room 208 at the City of Cheyenne located at 2102 O’Neil Avenue.
The meeting adjourned at 4:45 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Andrea Hixon
Secretary 2009
